Announcing the winner of the Frontier Essay Contest

Congratulations to Casey Aimer!

Hello all,

You may remember that back in March, I announced a new writing contest hosted by Soft Star: The Frontier Essay Contest. The contest was open to a wide range of nonfiction submissions, from essays to reviews to narrative nonfiction.

I am pleased to announce that the winner of the Frontier Essay Contest is

Casey Aimer

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Casey’s winning essay, “The Necessity of Anarchistic Transhumanism,” was published in Soft Star online back in April, and will also appear in the upcoming print edition of Issue Five: Frontier. If you missed it, you can read it here:

The essay really resonated with the Soft Star staff, and was even picked up as a discussion topic by the Electric Sheep Speculative Fiction Discussion Group!

Casey holds master’s degrees in both poetry and publishing. He works for a non-profit in D.C. publishing science research articles and is co-founder of Radon Journal, an anarchist science fiction semiprozine. His work has been featured in Apparition Lit, Star*Line, Worlds of IF, and nominated for both the Rhysling Award and Pushcart Prize. An SFPA and SFWA member, find him on Bluesky @caseyaimer.bsky.social and on Chill Subs at thecaseyaimer.

Congratulations again to Casey, and a big thank you to all of the contest participants. The staff and I had a blast reading more nonfiction submissions this time around, and I hope to host similar essay contests in the future.

Until next time,

Miranda