The 2009 competition was judged by novelists and short story writers Sarah Hall (writer), M. John Harrison and Nicholas Royle.
M. John Harrison (born 1945), British author of science fiction, fantasy and literary fiction
Viriconium is a fictional city created by M. John Harrison and also the name of the cycle of novels and stories set in and around it.
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