Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
Seanan McGuire
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Campbell Eligibility.

It's difficult for me to talk about awards and such for which I qualify. Part of this is the firm conviction that I'm actually asleep (and having a really weird dream), and part of it is that I come from the filk community, where saying "Hey, I'm eligible for award X!" is considered highly tacky and inappropriate. We all have our quirks, I suppose. But still, my particular recalcitrance isn't the standard in the writing community, so I'm trying to get past it. With that in mind...

I am considered eligible for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer.

To quote the site a bit:

The John W. Campbell Award uses the same nomination and voting mechanism as the Hugo, even though the Campbell Award is not a Hugo. To be able to nominate a writer for the 2010 award, you must have either been an attending member of Anticipation (the 67th World Science Fiction Convention in Montreal) or be a supporting or attending member of Aussiecon Four (the 68th World Science Fiction Convention in Melbourne) before Jan. 31, 2010.

Nomination ballots can be found on the Aussiecon website. They must be received before 23:59 PST on March 13, 2010.

If you qualify to nominate, please, take a look at the site I linked above, and see who's eligible for this year's award. There were some really awesome debut authors in 2009, and it would be really bad-ass to see them make the ballot. (Mind you, if I make the ballot, I'll probably stop breathing until Kate slaps me, but...)

This has been your PSA for Thursday.
Tags: awards and stuff, writing
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  • 7 comments

hms42

February 18 2010, 15:53:51 UTC 7 years ago

Thanks for the link about the other authors. I have to see whom besides you I will nominate to the ballot.

seanan_mcguire

February 18 2010, 17:09:22 UTC 7 years ago

Welcome!