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The Darrell Awards

Promoting Literacy in the Mid-South by
Recognizing the Best Published 
Midsouth Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror

Underwritten by generous support from the 
Mid-South Science & Fiction Conventions, Inc. (MSFCI)

2012 DARRELL AWARDS NEWS 
It gives us  great pleasure to announce that the 2012 Hall of Fame inductee is SEANAN McGUIRE (Mira Grant) for her outstanding body of Science Fiction and Fantasy work, including Feed  and Deadline, two excellent zombie apocalypse novels with scenes set at the Memphis Center for Disease Control. 

Winners & other honorees were presented at MidSouthCon 30 on Saturday March 24, 2012.  Please see our blog (here) for the winners. 

Please contact us at darrell at darrellawards dot org if you would like to participate in the 2013 Darrell Awards, either as a Reader or a full-blown Member of the Jury. 
  We now have a BLOG for the Darrell Awards.
Please visit our blog here: BLOG. 

SITE MAP
of sorts:

2013 Nomination Form
in pdf format

About our Darrell 
(Dr. Darrell C. Richardson)

History of the Darrell Awards

Qualifications

Hall of Fame - through 2012

Winners Index  through 2012

NOTICE to Nominees

A Statement About the Recipients of the Awards

 
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 merely nominated.

For a list of the previous Winners and others receiving recognition, please see the Winners page which includes 1996 through 2012 winners & see our blog (darrellawards.wordpress.com) for the 2012 Winners & other Honored Works. 

Please see the link on the left to the Qualifications Page before you nominate a work, ok?  See the links on the left for a 2013 Nomination Form in Adobe PDF format.  (Now that the latest version of the free Adobe Reader has a feature that lets you add text, you can fill the form in, save it and email it back to us.) 

ANYONE CAN NOMINATE, even the author (or her agent or his publisher or their friends). All we ask is that you see the Nomination Form for details of how to nominate and what qualifies (or see the Qualifications page).

It is also a Good Thing to send several copies (2 or 3 seems to work best -- we are asking the authors or publishers to send 1 printed and 1 epub or pdf copy, with 1 extra printed copy for YA works) of the work being nominated to make it easier for the Jury to actually read it. Of course, if the work is available only in electronic format, you can send one copy (with NO digital rights management, PLEASE!) along with your email in which you nominate the work.  Or, if it is only in print on paper, please send 2 or 3 printed copies.  For movies, 1 CD or DVD works fine, as the Jury will all watch it together at the same time.
 
Please see us on
Darrell Awards fan page on Facebook
for news & updates.

If you know of any works that you believe qualify, please note that the DEADLINE for nominations for the 2013 Darrell Awards has now been set as January 1, 2013. 

For Novel, Novella, & Short Story nominees, the period of publication now under consideration is  from November 1, 2011, through October 31, 2012 for the 2013 Darrell Awards. Works in those categories published after October 31, 2012 would have to wait until next year for consideration. 

Please note that we are now alternating our Young Adult category with the Other Media category. For the 2013 Darrell Awards, any Other Media (this includes movies, plays, podcasts & games) work that is otherwise eligible and that was published (shown to the public) between November 1, 2010, and October 31, 2012, can be nominated for the 2013 Darrell Award for Best Midsouth Other Media SF/F/H.  We will not present the Young Adult award in 2013; that category will return in 2014 if we have enough qualified nominees. 

Any eligible works published before November 1, 2011 might qualify the author for a Hall of Fame nomination, as that is not limited to any given period of publication. 

If you are unclear about whether a work you want to nominate is eligible, please contact us at memphissf at cs dot com or darrell at darrellawards dot org.

For further information on the Darrell Awards, please contact Tim Gatewood,  Darrell Awards Jury, 3125 South Mendenhall Road, # 353, Memphis TN 38115. Email: darrell at darrellawards dot org.
 
The Darrell Awards now has its own fan page on Facebook. Please visit us there and become a fan to keep up with news about the Awards.
OTHER AWARDS:
We know that there are other awards given in SF (yeah, we know!)  Here's a page about Other Awards

Please let us know if you find any links on here that don't work --
please send your email to : darrell at darrellawards dot org 
and be sure to mention "Darrell Awards" in the subject line 
so we don't delete it as spam.


This page was last revised on Sunday, April 22, 2012. .