Nominations for Rose and Bay Award: Webcomic Category

[ysabetwordsmith.livejournal.com]

Nominations are now CLOSED. The voting period is February 1-29, 2012.  Vote for webcomics!

Nominations are now open for the Webcomic category of the Rose and Bay Award.  This award honors excellence in creative crowdfunding, and this category recognizes superlative artwork and writing in the field of webcomics which combine visual and textual elements of storytelling.  Everyone is encouraged to make nominations and, later, to vote.  Icons and banners are available to help spread the word.  Please read the complete details below, and then make your nominations in a comment on this post.

NOTE: The 2011 winner, Khaos Komix  by Tab Kimton aka khaoskomix is not eligible for nomination in 2012.

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Nominations for Rose and Bay Award: Poetry

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Nominations are now CLOSED. The voting period is February 1-29, 2012.  Vote for poetry!

Nominations are now open for the Poetry category of the Rose and Bay Award.  This award honors excellence in creative crowdfunding, and this category recognizes superlative writing in the field of poetry.  Everyone is encouraged to make nominations and, later, to vote.  Icons and banners are available to help spread the word.  Please read the complete details below, and then make your nominations in a comment on this post.

NOTE: The 2011 winner, Poetry Fishbowl at The Wordsmith's Forge  by Elizabeth Barrette aka ysabetwordsmith, is not eligible for nomination in 2012.

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Rose & Bay Awards open for nomination!

[ysabetwordsmith]

I have posted the first two nomination posts in the 2012 Rose & Bay Awards for the categories of Poetry and Webcomic.  I have a volunteer for Art, who is also willing to cover Fiction if necessary, so you can watch for those to appear too.  If nobody else is willing to manage Other Project and Patron this year, I'll do them, but I'm eligible there so I'd really rather not.  

Please drop by and make your nominations.  The Webcomic post has a list of places you can find comics to browse.  I couldn't find a similar list for poetry so if you know of good places to find that, please let me know.  Later, after all the nomination posts are up, I'll make a post that links all of them so you'll have an easy place to refer your friends.

Free small art

[anke]

I'm offering free/crowdfunded postcard-sized or other small format sketches. Tip incentives include upgrades to ink or colour, and getting the original in the mail.

Details and a place to comment can be found on my website or mirrored here on dreamwidth.

Free small art

[ankewehner.livejournal.com]

I'm offering free/crowdfunded postcard-sized or other small format sketches. Tip incentives include upgrades to ink or colour, and getting the original in the mail.

Details and a place to comment can be found on my website or mirrored here on dreamwidth.

My Crowdfunding Activity from 2011

[ysabetwordsmith.livejournal.com]

I've decided to try tallying up all the stuff I've done with cyberfunded creativity in 2011 ...

I served as a maintainer of the Crowdfunding communities on Dreamwidth and on LiveJournal. I organized a bunch of posts on different topics during Spotlight week on LJ. I wrote about a dozen essays on crowdfunding, which you can read in the Crowdfunding section of my website, mostly filed under "How To." I also did post on "Let's Make Some Bookstores" to encourage people to feature bookstores in their crowdfunding projects.

I organized the 2011 Rose & Bay Awards, recognizing excellence in crowdfunding across the categories of Art, Fiction, Poetry, Webcomic, Other Project, and Patron. My Poetry Fishbowl project won the Poetry category, and there's a post listing all the 2011 winners.

In 2011 I added a "from my prompts" tag on my LJ so folks can see what people have created based on my inspiration. If you enjoy my ideas when I'm writing, you'll probably enjoy the literature, art, and other goodies that other folks have developed based on something I suggested.

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My Crowdfunding Activity in 2011

[ysabetwordsmith]

I've made an extensive post about my crowdfunding activity in 2011 over on my LiveJournal.  It lists my overall activities, events, projects I've supported as a patron and a fan, then my own projects.  I encourage other folks to post a list of your activities in 2011 also!