Approaching MEFA Deadlines for Nominators and Nominated Authors

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This is a friendly reminder: the last day to nominate a story for the 2007 awards is JULY 15. You will not be able to nominate a story after this.

If you are reading this and would like to nominate a story, you need to join the MEFAwards Yahoo group. Do this at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MEFAwards/ or by emailing MEFAwards-subscribe@yahoogroups.com. Please don't wait until the last minute; you will be sent log-in information to our voting and nominating website within a day or two of joining this Yahoo group.

The last day for authors to approve their nomination is JULY 22. if you have had a story nominated you will need to finish the form and email your liaison saying that you're okay with the nomination by July 22. If you aren't sure who your liaison is, you may emailmefasupport(at)gmail(dot)com.

Just so everyone is clear, the MEFA day is based on Greenwich MeanTime. For the current "official" time go to http://www.mefawards.net/MEFA2007/ and look at the "Page Served at:"line in the bottom-left corner. As I'm writing this, it is currently 5:41 in my time zone (U.S. eastern) on July 4, and the MEFA's official time is "2007-07-04 21:41:40 GMT".

Marta

Call for MEFA banners!

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There is a call for banners for this year's run of the Middle-earth fan fiction awards. If you are an artist and would like to help out, please read the following announcement of Marta, main administrator of the Middle-earth Fanfiction Awards:

Nautika asked me recently how to get involved writing banners, and I thought some other people might be interested, too.

In previous years banner-making was competitive. Meaning that there was a specific theme for first, second, and third place in every main category, and that if more than one banner was made for any "theme" we had a poll to select the "winning" banner. However, this year we decided to do things a little differently.

This year, we're doing things a little less structured. You can make a banner about anything Tolkien-themed that you want to. First Age through Fourth, any race or character. Also, you can make "neutral" banners, like with design elements but without specific pictures, or you can use photos that aren't particularly fannish but connect with Tolkien's universe somehow, like photos from the Hubble telescope or pictures of the beach. Be creative!

Requirements are listed at http://mefawards.net/MEFA2007/index.php?page=FAQbanners . Banners do have to be certain sizes, and they need to have the phrases "2007" and either "MEFAs" or "Middle-earth Fanfiction Awards" somewhere on them. After the awards are over, winners can request a banner and we will either add the category information for them or tell them how to add it themselves.

If you'd like to submit a banner, do so by emailing it to banners@mefawards.net.