Dave Jilk’s Epoch wins Colorado Authors League Science Fiction Award for 2025.

On July 13, 2025, the Colorado Authors League (CAL) awarded its prize in Science Fiction to Dave Jilk’s Epoch: A Poetic Psy-Phi Saga. This 2024 epic poem, with its diverse forms and a non-human heroic protagonist, was selected over other works written in the conventional science fiction prose novel format. Founded as an organization of professional writers, CAL has recognized works by Colorado-based authors across multiple categories and genres since 1942.

See Frederick Turner’s reflections on Epoch on the World Epics website: https://edblogs.columbia.edu/worldepics/project/jilk-epoch-a-poetic-psy-phi-saga/