{"id":9186,"date":"2014-06-10T12:20:35","date_gmt":"2014-06-10T02:20:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/?p=9186"},"modified":"2021-08-30T16:53:57","modified_gmt":"2021-08-30T06:53:57","slug":"i-just-won-a-ditmar-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/i-just-won-a-ditmar-award\/","title":{"rendered":"I just won a Ditmar Award!"},"content":{"rendered":"

You know how sometimes you enter a competition and think to yourself:<\/p>\n

Gee, it would be nice to win, but that won’t happen so I may as well just get on with other things<\/em><\/p>\n

And then you don’t win, so at least you win at ‘being right’…? Well *that* but then the opposite…<\/p>\n

\"RailwayMan\"<\/a>

Movie Night!<\/p><\/div>\n

On Sunday night, Hubbie and I were busy pretending it was a Saturday, since it was a long weekend here in Australia, and we were curled up on the sofa munching on M&Ms while watching ‘The Railway Man’ (just when I thought I’d seen all the best war movies, another one comes along!), and I knew that over in Melbourne at Continuum 10 this year’s Ditmar Awards were about to be announced.<\/p>\n

For anyone who doesn\u2019t know, the Ditmar Awards celebrate achievements by Australians in speculative fiction writing and winning one is a seriously big deal.<\/p>\n

I was particularly interested in this year’s results because, as you may know, I’d been nominated for a Ditmar Award for Best New Talent. Of course that was six weeks ago, which is more than enough time for me to convince myself that I didn’t have a hope at actually winning. Still, I was curious to find out who would win, so kept my phone in the lounge with me, intending to check the results when Hubbie went for a snack break later (I knew M&Ms alone wouldn’t sustain him!!).<\/p>\n

Then… in the middle of the film… my phone bleeped. Then it bleeped again. And again.<\/p>\n

Couldn’t be…<\/p>\n

\"ZenaShapterDitmarCongratulationTweets\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Yes \u2013 it could! There on my phone were a bundle of Twitter messages saying ‘Congratulations Zena!’ I think I swore at that point and Hubbie got all flustered, muttering ‘what does that mean, what does that mean?’.<\/p>\n

It means I just won a Ditmar Award.<\/p>\n

\"Ditmar<\/a> \"Ditmar<\/a><\/p>\n

Wow!<\/p>\n

Double-wow!<\/p>\n

So then this happened…<\/p>\n

\"ShapterChampagne\"<\/a>And this…<\/p>\n

\"ShapterChampagneTweet\"<\/a>And this…<\/p>\n

\"ShapterChampagne2\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Woo hoo!<\/p>\n

I’m overjoyed. Thrilled. Happy. I won a Ditmar Award. (I still can’t believe I can say that!)<\/p>\n

The full list of winners is over here<\/a>, so do go and check them out \u2013 it’s the perfect to-read list!!<\/p>\n

And thank you everyone who voted for me. Your support means so so so much to me and I really really appreciate it. Thank you.<\/p>\n

Big smiles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You know how sometimes you enter a competition and think to yourself: Gee, it would be nice to win, but that won’t happen so I may as well just get on with other things And then you don’t win, so at least you win at ‘being right’…? Well *that* but\u2026<\/p>\n

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