SpaceNet Award 2023/2024 starts - motto: "Stone"

The application phase for the SpaceNet Award picture and short story competition initiated by Munich-based SpaceNet AG is now open. Until 18 February 2024, newcomers, professional authors and photographers can submit their best stories and images on the topic of "stone" online at www.spacenet-award.deto submit. The genre is open; image and text creators are free to interpret and shape the theme. The prerequisite is that the submitted works are previously unpublished. The expert jury is made up of author Hannelore Koch, Gabriele Lechner, the initiator of the Camgaroo Award, and art and design PR expert Simone Nickl. The 6th SpaceNet Award will be presented at a ceremony in summer 2024. The first places in the short story and photo categories will each win 2,500 euros. 200 euros will be awarded to second and third place in both categories, as well as the Young Talent Award, for which new talents can apply. The best 30 stories and pictures will be published in a book that will be available in bookshops.

"It makes us proud that the SpaceNet Award has established itself among the German literature and photography prizes and that we have been able to honour incredible stories and impressive images for ten years," says Sebastian von Bomhard, SpaceNet Board Member and initiator of the SpaceNet Award.

Facts about the SpaceNet Award:

• The competition starts on 10 November 2023.
• The closing date for applications is 18 February2024.
• Participation is exclusively online by uploading a previously unpublished short story in German with a maximum of 10,000 characters or a previously unpublished photo with a minimum resolution of 5 megapixels. https://spacenet-award.space.net/mitmachen
• The best short story and the best photo will each receive prize money of 2,500 euros, while the second and third prizes in both categories and the young talent prize will each receive 200 euros.
• The prizes will be awarded at a gala ceremony in Munich in summer 2024.
• The 30 best short stories and images will be published in a book.

SpaceNet Verlag has published the following so far

• "Y - stories and pictures", 2022
• "Pause - stories and pictures", 2020
• "25 years of the internet in Germany: a quarter of a century of new territory", 2019
• "Quintessenz - stories and pictures", 2018
• "What works when nothing works? - Stories and images", 2016
• "On grounding the cloud - stories and images", 2014
• "World Wide What? Anecdotes and bizarre stories from the early days of the internet in Germany", 2009

You can find an overview here

About the jury (excerpt)

Simone Nickl does press and public relations work in the art and design sector - for clients such as Artcurial, Artek, Munich Creative Business Week, etc. The PR expert also plans and organises networking and press events. Her path to NICKL PR led from an apprenticeship as a sculptor to film and theatre, from there to events for business and culture - and from there directly into communications. www. nickl-pr.de

Gabriele Lechner is Managing Director of the full-service agency LechnerMedia and the film production and distribution company Camgaroo Productions GmbH. The Camgaroo Award, which she initiated and organises, and the camgaroo film summit are not only an important networking and educational platform for independent and up-and-coming filmmakers, but also offer young filmmakers a stage to make their innovative film projects visible. With Camgaroo Productions GmbH, film projects for cinema and TV, such as the Bavarian western "Hopfen, Malz und Blei", are realised and films, such as the current exciting documentary "Bildungsgang", are brought to cinemas. The best nominated films by young talents are presented in the filmrebell.tv media centre. www. lechner.de - www.camgaroo.com - www.camgaroo-productions.de - www.filmrebell.tv

Hannelore Koch lives and works near Munich. She studied English and German language and literature at the LMU in the Bavarian capital. In her spare time, she is a passionate reader of crime and thriller novels, children's and young adult books, which she also stages as plays in her capacity as a theatre teacher. Her first publication was a historical text for the anthology "Untold Stories - Memories from the Second World War", in which she describes the fate of a relative and her escape from Silesia. Other short crime novels have been published in anthologies. She is currently working on a read-aloud book for children on the subject of climate change and a children's crime novel with animal investigators, including an Alaskan Malamute and a black tomcat from Moldova that was flown to Munich in a handbag. Hannelore Koch is a member of the Mörderische Schwestern and the Bundesverband junger Autoren.