‘Tis the Season – for Award Nominations! (Aussie Edition)

Right now, nominations are open for two of the Australian awards in speculative fiction, the Chronos Awards and the Ditmar Awards.

Ditmar Nominations Open

Nominations for the 2013 Australian SF (“Ditmar”) awards are now open and will remain open until one minute before midnight Canberra time on Wednesday, 20th of March, 2013 (ie. 11.59pm, GMT+10). Likewise, postal nominations must be postmarked no later than Wednesday, 20th March, 2013.

The current rules, including Award categories can be found at:

http://wiki.sf.org.au/Ditmar_rules

You must include your name with any nomination. Nominations will be accepted only from natural persons active in fandom, or from full or supporting members of Conflux 9, the 2013 Australian National SF Convention. Where a nominator may not be known to the Ditmar subcommittee, the nominator should provide the name of someone known to the subcommittee who can vouch for the nominator’s eligibility.

While online nominations are preferred, nominations can be made in a number of ways:

1. online, via this form:

http://ditmars.sf.org.au/2013/nominations.html

2. via email to ditmars@sf.org.au; or

3. by post to:

Ditmars
6 Florence Road
NEDLANDS WA 6009
AUSTRALIA

So, basically if you are someone who is active in the Aussie spec fic community, you are eligible to nominate. And, you should! Why? Because, even more so than with the international awards, the more people involved in the awards process, from nomination to voting, the greater the legitimacy they possess. I have only been around a few years, but even in that short time I have seen the Ditmars cop what I consider unfair criticism. The more people who participate in the process the less ammunition there is for critics.

A very comprehensive (but by no means exhaustive) list of eligible works can be found here

Also open are the Chronos Awards – the Victorian version of the Ditmars.

The Chronos Awards celebrate excellence in Victorian Science Fiction, and will be presented this year at Continuum 9. Nominations will be accepted now in all categories – just email your nominations to awards@continuum.org.au. For more information about the awards (including categories and key dates) please see the website, or email awards@continuum.org.au with any queries.

Another very comprehensive (but by no means exhaustive) list of eligible works can be found here and, again, if you are eligible to nominate or vote, please do so! It really does make a difference.

Obviously I have eligible works in both sets of awards, but I don’t expect anyone to nominate, or vote for, me. If you do that’s wonderful, of course! But, you can stop reading here and just take away the core message of this post -nominate and vote the works you believe deserve it!

However, if you are interested in seeing what I have in the mix then read on:

DITMAR AWARDS

Best Novella or Novelette

“Cold Comfort”,  in Epilogue, FableCroft Publishing.

“Reflections in a Silver Mirror”, in The Lone Ranger Chronicles, Moonstone Books.

Best Short Story

“Diplomatic Freeze”, in Tales of the Shadowmen, Black Coat Press.

“Through Wind and Weather”, in Deck the Halls”, eMergent Publishing.

“The Girl from Odessa”, in Night of the Nyctalope, Black Coat Press.

Best Fan Writer

Body of Work

Best Fan Publication in any Medium

Snapshot 2012, Alisa Krasnostein, Kathryn Linge, David McDonald, Helen Merrick, Ian Mond, Jason Nahrung, Alex Pierce, Tansy Rayner Roberts, Tehani Wessely and Sean Wright (Snapshot Roundup)

William Atheling Jr Award for Criticism or Review

Alisa Krasnostein, Kathryn Linge, David McDonald and Tehani Wessely, for review of the Newsflesh series by Mira Grant, in Australian Speculative Fiction in Focus.

David McDonald, Tansy Rayner Roberts and Tehani Wessely for the Reviewing New Who series.

CHRONOS AWARDS

Short Stories

“Cold Comfort”,  in Epilogue, FableCroft Publishing.

“Diplomatic Freeze”, in Tales of the Shadowmen, Black Coat Press.

“Reflections in a Silver Mirror”, in The Lone Ranger Chronicles, Moonstone Books.

“Through Wind and Weather”, in Deck the Halls”, eMergent Publishing.

“The Girl from Odessa”, in Night of the Nyctalope, Black Coat Press.

Fan Written Work

Reviewing New Who series by David McDonald, Tansy Rayner Roberts and Tehani Wessely.

Review by David McDonald, Alisa Krasnostein, Kathryn Linge and Tehani Wessely of the Newsflesh series by Mira Grant, in Australian Speculative Fiction in Focus.

Fan Writers

Body of Work

Acheivements

“Snapshot 2012” by Alisa Krasnostein, Kathryn Linge, David McDonald, Helen Merrick, Ian Mond, Jason Nahrung, Alex Pierce, Tansy Rayner Roberts, Tehani Wessely and Sean Wright.

6 thoughts on “‘Tis the Season – for Award Nominations! (Aussie Edition)

  1. David Post author

    Good work. I’ve just got my Hugo voting to do.

    Fingers crossed you walk away with a well deserved Ditmar this year, Sean! 🙂

  2. David Post author

    I guess that’s a good sign for the scene!

    Great…will be interested to hear your thoughts 🙂

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