Premio Oltrecosmo
I was the ideator and organizer, together with Marco Guasti, of Premio Oltrecosmo, a science fiction literary contest for Italian short stories, which was quite peculiar in a few ways. Participation was completely free of charge, the jury extremely qualified, and the best ten short stories got to be published on a paper anthology on Lulu.com.
All of this was made even more interesting by our close collaboration with the OpenOffice.org Free Software Community in spreading the ODT (Open Document Text) format, and by the media attention that this initiative seems to have drawn in the last few months — I was even interviewed on national radio station Radio Montecarlo not long ago.
Unfortunately, studying, working and all my other projects already take up way too much of my time, which is why the contest was discontinued at the end of its third edition.
Short Stories
By clicking here, you can read some of the science fiction short stories that I wrote a few years ago, downloadable in PDF format. There's a short comment/synopsis along with each story. As you can see, they're all in Italian... who knows, maybe one day I'll translate some of my favourites (which, lucky me, are also the shortest!).
Miscellanea
Apart from the Premio Oltrecosmo, I'm also promoting the it-alt.arti.scrivere.fantascienza newsgroup, a meeting point for sf fans, but most of all for sf wannabe writers, which can post there their works and see them commented and evaluated by other users.
Finally, I also maintain Scrivere la fantascienza (Writing Science Fiction), a small blog which is meant to be a quick reference for science fiction writers and describes nuts and bolts of literary competitions of the genre. I seldom update it, but it's somehow managed to reach a decent visibility on the Web.
