Call for nominations for the Sir Julius Vogel Awards
Sir Julius Vogel Award nominations for 2004 are now being accepted.
These are awards in professional and fan fields from the 2004 calendar
year, voted by the fans and presented at the National Science Fiction
convention each following year. In 2004, that will be ICon in Wellington.
You can find full details of the awards at the SFFANZ website (http://www.sffanz.sf.org.nz)
or you can request details by post. Please feel free to nominate
anyone you feel qualifies, and encourage other people to do the
same.
Nominations can be made by ANYONE.
Nominees must be New Zealand citizens or legal Residents of New
Zealand at the time the work was released. In the case of group
efforts, the majority of people involved must be New Zealand citizens
or legal Residents of New Zealand at the time the work was released
Voting is open to members of SFFANZ, and any member of Icon.
Nominations will close Sunday February 13th, 2005.
You can send nominations to sjv_awards@sffanz.sf.org.nz
or via post at:
SJV Awards,
P.O. Box 13-574,
Johnsonville,
Wellington,
NZ
When you send your nominations, we would appreciate also being
given the contact details for the person or organisation being nominated,
if possible. This allows us to contact them and confirm that they
wish to accept the nomination.
Below are the current possible categories for the awards.
Categories of awards
Not all of these may be able to be used at present. If it becomes
appropriate, then they could be used. SFFANZ will also accept suggestions
for nomination categories if voters believe there would be enough
nominees for the position.
The categories below are not meant to stifle
options.
If a category can be usefully split or condensed, it will be considered.
Professional Categories |
Fan Categories |
Best Novel |
Best Fan Writing |
Best Novella or Novelette |
Best Fan Artwork |
Best Short Story |
Best Fanzine |
Best Collected Work |
Best Fan Publication |
Best Artwork |
Best Fan Production |
Dramatic Presentation |
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-Long Form
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-Short Form
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Special Awards
Generally the special awards are for works not eligible in existing
categories. However, Best New Talent CAN be nominated in conjunction
with other awards.
Please note that for these categories below, you also need to specify
WHY you are nominating the person or organisation. It can be long
or short, but we need to know your reasons so that the voters can
make their choices based on those reasons.
Best New Talent
Services to Fandom
Services to Science Fiction
This is just the list of potential categories. If you want the
complete Sir Julius Vogel Awards rules and details, please contact
us and we will send them to you.
Contact Details
SFFANZ can be contacted as follows:
Website: http://www.sffanz.sf.org.nz
Email: enquiries@sffanz.sf.org.nz
Postal:
ICON,
P.O. Box 13-574,
Johnsonville,
Wellington,
New Zealand
ICon can be contacted as follows:
Website: http://www.icon.sf.org.nz
Email: You can still email us, but remember
the convention is over.
Postal:
ICON,
P.O. Box 13-574,
Johnsonville,
Wellington,
New Zealand
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