The Codex Writers’ Group also known as Codex is an online community of active speculative fiction writers. Codex was created in January 2004. The Codex Writers’ Group won the 2021 Locus Special Award.

History and membership requirements

Codex was created in January 2004 by Quinn Reid, a member of Orson Scott Card's 2001 Literary Boot Camp. The focus of the group is on writers in the early stages of their careers. The forum uses the phrase 'neo-pro', which they define as "writers who've had at least one professional publication and/or participated in one of the top by-audition-only workshops, but who have not yet sold a great many stories or a number of books.".

Notable Codexians

The following Codexians have won major awards and/or have books on shelves. A more comprehensive listing of publications by Codex Writers can be found at th
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* Steve Bein, author of the "Fated Blades" serie

* John Brown, author of the ''Dark God'' series ummer 2009*

Tobias S. Buckell Tobias S. Buckell (born 1979) is a New York Times Bestselling author and World Fantasy Award winner born in the Caribbean. He grew up in Grenada and spent time in the British and US Virgin Islands, which influence much of his work. His novels and ...

, author of ''Crystal Rain'', ''Ragamuffin'', and ''

Sly Mongoose ''Sly Mongoose'' is the third science fiction novel of Caribbean writer Tobias S. Buckell. The novel is a standalone but is set in the same universe as Buckell's novels '' Crystal Rain'' and ''Ragamuffin Ragamuffin or Raggamuffin may refer t ...

'' * Curtis Chen, author of ''Waypoint Kangaroo'' and ''Kangaroo Too'' * Aliette de Bodard, author of the Obsidian and Blood books, Nebula and Locus Award winner. * Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki, author of the Nommo-winning "The Witching Hour" and editor of Dominion: An Anthology of Speculative Fiction From Africa and the African Diaspora, a British Fantasy Award winner * Nancy Fulda, creator o
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David Macinnis Gill David Macinnis Gill is an American author who writes for young adults. Career Gill began his writing career by publishing short stories in small magazines, including ''The Crescent Review'' and ''Writer's Forum.'' In 2005, Scarecrow Press publis ...

, author of '' InvisibleSun'', '' Black Hole Sun'', and '' Soul Enchilada'' *

A. T. Greenblatt Aliza T. Greenblatt is an American mechanical engineer and author of speculative fiction who writes as A. T. Greenblatt.Greenblatt, A. T.About" Accessed Sep. 4, 2020 to avoid confusion with poet Aliza Greenblatt. Life Greenblatt attended the Scho ...

, author of the Hugo-winning novelette "Burn or the Episodic Life of Sam Wells as Super" and the Nebula-winning short story "Give the Family My Love," among other awards and nominations *

Jim C. Hines Jim C. Hines (born April 15, 1974) is an American fantasy and science fiction writer. Life and work Hines was a volunteer crisis counselor in East Lansing and worked as the Male Outreach Coordinator for the Michigan State University, MSU Safe ...

, author of the ''Goblin Quest'' series * Elaine Isaak, author of ''The Singer's Crown'' and ''The Eunuch's Heir'' *

José Pablo Iriarte José Pablo Iriarte is a Cuban American author of children's fiction, science fiction, and fantasy, best known for the Nebula Award and James Tiptree Award-nominated short novelette "The Substance of My Lives, the Accidents of Our Births.” Pe ...

, author of Nebula Award-nominated short story "Proof by Induction" and Nebula Award- and James Tiptree Award-nominated novelette "The Substance of My Lives, the Accidents of Our Births” * Debra Jess, author of ''Thunder City'', ''Heroes of Andromeda'', and ''Dream of My Soul'' * Sharon Joss, author of the ''Hand of Fate'' series and ''Stars That Make Dark Heaven Light'' *

Sara King Sara J. King (born 1982) is an Alaskan Fantasy writer residing in the Alaska Bush. She is currently working on her 11th novel, part of the "After Earth" series History Sara King was born in Fairbanks, Alaska, in 1982. She has remained an Ala ...

, author of the "After Earth" series * Alethea Kontis, NYTimes bestselling author of ''The Dark-Hunter Companion'',
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' and ''Beauty & Dynamite'' * Ken Liu, author of " The Paper Menagerie," which won the

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, the Hugo and the World Fantasy Awards, and ''The Grace of Kings'' and translator of '' The Three-Body Problem'' * James Maxey, author of the ''Bitterwood'' series * Sarah Pinsker, Nebula award-winning author of ''

A Song for a New Day ''A Song for a New Day'' is a science fiction novel by American writer Sarah Pinsker, first published in trade paperback and ebook by Berkley Books in September 2019. The first British edition was issued in hardcover and ebook by Ad Astra/Head of ...

'' and the Nebula- and Hugo-winning "Two Truths and a Lie", among other award-nominated and -winning novelettes, novellas, and short stories * Judson Roberts, author of the ''Strongbow Saga'' series *

Diana Rowland Diana Rowland is an urban fantasy writer and is best known for her Kara Gillian Series and White Trash Zombie Series. She has worked as a bartender, a blackjack dealer, a pit boss, a street cop, a detective, a computer forensics specialist, a c ...

, author of the ''Demon'' series (Mark of the Demon antam, June 2009 Blood of the Demon antam, February 2010 Secrets of the Demon AW, January 2011 and the ''White Trash Zombie'' series AW 2011*

Lawrence M. Schoen Lawrence M. Schoen (born July 27, 1959) is an American author, publisher, psychologist, hypnotist, and expert in the Klingon language. Biography Schoen was born in Chicago, Illinois, but his family moved to Southern California when he was 18 mo ...

, author of the ''Amazing Conroy'' series of stories, and founder of the Klingon Language Institute * Ken Scholes, author of ''The Psalms of Isaak'' series an 2009*

Edmund R. Schubert Edmund R. Schubert is an American author and editor best known for his work in the fields of science fiction and fantasy, though some of his short stories are mysteries, including one that was a preliminary nominee for an Edgar Award in 2006 for ...

, editor of '' Orson Scott Card's InterGalactic Medicine Show'' ( IGMS), and ''How To Write Magical Words: A Writer's Companion'' * Elsa Sjunneson, editor of ''Disabled People Destroy Science Fiction'', issue 24 of ''Uncanny Magazine'', which won the 2019 Hugo Award for Best Semiprozine and the 2019 Aurora Award for Best Related Work and nominee for the 2019 Nebula Award for Best Game Writing for the ''Fate Accessibility Toolkit'' *

Caroline M. Yoachim Caroline Mariko Yoachim is an author of speculative fiction who writes as Caroline M. Yoachim and Caroline Yoachim.Yoachim, Caroline M.Penguins, Robins, and Science Fiction. Essay in ''Lightspeed: People of Colo(u)r Destroy Science Fiction! Special ...

, author of multiple award-nominated works, including works nominated for the Nebula, among other awards Codexians whose work has been or will be published in the Writers of the Future anthologies include Stewart C Baker, Steve Bein, Aliette de Bodard, Matt Dovey, Scott Roberts, Eric James Stone, Ken Scholes, Diana Rowland, David Goldman, Sharon Joss, Michael Livingston, Floris M. Kleijne, Andrew Gudgel, Lon Prater, William Katz, Brad Beaulieu, Quinn Reid, Matt Champine, Tom Pendergrass, Robert Defendi, Joy Marchand (writing as Joy Remy), Matt Rotundo, Elise Stephens, and Jim Hines.

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External links

Codex Writers Group Website

World Map showing locations of Codex Members

Books written by members of Codex

Magazine articles written by members of Codex

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