WFAs 2009: Nom, Nom, Nom
Good news! The awards are going swimmingly. :-)
There was a pile of nominations last week and so I sent out the confirmations last night to the nominated authors and artists (using LJ message because it seemed easiest). Fabulously, LJ messaging did its job and over half the nominated authors and artists have got back to me already confirming their noms. Yay!
As you can tell from the quick response, people are generally very happy and excited to be nominated. So, make more people happy and excited by nominating your 2009 favourites now!
Links
Links to works posted on Worlds_Finest in 2009 (graciously provided by damos and mithen):
2009 Art
2009 Fic
Links provided by authors/artists (these are the preferred links so please use them when nominating whenever possible):
Fictional Knight's 2009 work
Suave Bastard's 2009 work
Cycnus39's 2009 work
Kirax2's 2009 work
Skund's 2009 work
Quiet Tiger's 2009 work
Bradygirl's 2009 work
Saavikam's 2009 work
Note: All Authors/artists are recommended to make a post of their 2009 works with their preferred links. Please comment with a link to that post on this entry and I will add your work to this list.
Categories
Fiction: Length
Drabble, Short - up to 100 words
Drabble, Medium - 101 to 250 words
Drabble, Long - 251 to 500 words
Ficlet, Short - 501 to 1,000 words
Ficlet, Long - 1,001 to 2,000 words
Short Story - 2,001 to 5,000 words
Medium Story - 5,001 to 15,000 words
Long Story - 15,001 to 25,000 words
Novella/Novel - over 25,000 words
Fiction: Genre
Action/Adventure - Stories with a plot that involves action and/or adventure
AU - Stories that the author describes as being set in an alternate universe
Dark/Death - Stories that involve dark themes, possibly including character death
Drama/Angst, Short - Stories with a plot that involves character conflicts and are
shorter than 6,000 words
Drama/Angst, Long - Stories with a plot that involves character conflicts and are longer than 6,000 words
Fluff, Short - Stories that have light, slice-of-life type scenes and are shorter than 800 words
Fluff, Long - Stories that have light, slice-of-life type scenes and are longer than 800 words
Humour - Stories designed to be funny
Hurt/Comfort - Stories with a plot resulting in hurt and then comfort for the characters
PWP - Stories light on plot but heavy on sex scenes
Romance, Short - Stories with a plot that involves the romantic relationship between the main pairing(s) in a key role and are shorter than 3,000 words
Romance, Long - Stories with a plot that involves the romantic relationship between the main pairing(s) in a key role and are longer than 3,000 words
WIP - Unfinished stories that were updated in 2009 and are still not finished before the voting
Note: Any length of story can compete in any genre category if their content qualifies. However, stories already nominated in a length category can only compete in a maximum of two genre categories. If a story has not been nominated in a length category, it can compete in a maximum of three genre categories.
Art
Chibi - Artwork portraying the characters in a chibi style
Comic Strip - Artwork in the form of a comic strip
Graphic/Manip - Artwork manipulated from original sources to make a new piece of work
Kissing Scene - Artwork portraying the characters in a kissing scene
Monochrome - Artwork portraying the characters in a single colour or black and white
Original Art - Artwork portraying the characters in an original scene
Story Illustration - Artwork portraying the characters in a scene from a story
Sexy Scene - Artwork portraying the characters in a scene with nudity/sex
Note: Graphics/Manips can compete in the Kissing Scene and Sexy Scene categories as well as the Graphic/Manip category if their content qualifies. Artwork created by hand from scratch in any medium, whether on paper or on computer or anything in between, can compete in all art categories except the Graphic/Manip category (up to a maximum of three categories total) if their content qualifies.
Nominations Procedure
1. Choose the stories/artwork you’d like to nominate for any category.
2. Find valid links for the stories/artwork.
3. Send the above information to wfa2009nominations@gmail.com in an email set out like this:
Category you’d like to nominate in
Name of Author/Artist, Title of Story/Artwork
Link to Work
For example, if you wanted to nominate All Alone In The Haunted House by Cycnus39 in the Chibi category, your email would look like this:
Chibi
Cycnus39, All Alone In The Haunted House
http://cycnus39.livejournal.com/335179.html
The subject line of your email should be ‘Nominations: Art’ or ‘Nominations: Story’.
You can nominate as many pieces of art in your email entitled ‘Nominations: Art’ as you like and you can likewise nominate as many stories as you like in your email entitled ‘Nominations: Story’.
It would be helpful if you could collect all your art nominations into one art email and all your story nominations into one story email.
Note: Since anyone can nominate anyone else, including themselves, there is no need to indenify yourself in the emails you send. Anonymous nominations are very welcome.
NOMINATIONS WILL CLOSE ON TUESDAY 10TH AUGUST 2010
Banner News!
The lovely ctbn60 is getting busy with the awards banners for the winners and runners-up in each category and the samples she has shown me so far are gorgeous! We'll all be in for a treat after the voting. :-)
And, finally, some category news:
In order for all the monochrome nominations to compete, I have removed the 'Original Art (Monochrome)' category and replaced it with a general 'Monochrome' category. Subsequently, the 'Original Art (Colour)' category is now just 'Original Art'. If you have already nominated a monochrome pic, never fear, they were all accidentally nominated in the 'Original Art (Monochrome)' category anyway and are now all in the new 'Monochrome' category. :-D
A few of the fiction categories are getting quite big (over 12 nominations and growing) and so I will be keeping a close eye on them. If they get much bigger and can easily be split into longer and shorter story versions of the category, I will take this step to ensure everyone gets as much chance of winning something as possible.