2009 DARRELL AWARDS NEWS  The 2009 Darrell Awards Jury has completed its deliberations and made its choices. This year, we will present the Darrell Awards for Best Midsouth SF/F/H fiction in several categories, as well as inducting a new honoree into the Dal Coger Memorial Hall of Fame.  It gives us  great pleasure to announce that the 2009 Hall of Fame inductee is Nancy A. Collins for her outstanding body of Science Fiction, Fantasy and/or Horror Fiction, some of which is set within the Midsouth, especially Sunglassses After Dark and other stories in the Sonja Blue series.  The winners of the 2009 Darrell Awards will be announced during the Banquet on Saturday March 21, 2009, during the Midsouthcon 27 Banquet, this year being held at Whispering Woods hotel on Hacks Cross Road and Goodman Road in Olive Branch, Mississippi, just a few miles south of Memphis, Tennessee. Please check back here for a report on this wonderful event.  For a list of Finalists for the 2009 Darrell Awards, please see the 2009 Finalists list in pdf format here: 2009 Finalists.  Thank you to Sylvia Cox, Barbara Gatewood, Don Richardson, Eric Groff,  and Tim Gatewood for their participation in the 2009 Darrell Awards Jury and to  Michael Kingsley for serving as an additional reader on these works. Special thanks to Kingsley for finding so many of the works that we considered this year -- he is the best "bird-dog pointer" for this we have ever seen.  The 2009 Darrell Awards Jury, chaired by the very able Barbara Gatewood, has recently concluded meeting. In a few weeks, we will start meeting for the 2010 Darrell Awards. Please contact Barb at darrell at darrellawards dot org if you would like to participate, either as a Reader or a full-blown Member of the Jury.  The Darrell Awards and the Dal Coger Memorial Hall of Fame Award are a project of the Mid-South SF&F Association   with support from MSFCI For more info on MSFCI and Midsouthcon, please see their website at http://www.midsouthcon.org .

A Statement about The Recipients of these Awards

The Darrell Awards and the Dal Coger Memorial Hall of Fame Award are given annually in recognition of the best published work out of those which qualify and which were nominated. The focus of the Darrell Awards and the Hall of Fame is upon the work itself, not the author of that work.

As these authors are (mostly) still living at the time that their respective Darrell Awards are presented (or at the time that they are inducted into the Coger Hall of Fame), there is always the possibility that any of the authors whose work was thus recognized could go on to do something wrong or to take some other bad action.

In short, we do not endorse any actions taken or alleged to have been taken by any of those  authors who have received these Awards, other than the writing of the work which received the Award.

The Darrell Awards Jury and the Mid-South SF&F Association (MSSFFA) have adopted a policy on dealing with authors whose works were nominated and who later commit bad acts. In brief, we will not provide any further publicity for such authors, they will be deemed ineligible for any future consideration, and they will not be included in any anthology or other materials which we may produce or license or otherwise authorize. What constitutes a bad action sufficient to fall within this policy will be determined on a case-by-case basis by the Jury and/or MSSFFA.

 
For further information on the Darrell Awards, please contact Barbara Gatewood,  Chairperson, 2009 Darrell Awards Jury, 3125 South Mendenhall Road, # 353, Memphis TN 38115. Email: darrell at darrellawards dot org.
For more info on the Mid-South SF&F Association, see the Official MSSFFA home page (MSSFFA).

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