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Calling all #scifi writers!! Do you have a self published first in series or standalone book that's at least 40k words long? Book should be published by Dec 7, 2026. Enter the SPSFC!

Open for entries now

#sciencefiction @spsfc.bsky.social #spsfc6 🪐📚 #booksky #writersky

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SPSFC 6 Now Accepting Entries
The sixth Self-Published Science Fiction Competition (SPSFC) is now open for entries. Use this link to submit a book into the contest: SPSFC 6 Author Entry Form The link uses Google Forms and requi…
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November 2, 2026 at 3:04 PM
drafoxter.bsky.social
Do you have a self published Sci Fi book? 100% human made with at least 40,000 words? First book in a series and written in English? Will it be published maximum Dec 1st 2026?

Signups for the Spsfc 6 are now open. Give it a shot!
November 3, 2026 at 4:43 AM
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SPSFC 6 is open for submissions, and pretty much every author of self-published Sci-Fi who would see this post is basically a ringer who would be almost guaranteed to at least hit the semifinals.
SPSFC 6 Now Accepting Entries
The sixth Self-Published Science Fiction Competition (SPSFC) is now open for entries. Use this link to submit a book into the contest: SPSFC 6 Author Entry Form The link uses Google Forms and requi…
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November 2, 2026 at 3:05 PM
spsfc.bsky.social
The sixth Self-Published Science Fiction Competition has begun taking entries. Here are the details on how to enter your novel:

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If you're not submitting a book, join us as a judge:

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That's a request not an order. Although ... #SPSFC
A human figure floats outside a tunnel filled with light and green electric sparks. The edges look like a spacecraft. The digital photomontage Nave Madre (Mothership) was created in 2008 by Eugenio Azzola.
November 2, 2026 at 5:04 PM
whirloglyphics.bsky.social
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I just learned about this competition, and thought y'all might find it fascinating. Or maybe you wanna throw your hat in the ring!

#booksky #diversebooksky #readersky
Judges Wanted for SPSFC 6
The sixth Self-Published Science Fiction Competition (SPSFC) is about to get underway. Book submissions will be taken beginning on Sunday November 1, 2026, and ending on Monday Nov. 30, 2026 at the…
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October 28, 2026 at 8:45 AM
thefoliobridge.bsky.social
The SPSFC is such a fantastic contest for giving self-published sci-fi the spotlight and reach it deserves! Competitions like this are huge for indie discoverability. Are you entering a title this round, or helping spread the word for the community?
November 2, 2026 at 4:00 PM
geektells.bsky.social
Hey, do you like SciFi? Be a judge in next year's SPSFC 6! Readers, reviewers, and writers, this is your chance to make a significant contribution to the SciFi community!
spsfc.bsky.social The Self-Published Science Fiction Competition @spsfc.bsky.social · 7d
We're looking for volunteers to help us judge the sixth Self-Published Science Fiction Competition.

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If you're not entering a novel in the contest when that opens on Nov. 1, we'd love you to join one of our judging teams. #SPSFC
The Second Life art installation Planet by Cica Ghost photographed by Teresa Mahler. A trio of yellow aliens with wide snouts shaped like Hershey's Kisses gaze around their alien landscape with small creatures resembling jellyfish along the ground and colorful lines high above resembling the ocean surface from below.
October 28, 2026 at 3:02 AM
spsfc.bsky.social
For our next contest that begins taking books on Nov. 1, the Self-Published Science Fiction Competition is adding a rule. #SPSFC

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SPSFC Will Not Allow AI Covers
The Self-Published Science Fiction Competition (SPSFC) has a long-standing rule against the submission of AI-authored books to the contest. For the next SPSFC that will begin taking books on Novemb…
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October 23, 2026 at 8:52 PM
spsfc.bsky.social
We're looking for volunteers to help us judge the sixth Self-Published Science Fiction Competition.

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If you're not entering a novel in the contest when that opens on Nov. 1, we'd love you to join one of our judging teams. #SPSFC
The Second Life art installation Planet by Cica Ghost photographed by Teresa Mahler. A trio of yellow aliens with wide snouts shaped like Hershey's Kisses gaze around their alien landscape with small creatures resembling jellyfish along the ground and colorful lines high above resembling the ocean surface from below.
October 26, 2026 at 6:34 PM
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(1) SPSFC BANS ENTRIES WITH AI COVERS. [Item by Rogers Cadenhead.] The Self-Published Science Fiction Competition has added a rule against AI covers that takes effect before the SPSFC begins taking…
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October 24, 2026 at 1:04 AM
hiddenscifi.bsky.social
The Self-Published Science Fiction Competition will bar AI-generated covers as well as AI-authored books from its next round, opening Nov. 1. Entrants will be asked to name their cover artist. https://spsfc.space/2026/10/23/spsfc-will-not-allow-ai-covers/ #SciFi #Books
SPSFC Will Not Allow AI Covers
The Self-Published Science Fiction Competition (SPSFC) has a long-standing rule against the submission of AI-authored books to the contest. For the next SPSFC that will begin taking books on Novemb…
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October 24, 2026 at 3:25 AM
lizzieblackwood.bsky.social
✨🌟✨Rochester, NY!✨🌟✨

If you're in the area, I'll be hosting my first in-person author event at Yellow Warbler Books on November 12th!

Join me and @eirabrand.com, Shepard DiStasio, @tallimorgan.bsky.social, and @olinj.bsky.social as we talk about MONSTERS.
November 2, 2026 at 4:29 PM
ormakal.bsky.social
@nikkinull.bsky.social 's SPSFC winner, Our Simulated Selves. Amazing book!

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October 23, 2026 at 3:10 PM
davedobson.bsky.social
My novel, Kenai, which won the SPSFC indie sci-fi competition out of 221 entries, is free as an ebook until October 24th. It's a military sci-fi story about a former space marine with a discredited past. See below for more.

Grab a copy on me, and enjoy!
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Book cover for Kenai by Dave Dobson. Shows Jess Amiko, a former space marine, wearing an armored suit, holding a blaster pistol, and facing the sun on an alien landscape.
October 20, 2026 at 3:35 PM
tobbsjournal.bsky.social
Simon Kewin is the author of several short story collections. His novel Dead Star was an SPSFC award semi-finalist and his short story #buttonsinweirdplaces was nominated for a Utopia award.
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The Day the Books Left
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October 15, 2026 at 2:57 AM
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📋 Belatedly realised that I hadn’t created an #SPSFC5 Finalists Reading Challenge over on The #StoryGraph for this year’s set 🫢

Have just fixed that, live on TSG now, joining challenges covering all previous #SPSFC rounds.

📚🚀 #SciFiBooks 🪐📚💙 #BookSky #ReaderSky 🦋
October 11, 2026 at 9:10 AM
hiddenscifi.bsky.social
Nikki Null's Our Simulated Selves won the 2026 Self-Published Science Fiction Competition. Ren uploads his mind into a simulation; then everyone but him and his crush vanishes. https://spsfc.space/2026/10/08/the-spsfc-5-winner-is/ #SciFi #Books
The SPSFC 5 Winner Is …
Ten months ago, the five teams of the Self-Published Science Fiction Competition (SPSFC) received 124 books submitted by authors to the contest. We sampled them in the scout phase, chose the books …
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October 9, 2026 at 3:31 PM
jennelikejennay.bsky.social
I was kinda devastated when I washed out of the SPSFC at the semifinalist stage. But I told myself, "I won't be mad, provided my favorite book wins. This is a book that's good enough I won't feel even a little bit bad losing to it."

Good news! It did!

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The SPSFC 5 Winner Is …
Ten months ago, the five teams of the Self-Published Science Fiction Competition (SPSFC) received 124 books submitted by authors to the contest. We sampled them in the scout phase, chose the books …
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October 9, 2026 at 12:31 AM
nikkinull.bsky.social
!!!

My endless thanks to the incredible teams of SPSFC judges, to my readers, and to everyone else who helped my strange debut novel find its place. This is beyond surreal. Thank you, thank you, thank you. 💟
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The winner of the fifth Self-Published Science Fiction Competition (SPSFC) is Our Simulated Selves by @nikkinull.bsky.social. “[T]his book could legitimately help a lot of people understand themselves.” — SPSFC 4 winner Wick Welker

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The cover of Nikki Null's science fiction novel Our Simulated Selves, which depicts two abstract figures high above a vast metropolis. The city is real and the people are rendered as ASCII art characters. A portal of rectangles also depicted as ASCII is below them.
October 9, 2026 at 12:01 AM
spsfc.bsky.social
The winner of the fifth Self-Published Science Fiction Competition (SPSFC) is Our Simulated Selves by @nikkinull.bsky.social. “[T]his book could legitimately help a lot of people understand themselves.” — SPSFC 4 winner Wick Welker

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The cover of Nikki Null's science fiction novel Our Simulated Selves, which depicts two abstract figures high above a vast metropolis. The city is real and the people are rendered as ASCII art characters. A portal of rectangles also depicted as ASCII is below them.
October 8, 2026 at 10:04 PM
spsfc.bsky.social
The winner announcement for SPSFC 5 is coming today and being written as we speak. Hold all calls. Clear your calendars.
October 8, 2026 at 2:58 PM
geektells.bsky.social
Congrats to the SPSFC 5 winner, Our Simulated Selves by Nikki Null!

And congrats to the other finalists in this hard fought competition.

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The SPSFC 5 Winner Is …
Ten months ago, the five teams of the Self-Published Science Fiction Competition (SPSFC) received 124 books submitted by authors to the contest. We sampled them in the scout phase, chose the books …
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October 8, 2026 at 10:16 PM
spsfc.bsky.social
Fourth place in the fifth Self-Published Science Fiction Competition (SPSFC) goes to Artificial Selection by Marianne Pickles. A cozy mystery in a hopeful climate apocalypse starring a benevolent AI and the Head of Awkward Questions.

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The cover of Marianne Pickles' science fiction novel Artificial Selection, which depicts a stylized sun rising or setting in front of a circular pattern of blue objects and the orange silhoette of a running figure with a ponytail.
October 8, 2026 at 9:51 PM
spsfc.bsky.social
Fifth place in the fifth Self-Published Science Fiction Competition (SPSFC) goes to FrostByte by N.S. Chaudhury. A Desi cyberpunk novel of illegal resurrection. Judge: "Ngl, I adored this book."

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The cover of N.S. Chaudhury's science fiction novel FrostByte, which depicts a woman in a cyberpunk city with hair that is blond and red, the latter appearing digital like a holographic effect. She has henna patterns on her hands and is holding a plant.
October 8, 2026 at 9:50 PM
spsfc.bsky.social
Third place in the fifth Self-Published Science Fiction Competition (SPSFC) goes to Generations by @noamj.bsky.social. A "slow-burn conspiracy theory space opera" on a generation ship 80 percent of the way to a new home.

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The cover of Noam Josephides' science fiction novel Generations, which depicts a woman in silhouette looking away out of a round portal of what may be a spaceship. The passage is dark with soft orange light and blue shines in from the portal.
October 8, 2026 at 9:56 PM