Nominations open for 2010 MEFAs

[Bonnie L. Sherrell]

Hey guys,

The 2010 Middle-earth Fanfiction Awards have officially begun. We are
accepting nominations from now until June 15, and would love to include your
favorite stories, poems, essays, and other fanfic.

For an overview of what pieces are eligible and which aren't, as well as a
run-down of some important changes to the 2010 awards, see

community.livejournal.com/mefas/193749.html

If you would like to nominate stories, you will need to join the Yahoo group
MEFAwards.

groups.yahoo.com/group/MEFAwards/

Anyone who joins that group will be able to nominate up to twenty pieces of
Tolkien fanfic, either their own or someone else's. Nominated authors will
be able to vote in the awards but need to join the MEFAwards group in order
to nominate stories.

Thanks in advance for your participation and interest! If you have
questions, please email me: mefasupport-at-gmail-dot-com.

Marta (MEFA Admin.)

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Bonnie L. Sherrell
Teacher at Large

"Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends." LOTR

"Don't go where I can't follow."


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[Devona]

Can you tell about that group?

And the exact address to subscribe?

Devona
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Sent: Saturday, May 15, 2010 1:36 PM
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Subject: Nominations open for 2010 MEFAs

[Bonnie L. Sherrell]

The Middle Earth Fanfiction Awards group is basically busy only about now, from
just before the beginning of nomination season, which starts usually in May,
until the end of voting season, in December. This year the voting will be
finished on December 15th. It is composed of people who like reading and
writing fanfiction based on the works of J. R. R. Tolkien, mostly on "The
Hobbit," "The Lord of the Rings," "The Silmarillion," and "The Children of
Hurin." The MEFAs are currently the largest awards contest for Tolkien
fanfiction going. We are in our sixth year now.

The email group for it is on YahooGroups.com, and you can join either by going
to YahooGroups on the web, or by sending a blank email to
MEFAwards...@yahoogroups.com and then responding to the automated email
advising you that you are joining the group with a blank email to confirm that
yes, you wish to join. Once you are a member of the email group you will be
assigned a username and password allowing you to vote via the awards website.
You don't have to be a member in order to see what stories have been nominated
and to read the tales on offer, though, if you find you don't wish to write
comments on the stories that are available.

The website gives the list of stories nominated and links to each story on
whatever archive it's available at. Not all stories nominated so far have had
all the forms filled in by the authors to indicate relevant information about
each story. You can usually find all kinds of works, from essays about
Tolkien's work and favorite characters to poems to short stories and even
novels. Most of what's nominated tends to be short stories, so it can be a nice
way to divert yourself for anywhere from a few minutes to an hour or two; and
with some of the novels you can spend several evenings reading.

As you know from previous years, this is one contest I am active within, and I
also promote it to those lists where anyone has shown an interest. Those who
like to read Tolkien fanfiction nominate those stories we've particularly
enjoyed over the past year or so for awards, the authors give information on the
stories they agree to have run so they can be categorized, people spend months
reading as many stories as they can and commenting on them, and those that
garner the longest and most in depth comments or reviews win the awards. It's
not a perfect system, but it works!

I had eighteen stories nominated last year and earned a good number of awards
and honorable mentions as a result. Nominations just started on Saturday, and I
already have had six of my own stories nominated, and one "round robin" story in
which four different people cooperated to get a story written. Nominations
continue to the middle of June. and I'm already beginning to write
reviews--getting a leg up on the process, you see. It's an excellent means of
finding mostly excellently written stories (some dreck, I'll admit) and meeting
some wonderful people. I've nominated about sixteen stories written by other
writers so far--we can nominate up to twenty tales, you see.