SAN DIEGO
A California Highway Patrol motorcycle officer badly injured in an Escondido crash earlier this week is a 13-year agency veteran and Medal of Valor recipient, an honor earned for rescuing an unconscious man trapped in a burning car.
The CHP on Wednesday identified the officer, who was injured shortly before 1 p.m. Tuesday, as Officer Joseph Heightman.
The crash happened as Heightman rode his motorcycle east on West Via Rancho Parkway near Lomas Seranas Drive when a Nissan Rogue took a left turn directly into his path.
Heightman was thrown from the motorcycle in the crash, CHP Officer Salvador Castro said.
The juried award will have three categories:
Long-form. 40K English words or above.
Short-form. Under 40K words.
A Special Service Award will be awarded to the author, editor, translator, activist or publisher who makes great contribution to promotion of non-English SFF internationally.
Earlier this year I was approached by the lovely people at the Future Affairs Administration in China. They were interested in starting up a new set of SF&F translation awards and they wanted me to be part of the jury. Gary Wolfe was also involved, and I still very much believe in having such awards, so I said yes.
The juried award will have three categories:
Long-form. 40K English words or above.
Short-form. Under 40K words.
A Special Service Award will be awarded to the author, editor, translator, activist or publisher who makes great contribution to promotion of non-English SFF internationally.
Earlier this year I was approached by the lovely people at the Future Affairs Administration in China. They were interested in starting up a new set of SF&F translation awards and they wanted me to be part of the jury. Gary Wolfe was also involved, and I still very much believe in having such awards, so I said yes.