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A writers contest sponsored by [[ISFiC]] and held in conjunction with [[Windycon]] since 1986, although there are many years when no winner has been declared.  The contest is open to unpublished authors who live in Illinois, an adjacent state plus Michigan or Ohio, or is a member of Windycon. 

For many years, the prize included a membership in Windycon, a hotel room at the convention, publication in the con's [[program book]], and a gold coin, although the latter has more recently been replaced with a cash prize.

The contest is judged by various authors and editors, who have included [[Elizabeth Anne Hull]], [[Martin H. Greenberg]], [[Bill Fawcett]], [[Jody Lynn Nye]], [[John Helfers]], [[Roland Green]], [[Algis Budrys]], and [[Frederik Pohl]] among others.

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 Year || Winner || Work 
1986 ||[[Richard Chwedyk]] ||"Getting Along with Larga" 
1987 ||[[Eugenia M. Hayden]] ||"The Library" 
1988 ||[[Richard Chwedyk]] ||"A Man Makes a Machine" (This story was later published in ''[[Amazing Stories]]'') 
1989 ||colspan="2"| No Award 
1990 ||[[Robin Leigh Michaels]] ||"Ailin's Castle" 
1991 ||[[Vanessa Crouther]] ||"Soul to Take" 
1992 ||[[Sheila Insley]] ||"Make-Up Magic" 
1993 ||[[C. T. Fluhr]] ||"Dead Chute" 
1994 ||[[Emmett Gard Pittman]] ||"Packers" 
1995 ||[[William McMahon]] ||"In Memoriam" 
1996 ||[[C. T. Fluhr]] ||"All Through the House" 
1997 ||[[David W. Crawford]] ||"Little Girl Lost" 
1998 ||[[Susan L. Wachowski]] ||"Grandpa" 
1999 ||[[Sharon L. Nelson]] ||"Passing Through" 
2000 ||colspan="2"| No Award 
2001 ||colspan="2"| No Award 
2002 ||colspan="2"| No Award 
2003 ||[[John D. Nikitow]] ||"Trueworth" 
2004 ||[[Chris Krolczyk]] ||"Orbital One" 
2005 ||colspan="2"| No Award 
2006 ||[[P. R. Gomez]] ||"Ad Alienos" 
2007 ||[[Joe McCauley]] ||"Ivan and the Plate of Fried Chicken" 
2008 ||colspan="2"| No Award 
2009 ||[[John M. Cowan]] ||"Oracle" 
2010 ||[[Mary Mascari]] ||"Lost and Found" 
2011 ||[[Mary Mascari]] ||"The Pod" 
2012 ||colspan="2"| No Award 
2013 ||[[Liz A. Vogel]] ||"Windy van Hooten's Was Never Like This" 
2014 ||[[Siobhan Duffy]] ||"Under the Hill" 
2015 ||[[M. Aruguete]] ||"Catamount" 
2016 ||[[Siobhan Duffy]] ||"The Furrier" 
2017 ||colspan="2"| No Award 
2018 ||colspan="2"| No Award 
2019 ||[[John M. Cowan]] ||"Dead Man Stalking" 
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{{award | start=1986 | website=https://www.isfic.org/Winners.asp}}
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