{"id":27832,"date":"2015-01-15T06:30:48","date_gmt":"2015-01-14T17:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=27832"},"modified":"2015-01-14T21:12:17","modified_gmt":"2015-01-14T08:12:17","slug":"the-sir-julius-vogel-awards-time-to-get-nominating-starting-with","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2015\/01\/15\/the-sir-julius-vogel-awards-time-to-get-nominating-starting-with\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sir Julius Vogel Awards & Time To Get Nominating, Starting With…"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Rebecca<\/a>

Rebecca Fisher<\/p><\/div>\n

…Rebecca Fisher for Best Fan Writing, don’t ya reckon?<\/p>\n

On Sunday, I remembered to post a reminder<\/a> that it’s Sir Julius Vogel Awar<\/a>d nomination time—the Sir Julius Vogel Awards being given annually by SFFANZ <\/a>for achievement in New Zealand Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror.<\/p>\n

I listed the categories on Sunday as well and one of them is for Best Fan Writing—and this year I’ve nominated Rebecca.<\/p>\n

\"Fans<\/a>

June Young (left) with Simon Litton & Trudi Canavan, Natcon’12<\/p><\/div>\n

I would like to thank June Young, a fellow SFFANZ member and follower of Rebecca’s regular Big Worlds On Small Screens<\/a> (BWOSS) column, for prompting me to do this. Since BWOSS appears on my blog, I should have been ‘all over it already’ and can only claim post-edit-completion fuzzy brain by way of an excuse. Needless to say, once June had given the fuzzy brain a nudge, I could only wonder at my own lack of focus.<\/p>\n

Here’s why:<\/p>\n