Two first prize winners will receive a personalized edition of:Ĭreate a two-dimensional visual artwork, such as a photograph, painting, or drawing that reflects your interpretation of the characters or scenes inspired by Ambergris by Jeff VanderMeer. 🍄 Ambergris Jacket Design by Rodrigo Corral ( Jacket Illustration by June Park ( Grand Prize winner will receive personalized edition of: Jeff VanderMeer will personally select one grand prize winner and two first prize winners. (Who could forget the Borne art contest, which resulted not just in spectacular entries and winners, but also one of the images even being selected to be the cover of the Chinese edition of Borne!) Through December 18th 2020, you can submit your own personal renderings of Ambergris.

Now you can chronicle Ambergris through art with your own imaginings, in what has become a tradition of reader renderings of VanderMeer’s work. Whether describing the intelligent mushroom folk known as the gray caps, the giant squid that swim in the River Moth, or a metropolis beset with fungi and inspired by Byzantine and Venetian design, VanderMeer has created an imaginary world full of sights both beautiful and sinister. There are stories within stories, mystery, mayhem, and a dark history that threatens to consume the city. Ambergris bristles with intellectual fervor and religious rivalries it thrives on cultural upheaval, and its politics are never short on intrigue, conspiracy, and even terror.

Signature Style: His perspective characters have a quality of Internal Monologue, with sentences blending together or starting in the middle of a sentence.More than twenty years ago, Jeff VanderMeer first introduced the world to the fictional city of Ambergris, a sprawling metropolis populated by artists and thieves, composers and murderers, geniuses and fools.

New Weird: Many of his works, such as the Ambergris series and Borne, fall into this genre.

Preceded by The Hoegbotton Guide to the Early History of Ambergris, by Duncan Shriek (1999), which is collected within City.City of Saints and Madmen: The Book of Ambergris (2001).Initially associated with the New Weird literary genre, he crossed over into mainstream success with his bestselling The Southern Reach Trilogy. Jeff VanderMeer is an American author, editor, and literary critic.

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