Our Judges

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Head judge Noel Chidwick

Noel Chidwick is co-founder, Editor-in-chief and Editor of Shoreline of Infinity Science Fiction Magazine and other science fictional happenings. He’s been reading science fiction since the early 70s and has found no reason to stop.

He’s a singer-songwriter with Painted Ocean, a writer and occasional playwright, and his favourite hobby is to approach a button and wonder, “What happens if I press this?” and then press it.

Noel will judge the stories in both categories.

About Shoreline of Infinity

Shoreline of Infinity is Scotland’s award-winning magazine for science fiction writing. Since its first issue in July 2015, Shoreline has published dozens stories, poems and pieces of art over 16 issues. In 2018 the British Fantasy Society recognized the Shoreline team for their hard work with the Award for best magazine/periodical.

Noel with the British Fantasy Society Award

Lorraine Wilson

A conservation scientist and third-culture Scot, Lorraine lives by the sea writing speculative fiction influenced by folklore and the wilderness. She is the award winning author of several books, most recently The Last To Drown and We Are All Ghosts In The Forest.

Simon Spanton

Simon Spanton is a commissioning editor for Angry Robot Books. He has worked as a commissioning editor, editorial director and associate publisher for more than thirty years (good grief), including twenty years at Gollancz. He has published both fiction and non-fiction but the great majority of his work has been in the SFF&H genres where he has worked with Sunday Times bestsellers and winners of the Arthur C. Clarke, Philip K. Dick, BSFA and British Fantasy Awards. He lives in Edinburgh and his taste in writing is probably more weird than makes strict commercial sense.