{"id":965,"date":"2010-08-13T13:32:40","date_gmt":"2010-08-13T01:32:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=965"},"modified":"2010-08-13T13:32:40","modified_gmt":"2010-08-13T01:32:40","slug":"sir-julius-vogel-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2010\/08\/13\/sir-julius-vogel-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Sir Julius Vogel Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Sir Julius Vogel Awards<\/strong><\/a> are awarded annually by the Science Fiction & Fantasy Association of New Zealand<\/strong><\/a> (SFFANZ) and members of the National Science Fiction Convention<\/strong>—which this year is Au Contraire<\/strong><\/a>, to be held in Wellington over the weekend of 27-29 August (i.e. not many sleeps now.)<\/p>\n

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Sir Julius Vogel Award Trophy<\/p><\/div>\n

The Sir Julius Vogel Awards are given “to recognise excellence in science fiction and fantasy by New Zealanders and New Zealand residents” and include both professional and fan categories. Recipients of the awards receive a trophy with their name, the year and the award type, designed by Weta Workshop<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

This year’s list includes an impressive range of known authors in the professional categories, such as Juliet Marillier<\/a>, Nalini Singh<\/a><\/strong> and Russell Kirkpatrick<\/strong><\/a>, for Best Novel: Adult<\/strong>, as well as Ella West<\/a>, Mandy Hager<\/a>, Brian Falkner<\/a><\/strong> and James Norcliffe<\/strong><\/a> for Best Novel: Young Adult<\/strong>. (And, of course, Thornspell<\/em><\/strong><\/a> won this award last year<\/a>. \ud83d\ude42 )<\/p>\n

But there are also a range of newer names, particularly in the short fiction and novella categories, including Ripley Patton<\/strong><\/a>, whom I recently interviewed for Women on Air, Plains 96.9 FM<\/strong>—I posted a link to the podcast here<\/a> <\/strong>yesterday.<\/p>\n

And let’s not forget Voyagers Science Fiction Poetry of New Zealand<\/strong><\/em><\/a>, which I have already mentioned a couple of times on this blog, which is up for Best Collected Work<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

You can see the full list of finalists for yourself here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Although final voting closes at the convention for attending members, the closing date for those not attending is 20 August<\/strong>—so if you are keen to support a particular author or work, you need to think about voting now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Sir Julius Vogel Awards are awarded annually by the Science Fiction & Fantasy Association of New Zealand (SFFANZ) and members of the National Science Fiction Convention—which this year is Au Contraire, to be held in Wellington over the weekend of 27-29 August (i.e. not many sleeps now.) The Sir Julius Vogel Awards are given […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-awards","category-other-writers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965","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=965"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":977,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965\/revisions\/977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}