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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).



2011 DARRELL AWARDS NEWS 
It gives us  great pleasure to announce that the 2011 Hall of Fame inductee is KATHERINE ALLRED for her outstanding body of Science Fiction and Fantasy work, including Close Encounters and Close Contact, two excellent SF space novels. Ms. Allred is a regional author with national distribution. 

Winners & other honorees were presented at MidSouthCon 29 on Saturday March 26, 2010.  HERE --> WINNERS <-- is the short results in a pdf file. 

Please contact Barb at darrell at darrellawards dot org if you would like to participate in the 2012 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:

About our Darrell 
(Dr. Darrell C. Richardson)

History of the Darrell Awards

Qualifications

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

A Statement About the Recipients of the Awards

2012 Nomination Form in Word Doc format  or
in Adobe PDF format
 
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 2011 winners. 

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 2012 Nomination Form in Word Doc or Adobe PDF format. 

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. 

 
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 2012 Darrell Awards has now been set as January 1, 2012. 

For Novel, Novella, & Short Story nominees, the period of publication now under consideration is  from November 1, 2010, through October 31st, 2011 for the 2012 Darrell Awards. Works in those categories published after October 31, 2011 would have to wait until next year for consideration. 

Please note that we have started a new Young Adult category that will alternate with the Other Media category. For the 2012 Darrell Awards, any Young Adult work that is otherwise eligible and that was published between November 1, 2009, and October 31, 2011, can be nominated for the 2012 Darrell Award for Best Midsouth Young Adult SF/F/H. 

The plan is to skip Other Media in 2012 and cover 2 years in the 2013 Other Media award. 

Any eligible works published before November 1, 2010 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 Barbara Gatewood,  Chairperson, 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 Tuesday, August 16, 2011.      .