Congratulations to the Top Manuscripts! This has been another awesome year of reading, scoring, and discovery during the Aurora Contest. Our hardworking judges carefully considered hundreds of manuscripts over September…
The 2026 Aurora Contest Names Contenders for Round 2 Hundreds enter the Aurora Contest each year, but only a fraction of entering authors emerge at the head of the pack…
Congratulations to the 2026 Realm Award Winners! Realm Awards Book of the Year The Unraveling of Emlyn DuLaine Lindsay A. Franklin, published by Enclave Escape Winners by media type, genre,…
This Train is About to Leave the Station!The In-Person Realm Makers Conference and Expo has a way of racing toward us all faster than we could ever imagine. With our…
Congratulations to the Realm Award Finalists for 2026 The Realm Awards offer Christian authors of speculative novels, graphic novels, audio, and short fiction an incredible opportunity to compete in an…
The Realm Award Semi-Finalist 2026 Congratulations to the works that have advanced to the semi-final round of the Realm Awards!Short FictionShort StoriesAraluen, Caroline GuajardoIn the Shadow of Hope, Ruth Anne…
Congratulations to the Top Manuscripts! The sheer number of manuscripts we received this year necessitated a third round of judging before we could arrive at this final list of books…
The field of quality excerpts in this year's Aurora Contest has been tough for our committee to whittle down! Because our larger categories had so many great entries, we're sending…
The First Batch of Results are In! We at Realm Makers are excited how the Aurora Contest for unpublished authors has grown this year. Our judges had a huge crop…