Balticon Update - Crook Award

[Dale Arnold]

BSFS Announces Winner of Compton Crook Award 2022:
 

P. Djèlí Clark is the 2022 winner of the Compton Crook Award for his novel A Master of Djinn and has agreed to attend Balticon 56 in person. P. Djèlí Clark is the 40th annual winner of the award given for best first novel in the science fiction, fantasy, and horror genres by the Baltimore Science Fiction Society.

The award includes a framed award document and, for the novel's author, a check for $1,000.00 and an invitation to be the Compton Crook Guest of Honor at Balticon (the BSFS annual convention) for two years. Balticon this year will be held in Baltimore over Memorial Day weekend, May 27-30th in 2022. Details about this year’s Balticon can be found at www.balticon.org  Because Balticon was held online for the previous two years, this year’s Balticon will also include past Compton Crook winners Micaiah Johnson (2021), Arkady Martine (2020), and R.F. Kuang (2019).

The Award was named in memory of Towson State College Professor of Natural Sciences Compton Crook, who wrote under the name Stephen Tall and died in 1981. Professor Crook was active for many years in BSFS and was a staunch champion of new works in the fields eligible for the award. For more details about the award and how to submit your work visit http://www.bsfs.org/CCA/bsfsccnu2014.htm    BSFS thanks the authors and publishers who sent books for consideration. 

The Baltimore Science Fiction Society is a 501(c)(3), non-profit, charitable, literary and educational organization, dedicated to the promotion of, and an appreciation for, science fiction in all of its many forms.  BSFS was founded on January 5, 1963 and has been holding Balticon, the Maryland Regional Science Fiction Convention since 1967.