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The 2014 Nova Awards for excellence in British and Irish fanzines were announced at Novacon 44 yesterday by guest of honour Kari Sperring.

Best fanzine: Vibrator, ed. Graham Charnock (runners-up: 2nd, Head!, ed. Doug Bell & Christina Lake; 3rd, Banana Wings, ed. Claire Brialey & Mark Plummer).
Best fan writer: Christina Lake (runners-up: 2nd, ( Read more... )

The 2013 Nova Awards for excellence in UK and Irish fanzines were announced by Novacon 43 GoH Jo Walton on Sunday. A total of 29 valid ballots were received, half electronically. The top three in each category were as follows:

Fanzine: 1, Banana Wings, ed. Claire Brialey & Mark Plummer (25 points); 2, Head, ed. Doug Bell & Christina Lake (23); 3 ( Read more... )

Novacon's second (and penultimate) progress report has been e-mailed to the printer - only to bounce because of some problem at their end. Guess a phone call is due in the morning.

Touchwood, it'll go out on Sunday. Yahoo!

Those of you who attended the Saturday evening filmshow I put together for Novacon 36 will undoubtedly recall Karl Holt's hilarious horror-comedy Eddie Loves You. What I hadn't realised until tonight was that Karl had filmed the audience* when it was screened at the 17th Festival of Fantastic Films, to put together this trailer.

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