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Category Archives: Awards
Patience, Grasshopper
I’m still working on the audio track from last week’s event with Stephen Quinn. Originally running one hour and forty minutes, I’m trying to get it down to something more reasonable, as well as remove any un-necessary nattering on my part. the end result ought to be nothing but informative yummy goodness about how to make your information appeal to the ever-cynical, un-caring, heartless bastards of the media.
In the meantime (and partly because none of the media seems to give a damn about my exciting news), have a look OVER HERE about how Atomic Fez Publishing has been short-listed for Best Small Press by the British Fantasy Society’s awards.
Sidney Awards available monthly
Sidney Hillman Foundation logo
This is sweet, particularly given that ALL WordPress.com blogs are technically “published” in the US and thus qualify for consideration. The Sidney Hillman foundation, source of the prestigious, annual Hillman award, is now offering the Sidney, a monthly award of $500. Here are the deets from the application page:
Sidney Award Nominations
For more than 50 years, the Sidney Hillman Foundation has awarded, annually, the prestigious Hillman Prizes in Journalism. In 2009, the Foundation inaugurated the Sidney, a monthly award for an outstanding piece of socially-conscious journalism. We are looking for investigative work that fosters social and economic justice.
The Sidney is awarded monthly to a piece published in a magazine, newspaper, on a news site, or a blog in the United States. Â Television and radio segments broadcast in the United States are also eligible, as are published photography series.
Deadlines are the last day of the month in which the piece was published/aired. In the case of magazines, please nominate according to the issue date on the publication, not when it first appeared.
You may submit your own work or nominate someone else’s.
Whenever possible, please provide the full text of the story you are nominating, either in the body of your email or as an attachment, as well as the URL.
The Foundation will announce each month’s winner on the 15th of the following month. Recipients will be awarded $500, a bottle of union-made wine, and our certificate designed by New Yorker cartoonist, Edward Sorel.
I love that “union-made wine.” That says so much, right there. You have to fill out the form on the page, so don’t hang around here, go do it!
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