For anyone who doesn’t know, the Ditmar Awards celebrate achievements by Australians in speculative fiction writing. Nominations for the awards are currently open and can be made by anyone who has been to a recent speculative fiction convention / event OR is otherwise active in the speculative fiction world as a fan, writer, editor, etc. That means you! This is the one time you get a say! So enjoy it.
The list of nominations is online here, along with the eligibility criteria here, so have a good look through and vote for what you believe is deserving.
Aaand… since a couple of people have asked, here’s a list of my own eligible works 🙂
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Best Novella or Novelette: “Darker”, Zena Shapter, in Midnight Echo 10.
This is the story that won the Australian Horror Writers’ Association 2013 short story competition, ranked me as semi-finalist in the internationally prestigious Writers of the Future contest, AND got me a personal recommendation from Lillian Csernica, reviewer for Tangent Online. See here.
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Best New Talent: Zena Shapter
No, I don’t think I’m the bomb! This was suggested to me by a friend. Thank you for thinking of me, friend (you know who you are!).
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Best Fan Writer: Zena Shapter, for body of work including the blog series How Editors Select Short Stories and Where Writers Write
My Where Writers Write blog series was the most popular series I did last year. But perhaps you enjoyed something else on this blog last year? If so, what?
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Best Fan Publication in any Medium: Conflux 9 / Natcon Progess Reports, Zena Shapter
Did you like those progress reports I did for Conflux 9? Take another look at them if you want, they’re here.
How to vote?
If you’d like to nominate me or anyone else, you can do so via this form: http://ditmars.sf.org.au/2014/nominations.html or by emailing the organisers at: ditmars [at] sf.org.au
Nominations close 30th March.
Thank you for reading this, and good luck to everyone also being nominated for these prestigious awards 🙂
