The Darrell Awards
Promoting Literacy
in the Mid-South by Recognizing the Best Published SF, Fantasy and Horror
Begun by the
Memphis SF Association (MSFA)
Now A Project
of the Mid-South Science Fiction & Fantasy Association (MSSFFA)
Underwritten
by generous support from the Mid-South Science & Fiction Conventions,
Inc. (MSFCI)
The Darrell
Awards are given in memory of Dr. Darrell C. Richardson (see bio -> here).
The Dal Coger
Memorial Hall of Fame Awards are given in memory of Dr. Dalvan Coger (bio
pending).
2009 DARRELL AWARDS NEWS The 2009 Darrell Awards Jury has completed its deliberations and made its choices. Please see here for the results : 2009 Results.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.
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 2010 Darrell Awards Jury, chaired by the very able Barb Gatewood, is now meeting. We are tentatively meeting on the Sunday before or the Sunday after the MidSouthCon ConComm meetings. A calendar of meeting dates is available. 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.Please note: we are considering changes to the geographic area covered, to the categories of work recognized, and to other factors. Please contact Barb for the latest info.
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.
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Please note: we do NOT release a list of those works that have been merely nominated. This is because nominations are open to all; so, even the author or publisher or a relative or friend could nominate the work. This means that it is not (as they say at the big time award shows) "an honor merely to be nominated" -- it is simply the first step in getting the work officially considered by the Darrell Awards Jury. Also, every year, we see some works that are nominated which do not qualify or which are too poor-quality for us to lend any support to them. So, for all these reasons, we do NOT confirm or deny that any particular work has been nominated. |
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.
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