2021 Ditmar Awards open for nominations

Jul 12, 2021

The Australian fan-voted Ditmar Awards are open for nominations for all eligible work published in 2020. Last year was a bit of a mess as hardly anyone knew about the awards opening and not many nominations or votes went through. This year, there’s not a huge amount of time again, so please do get your nominations in. The more people who get involved, the more accurately the awards reflect the will of the reading public, which is what they’re all about, after all. According to the rules, anyone active in fandom, or a full or supporting member of Conflux 16, the 2021 Australian National SF Convention (https://conflux.org.au/) can nominate a work. So basically, if you’re an Australian reader of genre fiction, you can vote. There’s also this: 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. It’s a bit convoluted, but award rules are often like that. If you’re not sure, nominate anyway and explain who you are in the Eligibility section. If you know me, I’ll vouch for you.

There’s a massive eligibility list here, so you can have a reminder of what was published last year. And you can vote easily online through this form: https://ditmars.sf.org.au/2021/nominations.html

So please do get involved. We need to spread the word far and wide and have as many nominations as possible.

For my part, I have a few pieces eligible this year:

Best Novella or Novellette

  • “Recall Night”, Alan Baxter in Recall Night, (Grey Matter Press)
  • “The Roo”, Alan Baxter in The Roo (self-published)

Honestly, I would love to see The Roo nominated!

Best Short Story

  • “A Star has Died”, Alan Baxter in Curious Fictions.
  • “The Demon Locke”, Alan Baxter in SNAFU: Medivac, Cohesion Press.
  • “The Normandy Curse”, Alan Baxter in Does the Dog Die in This? 11.
  • “The Bone Fire” – Alan Baxter in Halldark Holidays anthology, ed. Gabino Iglesias (Cemetery Gates Media, Dec 2020)
  • “Liminal” – Alan Baxter in One of Us: A Tribute to Frank Michaels Errington (ed. Kenneth W Cain) Bloodshot Books (November 2020)

 

 

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