I thought I would pass along the latest call for nominations for books, articles, and stories published in calendar year 2016! NLA: International is a pansexual leather/SM/fetish community organization with chapters in many cities.
CALL FOR NOMINATIONS
Nominations may be sent to the contact email at awards@nla-international.com
(Columbus, OH) — NLA-International, a leading organization for activists in the pansexual leather community, is now accepting nominations for its annual writing awards for excellence in SM/Leather/Fetish writing for books, articles, novels and short fiction, which were first published between 1 January 2016 and 31 December 2016. The deadline for nominations is 31 January 2017. The finalists will be announced in March 2017. The winners will be announced at the National Leather Association’s Annual General Meeting. The five award categories are:
Non-Fiction Book (Geoff Mains Award)
Non-Fiction Article (Cynthia Slater Award)
Novel (Pauline Reage Award)
Short Fiction (John Preston Award)
Anthology (Samois Award)
Eligibility for all awards (short fiction, novel, non-fiction book, non-fiction article and anthology) requires first time publication of writing in the 2016 calendar year.
If you or someone you know has published a book, article, or story dealing with any aspect of SM, Leather, Fetish, or Kink Sexuality please consider nominating it for one of the above awards. Authors and publishers are encouraged to nominate themselves by submitting copies of their work. Nominated works should foster education and promote awareness and a positive image of the Leather/SM/Fetish community. They should entertain and educate, while building awareness and tolerance of the community and showcasing the talents of its members. There are no submission fees, but the judges will require either print copies of the nominated work or a digital copy (PDF), PDF preferred.
NLA-I has convened a jury of readers whose number includes noted erotica writers, past award winners and leading community activists. The judges are rotated regularly and their names withheld until after judging is complete to prevent lobbying by nominees. If you are interested in being on this jury, please contact award chair Candi Anne (awards@nla-international.com) as soon as possible.
Now in their tenth year, the NLA-I’s writing awards have received widespread appreciation and support. A “leather first”, they have become the preeminent awards for SM, Leather, and Fetish writing. Past winners include Laura Antoniou, Gloria Brame, Jack Fritscher, Lee Harrington, Anneke Jacob, Jeff Mann, Jack Rinella, David Stein, Cecilia Tan, Tristan Taormino, Claire Thompson, Alyson Tyler, Rachel Kramer Bussel, Mollena Williams, Annie Cox and Elizabeth Coldwell.
Nominations may be sent to the contact email at awards@nla-international.com
The NLA Writing Awards (for best BDSM writing) now open for nominations
Thanks, Cecilia!
I’m a bit confused by this though:
“requires first time publication of writing in the 2016 ”
Do you mean that the work has to have been published for the first time in 2016? Or that this is the author’s first publication?
Thanks!
It means the work (whether a book, article, anthology, whatever) must be first published in 2016. The NLA doesn’t have an award for “first time author” or anything like that.