storySouth Million Writers Award
Apr. 18th, 2011 09:10 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
marinessIn a bit of surprise, I learned last night that my short story, Mademoiselle and the Chevalier, was selected as one of the storySouth Million Writers Award notable stories of 2010. A surprise, because as I've previously noted, Fantasy Magazine had a very good year last year, and I expected this story to be completely overshadowed by other brilliance.
In related good news,tithenai received a nod for her short story, "The Green Book," which also, as you might remember, received a well-earned Nebula nomination, aliettedb got a nod for Memories in Bronze, Feathers and Blood, catvalente got a nod for Thirteen Ways of Looking at Space/Time, and rachel_swirsky for Defiled Imagination AND The Lady Who Plucked Red Flowers Beneath the Queen's Window (another well-earned Nebula nomination). Which just proves that I have a very very awesome friends list.
This is an interesting award, mostly because it looks at mainstream and genre works together: the main criteria are "online" and "at least 1000 words," which the internet being what it is, includes quite a lot of works. It's rare to see an award do this – most of the awards I've seen have been either aimed at genre – and in most cases, a very specific sort of genre – or focused on "literary" fiction, which admittedly can contain genre elements, despite an ongoing tendency (hi, New York Times) to consider genre as some sort of lower class literature by some of those literary fiction people.
Anyway, I digressed. (Shocking, I know) Congratulations to everyone. Voting for the reader's poll for this apparently starts up fairly soon, so expect a quick follow-up post later.
In related good news,
tithenai received a nod for her short story, "The Green Book," which also, as you might remember, received a well-earned Nebula nomination, aliettedb got a nod for Memories in Bronze, Feathers and Blood, catvalente got a nod for Thirteen Ways of Looking at Space/Time, and rachel_swirsky for Defiled Imagination AND The Lady Who Plucked Red Flowers Beneath the Queen's Window (another well-earned Nebula nomination). Which just proves that I have a very very awesome friends list.This is an interesting award, mostly because it looks at mainstream and genre works together: the main criteria are "online" and "at least 1000 words," which the internet being what it is, includes quite a lot of works. It's rare to see an award do this – most of the awards I've seen have been either aimed at genre – and in most cases, a very specific sort of genre – or focused on "literary" fiction, which admittedly can contain genre elements, despite an ongoing tendency (hi, New York Times) to consider genre as some sort of lower class literature by some of those literary fiction people.
Anyway, I digressed. (Shocking, I know) Congratulations to everyone. Voting for the reader's poll for this apparently starts up fairly soon, so expect a quick follow-up post later.