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Middle Earth Fanfiction Awards 2008
The 2008 Middle-earth Fanfiction Awards are now open for nominations. You may nominate your favorite stories, poems, drabbles, essays, etc., through June 15.
The MEFAs are a review-based awards program for all Tolkien-inspired fanfic, including bookverse of all Tolkien's books; movieverse; and crossovers, both with other fandoms and with "real" history. Basically, if it's connected with Tolkien's world and meets our other eligibility requirements, we'd love to have it nominated. Our other eligibility criteria are, in general:
--- has not been nominated in the past*;
--- is available at a website where anyone can read it, without having to be a member of the site; and
--- fits the ratings described in the FAQ section below.
(*Note: Stories are eligible once as WIPs and once when completed, so if it was nominated while still a WIP and is now finished, it's eligible again.)
Every member can nominate up to twenty pieces by any author. That includes yourself.
Self-nominations are allowed and welcomed. You just need the author's email address and a public website where the story can be read. In order to nominate a story you will need to join the MEFAwards Yahoo group, and will then be sent log-in details to the website where you can nominate and vote for other stories.
Nominations will be open until June 15, but after that you can continue to vote on the stories that were nominated. To vote for a story, you enter a review of it that is visible to the author and other site visitors. The longer your review, the more points you give the story, up to ten points for
1,000 counted characters. So if you really were wowed by a story, you can give it a nice, juicy review; if you liked it but were not quite as impressed, you might write a shorter vote and give it less points, but still let the author know you liked it.
Voting is done at the same website where you nominate stories. Any MEFAwards member can vote for as many stories as they like (except their own, of course). Nominated authors can also vote, regardless of whether they're MEFAwards members. You can vote through November 30.
If you have any further questions, please check out the awards FAQ and rules at
FAQ and RULES
or email Marta at
mefasupport@mefawards.net
and she will answer your questions ASAP.
Thanks all and get those nominations in.
PS - The MEFA day is based on GMT, which may be different from your local time. For the current time, visit either of the links provided above and look for the "Page Served at:" link in the bottom left corner. This is the "official" awards time when that web page was displayed.
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