Nomination Season Open

May 03, 2006 01:13

Hi guys,

I'm proud to announce that the 2006 Middle-earth Fanfiction Awards are open for nominations. To vote, please go to http://www.mefawards.net/MEFA2006 .

Some important reminders:

1. Each member is limited to nominating twenty pieces.

2. Nominators this year provide the story URL, the story title, and the author's name. (If the author does not already have a story nominated, the nominator also needs to provide the author's email address). All other information is provided by the authors.

3. The rules and several FAQs about different aspects of the awards are available at http://www.mefawards.net/faq/ . If you have any questions you may find this site helpful.

3. The nomination form has changed substantially, hopefully for the better. Authors will now select a time period, genre, and race the story is about, and rank their preference as to which category they most want their story to take place in. This replaces the question last year where authors were asked to give their first-, second-, and third-choice categories.

4. Authors will be asked a series of questions about their stories and this information will be used to form sub-categories. This replaces the question last year where you were asked to list some potential sub-categories.

5. Nominators may now nominate stories posted after the start of nomination season. The only requirement is that the piece be posted at the time you nominate it.

6. Authors may vote on other authors' pieces without being required to join the MEFAwards group. To nominate other stories (by themselves or other authors) they must still join the MEFAwards group. If the author does not have a Yahoo account they can be added as an email only member if they would like.

7. Not a change, but a reminder: make sure the piece you nominated was not nominated before. Each piece can be nominated once as a WIP and once again as a completed piece. 2004's nominations are available at http://gabrielle.sytes.net/mefa/final2004noms.html; 2005's nominations at http://gabrielle.sytes.net/MEFA2005/ . Members of the MEFAwards Yahoo group can also find stories previously nominated in the databases "Ineligible Complete Works" and "Ineligible Incomplete Works" at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MEFAwards/database .

Those are the most significant changes. Please make sure you are familiar with the pertinent rules and FAQs, and if you have any question feel free to email mefasupport@gmail.com .

Marta (MEFA Admin)
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