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The Darrell Awards

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


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 is presented in memory of Dr. Dalvan Coger (bio pending).


2010 DARRELL AWARDS NEWS 
The 2010 Darrell Awards Jury has now wrapped up its deliberations. We have chosen the Best Midsouth SF/F/H Short Story, Novella & Novel.  

It gives us  great pleasure to announce that the 2010 Hall of Fame inductee is BRYAN DAVIS for his outstanding body of Science Fiction and Fantasy work, including three (3) separate multi-book series. Mr. Davis is a regional author with national distribution.

Winners were presented and announced at MidSouthCon on Saturday March 13, 2010.   Here are the 2010 RESULTS. 

The Finalists for Best Midsouth Short Story for 2010 are here --> Best 2010 Short Stories. The Finalists for Best Midsouth Novel and Novella for 2010 are here --> Best 2010 Long Stories. Or, if you would rather have a handy 1 page list of all the 2010 Finalists in pdf format , here you go --> 2010 Finalists.

Thanks go to Sylvia Cox, Barbara Gatewood, Don Richardson, Eric Groff,  and Tim Gatewood for their participation in the 2010 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, has now concluded its work.  

Please contact Barb at darrell at darrellawards dot org if you would like to participate in the 2011 Darrell Awards, either as a Reader or a full-blown Member of the Jury. 

Please note: we have added a few counties to the geographic area covered, but otherwise left the details of the qualifications as they were. Please contact Barb for the latest info. 

The History of the Darrell Awards has gotten long and detailed enough to have its own page here. Please visit the History page for that. 
 

SITE MAP
of sorts:

2011 Nomination Forms

About our Darrell 
(Dr. Darrell C. Richardson)

History of the Darrell Awards

Qualifications

2009 Darrell Awards 
Finalists

Darrell Awards Rules --
the current policies of 
the Jury in pdf format -- 
subject to change at 
any Jury meeting. 

Hall of Fame

Winners Index 

NOTICE to Nominees

2009 Results 

2008 Results 

2007 Results

2006 Winners in pdf

A Statement About the Recipients of the Awards

A Brief History of the Darrell 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 nominated.

We DO release a list of Finalists - please check back here after the nominations close for that list (for the 2010 Awards, see the links above). 

For a list of the previous Winners and others receiving recognition, please see the Winners page which includes 1996 through 2009 winners. 

If you know of any works that you believe qualify, please note that the DEADLINE for nominations for the 2011 Darrell Awards has now been set as January 1, 2011. The period of publication now under consideration was revised a few years ago -- you can nominate works published from November 1, 2009, through October 31st, 2010 for the 2011 Darrell Awards. Works published after October 31, 2010 would have to wait until next year for consideration. Works published before November 1, 2009 might qualify the author for a Hall of Fame nomination, as that is not limited to any given period of publication. 

Please see the link on the left to the Qualifications Page before you nominate a work, ok?  Contact Barbara Gatewood (at darrell at darrellawards dot org - spelled out here to limit spam), Chairman of the Darrell Awards Jury for a Nomination Form or visit our 2011 Nomination Forms page. 

We will start accepting nominations for the 2011 Darrell Awards after the conclusion of MidSouthCon (March 12-14, 2010). 

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 (3 seems to work best) of the work being nominated to make it easier for the Jury to actually read it. Of course, if the work is available in electronic format, you can send one copy (with NO digital rights management, PLEASE!) along with your email in which you nominate the work. 

 
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Darrell Awards fan page on Facebook
for news & updates.
 
For further information on the Darrell Awards, please contact Barbara Gatewood,  Chairperson, 2010 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 email to : webmaster at darrellawards dot org.


This page was last revised on Sunday, July 18, 2010.           .