{"id":13133,"date":"2012-04-17T22:32:09","date_gmt":"2012-04-17T10:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=13133"},"modified":"2012-04-19T00:29:34","modified_gmt":"2012-04-18T12:29:34","slug":"the-2012-sir-julius-vogel-award-shortlist-is-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2012\/04\/17\/the-2012-sir-julius-vogel-award-shortlist-is-out\/","title":{"rendered":"The 2012 Sir Julius Vogel Award Shortlist Is Out!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2011\/12\/31\/the-best-of-on-anything-really-2011-my-personal-highlights\/sirjva-3\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10757\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10757 alignright\" title=\"SirJVA\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/SirJVA.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"216\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/SirJVA.jpg 216w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/SirJVA-81x150.jpg 81w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/SirJVA-162x300.jpg 162w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 216px) 100vw, 216px\" \/><\/a>Exciting news&#8212;the <strong>Sir Julius Vogel Awards 2012<\/strong> shortlist is now out and I am very pleased to see such a diverse list.<\/p>\n<h3>You can read the full list <a href=\"http:\/\/sffanz.sf.org.nz\/sjv\/sjvNominations-2012.html\">here<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Congratulations to all the finalists: I am thrilled for you all! (And would acknowledge you all here, except that I would have to retype the whole list&#8212;apologies for my faint heartedness!)<\/p>\n<p>But personal friends I would particularly like to congratulate include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/maryvictoria.net\/\">Mary Victoria<\/a>, whose novels <em><strong>Samiha&#8217;s Song<\/strong><\/em> and <em><strong>Oracle&#8217;s Fire<\/strong><\/em> have both made the ballot for Best Novel<\/li>\n<li><strong>K. D. Berry<\/strong> for <em><strong>Dragons Away<\/strong><\/em>, also a finalist for Best Novel; as well as for the Best New Talent award<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/leemurraywriter\/biography\"><strong>Lee Murray<\/strong><\/a>, whose <em><strong>Battle Of The Birds<\/strong><\/em> is in the race for Best Youth Novel<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/anafflictionofpoetry.blogspot.com\/\">Alicia Ponder<\/a> for <em><strong>Frankie And The Netball Clone<\/strong><\/em>, up for Best Short Story<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/just-cassie.com\/\">Cassie Hart<\/a> &amp; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.annacaro.org\/\">Anna Caro<\/a>, editors of <em><strong>Tales for Canterbury<\/strong><\/em>, a finalist for Best Collected Work<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/frankvictoria-lepicte.blogspot.com\/\">Frank Victoria<\/a>, for the cover of <em><strong>Oracle&#8217;s Fire<\/strong><\/em>, for Best Professional Artwork<\/li>\n<li><strong>June Young, Simon Litten,<\/strong> &amp; <strong>Broderick Wells<\/strong> for Fan Writing<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/rippatton.livejournal.com\/\">Ripley Patton<\/a> for Services to Science Fiction, Fandom and Horror<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A wonderful achievement&#8212;and again, my heartiest congratulations to all the finalists on the official list, <a href=\"http:\/\/sffanz.sf.org.nz\/sjv\/sjvNominations-2012.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exciting news&#8212;the Sir Julius Vogel Awards 2012 shortlist is now out and I am very pleased to see such a diverse list. You can read the full list here Congratulations to all the finalists: I am thrilled for you all! (And would acknowledge you all here, except that I would have to retype the whole [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-awards"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13133"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13135,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13133\/revisions\/13135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}