Darrell Awards -- Mid-South Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Literary Awards

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)

2013 DARRELL AWARDS NEWS
It gives us great pleasure to announce that the 2013 Hall of Fame inductee is JUSTIN CRONIN for his outstanding body of Science Fiction and Fantasy work, including The Passage and The Twelve, two excellent novels in his Passage trilogy. The Passage opens with an extensive scene at the Memphis Zoo and the surrounding area.
Winners & other honorees were presented at the MidSouthCon 31 Banquet on Saturday March 23, 2013. Please see here (Results) for the winners and other honored works.

Please contact us at darrell at darrellawards dot org if you would like to participate in the 2014 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

Official Reader
Application
in pdf , doc or OpenOffice

About our Darrell
(Dr. Darrell C. Richardson)

History of the Darrell Awards
Qualifications
Hall of Fame - through 2013
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 2013 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.) We expect to have our 2014 Nomination Form posted in April; in the meantime, feel free to use the 2013 one.
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 of the work being nominated to make it easier for the Jury to evaluate it. Two or three in print or one in pdf seems to work best, with one extra printed copy for YA works. Of course, if the work is available only in electronic format, you can send one pdf, text or doc 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.

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for news & updates.

If you know of any works that you believe qualify, please note that the DEADLINE for nominations for the 2014 Darrell Awards has now been set as January 1, 2014.

For Novel, Novella, & Short Story nominees, the period of publication now under consideration is from November 1, 2012, through October 31, 2013 for the 2014 Darrell Awards. Works in those categories published after October 31, 2013 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 2014 Darrell Awards, any Young Adult works that otherwise qualify and that was published between November 1, 2011, and October 31, 2013, can be nominated for the 2014 Darrell Award for Best Midsouth Young Adult work. We will not present the Other Media award in 2014; that category will return in 2015 if we have enough qualified nominees.

Any eligible works published before November 1, 2012 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.

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, March 24, 2013. .