Sir Julius Vogel Awards for New Zealand Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror

2011 Results Announced

The Science Fiction and Fantasy Association of New Zealand (SFFANZ) is pleased to announce the winners of this year’s Sir Julius Vogel Awards. Categories and winners in each category are listed.

Professional Awards Section

Best Novel - Adult

Joint Winners:

The Heir of Night by Helen Lowe (Orbit)

The Questing Road by Lyn McConchie (Tor Books)

Best Novel - Young Adult

Winner : Summer of Dreaming by Lyn McConchie (Cyberwizard Publications)

 Best Short Story

Winner: High Tide At Hot Water Beach by Paul Haines

(A Foreign Country: New Zealand Speculative Fiction), Random Static

  

Best Novella/Novelette

Winner: A Tale Of The Interferers – Hunger For Forbidden Flesh by Paul Haines

(Sprawl Anthology)

   

Best Collected Work

Winner : A Foreign Country: New Zealand Speculative Fiction

Edited by Anna Caro and Juliet Buchanan, Random Static

  

Best Professional Artwork

Winner: Frank Victoria – Tymon’s Flight cover

(HarperCollins Publishers Australia)
 

Best Dramatic Presentation – Long Form

Joint Winners:

This Is Not My Life – Pilot Episode

Directors: Rob Sarkies & Pete Salmon
Executive Producers: Gavin Strawhan, Rachel Lang, Steven O’Meagher & Tim White
Producer: Tim Sanders

Associate Producer: Polly Fryer

Kaitangata Twitch – Pilot Episode

Production Shed TV

Producer: Chris Hampson

Director/Executive Producer: Yvonne Mackay

Executive Producer: Dorothee Pinfold, Jan Haynes

Associate Producer: Margaret Mahy

Writer: Gavin Strawhan, Michael Bennett and Briar Grace-Smith

Actors: Te Waimarie Kessell, George Henare

Best Professional Publication

Winner: White Cloud Worlds Anthology

Edited by Paul Tobin

Best New Talent

Winner: Karen Healey

http://sffanz.sf.org.nz/sjv/sjvNominations-2011.shtml

Fan Awards Section

Best Fan Production

Winner: Doctor Who Podcast
Paul Mannering

Broken Sea Productions

Best Fan Writing

Winner: Jacqui Smith
Musings From Under The Mountain and Novazine Contributions

Best Publication

Winner: Novazine

Edited by Jacqui Smith

Special Awards

 Services to Fandom

Winner: Ross Temple
http://sffanz.sf.org.nz/sjv/sjvNominations-2011.shtml

Services to Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror

Winner: Simon Litten

http://sffanz.sf.org.nz/sjv/sjvNominations-2011.shtml

This year's Sir Julius Vogel Awards were voted on at ConText, the 2011 New Zealand National Science Fiction Convention, held at the Barrycourt Quality Hotel, Auckland, NZ. Results were announced to the ConText attendees on the evening of Sunday the 5^th of June after the convention banquet function.

The Sir Julius Vogel Awards were awarded to professionals and fans for work that was undertaken, completed or released during the 2010 calendar year. To see FULL nomination details, please go here: http://sffanz.sf.org.nz/sjv/sjvNominations-2011.shtml

The Sir Julius Vogel Awards are administered by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Association of New Zealand.