The third edition of the Future Literature Award has been announced recently at the Cuihua Litong Space in Xi'an. Among them, "The Lord of Secrets" created by the "diving squid" won the "To the Future Literature Award" for the main novel award, "Kyushu: The Dragon Sting" created by the bucket rider and "Immortal Falling from the Sky" created by Liang Qingsan won the "To the Future Literature Award" for the Starlight Novel Award; Xie Minglang's "Penglai" won the "To the Future Literature Award - Master Award for Short and Medium Stories", while Cat Yacha's "Abyssal Flow Mother" and Ren Weijin's "Children in Black Hair" won the "To the Future Literature Award - Star Award for Short and Medium Stories". ▲ To Shang Zhen, Director of the Future Jury, to present the Master Award for Novel (photo provided by the organizer). In addition, Chen Yiduo's "The Murder Case of Pansi Cave in the Secret Archives of the Journey to the West" won the special award of the jury for the "To the Future Literature Award - Journey to the West Theme Essay Award", and Li Yunqi's "Returning to the Sea" won the first prize of the "Ten Thousand Talents to the Future - National College Student Essay Award". Ten people, including Xie Minglang, Mao Yecha, Ren Weijin, and Lu Men, were selected for the third "Ten Best Writers for the Future Literature Award". It is worth mentioning that the "To the Future Literature Award · Novels Award" is a new award based on the selection of only short stories in the previous two sessions. It is mainly for novels of the genre that have been publicly published in Chinese Mainland from January 2020 to December 2022. The award is divided into two parts: the main award and the Star Glory Award. The "Journey to the West Theme" essay and the "National College Student Essay" two essay awards are also new awards for this year's Future Literature Award. The predecessor of the "To the Future Literature Award", the "Strange Talk Literature Award," was first founded by Beijing Bingdu Culture Media Co., Ltd. on June 19, 2019. The award content includes science fiction, suspense, mystery, and supernatural novels. Starting from the second edition, the "Strange Talk Literature Award" has been renamed as the "To the Future Literature Award", and on the basis of this award, the "To the Future Literature Festival" has been held. Since its establishment four years ago, "To the Future Literature Award" has created various platforms such as "Strange Talk Literature Award" WeChat official account, and has signed up to launch nearly 600 excellent novels. From June 16th to June 18th, in addition to the award ceremony, the third "To the Future Literature Festival (TTF LA)", which lasted for three days, also held the "To the Future Interstellar Program" literary film and television docking event, the National Writers' Pen Association, and a roundtable forum set in Seoul - "The Imagination of the Ancient City: A New Expression and Dissemination of the Cultural IP of Seoul". ▲ The award-winning speech video of the author of "Mysterious Lord" who loves diving, a squid (provided by the organizer). It is reported that Shang Zhen, a writer and former deputy editor in chief of People's Literature, served as the director of the jury. The final jury was composed of Xu Chenliang, editor in chief of Contemporary, People's Literature Publishing House, Wang Xiaohui, co president of iQiyi, Xiaoqiao Laoshu, a writer and vice chairman of Chongqing Writers' Association, Lan Ye, a poet, Wang Yilin, general manager of the Western National Copyright Trading Center, and Zhang Progressive, initiator of the ZhifutureLiterature Award. Among them, the "To the Future Literature Award · Short and Medium Story Award" received a total of 12871 submissions for short and medium stories, and 16 of them ultimately entered the final stage. There are a total of 7 nominated judges for the "To the Future Literature Award · Novel Award"