2022 Darrell Awards Finalist Works

Posted on March 6, 2022 by Tim Gatewood

We previously announced the names of the authors whose works made them Finalists for a 2022 Darrell Award in one or more category.

Now, it’s time to announce the works that have been chosen for recognition.

Best Midsouth Novel

The Dragons of Styx by John E. Siers
The Ferryman by John E. Siers
The Girl Who Had No Shadow by John and Victoria Babb
Serpent’s Mark by Beth Alvarez

Best Midsouth Novella

Madam & The Map: A Journey in Five Movements by Sheree Renée Thomas (in Nine Bar Blues collection)
Shadows Before Sunrise by Melissa Olthoff (in It Takes All Kinds anthology)

Best Midsouth Short Story

Dead Man’s Hand by Phyllis Appleby (in Lies Along the Mississippi anthology)
Five-Six-Seven-Eight by Jim Paavola (in Lies Along the Mississippi anthology)
The Orisha’s Handmaiden by Angelyn Sherrod (in Lies Along the Mississippi anthology)
Never Alone by Angelyn Sherrod (in Lies Along the Mississippi anthology)
Shanequa’s Blues — Or Another Shotgun Lullaby by Sheree Renée Thomas (in Nine Bar Blues collection)
Well Being by Elden Lee

There were no nominations received for Young Adult or Other Media works.

As previously announced, Sheree Renee Thomas is the 2022 winner of our Dal Coger Memorial Hall of Fame. See that annoucement here.

Thanks to the generosity of the MidSouthCon Board, the Darrell Awards Jury is pleased to invite each of the named authors to be our guests at the Awards Banquet at MidSouthCon on Saturday, March 26, 2022.

Each of the Finalists will have a one day (Saturday only) pass and a Banquet ticket waiting for them at Convention Registration on Saturday March 26.

For details on MidSouthCon, please see their website at midsouthcon.org

The winners will each receive a plaque. The First Runners Up and other Finalists will each receive a framed certificate if they are present at the Awards Banquet.

For any winners who do not attend the Banquet, their plaque will be shipped to them.

For Finalists who do not attend, their certificate will be mailed to them. (Those mailed will be unframed due to the expenses involved with shipping.)

Congratulations to all the Finalists. Please join us at the Banquet to see who won — or check back here after the Convention is over for that announcement.

2017 Darrell Award Nominations are Closed

Posted on January 9, 2017 by Tim Gatewood

The deadline for nominations for the 2017 Darrell Awards has passed and nominations are now closed.

The Jury is busy reading and watching and critiquing the nominees. We are pushing to have a list of Finalists ready by March 1st.

If you’ve ever won a Darrell Award or been a Finalist and you’re planning to attend Saturday of MidSouthCon 35 in late March, you’re invited to participate in the annual Darrell Awards panel. This is to spread the news about your works and to build some excitement about the Awards before they’re presented at the Banquet later that day. Please contact us at memphissf at cs dot com for details.

Of course, if your work is chosen as a Finalist this year, we’ll contact you to let you know (if we have your contact info), as all current-year Finalists receive one free pass to MidSouthCon on Saturday and one free Banquet ticket.

So, check back here after March 1st for the announcement of the 2017 Finalists for the Darrell Awards.

Deadline Passed, Deadlines Approaching

Posted on December 25, 2015 by Darrell Awards

As mentioned in previous posts here, the Darrell Awards operates on the basis of 3 deadlines. The first of those has passed — the publication deadline (October 31st).

The second is approaching — the nomination deadline. If you know of any work which you believe is eligible, you have until January 1, 2016, to nominate it. After that, it will be too late for it to be considered.

So, if you know of any eligible works, please NOMINATE them before 1-1-16.

We are accepting nominations until 1-1-16 for eligible works in novel, novella, short story, and Young Adult categories, as well as for the Coger Memorial Hall of Fame.