Nominations for 2026 Rose & Bay Award: Patron

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Nominations are now OPEN for the Patron category of the Rose & Bay Award. This award honors excellence in creative crowdfunding, and this category recognizes diverse media. 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 under this post.

Note: A project or person which wins one year is not eligible in the same category for the next year. After that, it is eligible again. In the Patron category, mama_kestrel for "Magpie Monday" by dialecticdreamer is not eligible.

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Nominations for 2026 Rose & Bay Award: Fiction

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Nominations are OPEN for the Fiction category of the Rose & Bay Award. This award honors excellence in creative crowdfunding, and this category recognizes exceptional writers. 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 under this post.

Note: A project or person which wins one year is not eligible in the same category for the next year. After that, it is eligible again. The 2025 winner of the Fiction category was "Feathering the Nest" by dialecticdreamer aka Sarah Williams.
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Nominations for the 2026 Rose & Bay Award: Webcomic

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Nominations are now OPEN for the Webcomic category of the Rose & Bay Award. This award honors excellence in creative crowdfunding, and this category recognizes webcomics. 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 under this post.

Note: A project or person which wins one year is not eligible in the same category for the next year. After that, it is eligible again. In the Webcomic category, "Bronwyn: Short Story Collection" by Isaac George won last year.

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Nomination for the 2026 Rose and Bay Award: Other Project

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Nominations are now OPEN for the Other Project category of the Rose & Bay Award. This award honors excellence in creative crowdfunding, and this category recognizes exceptional works that don't fit neatly into other categories. 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 under this post.

Note: A project or person which wins one year is not eligible in the same category for the next year. After that, it is eligible again. In the Other Project category, "The Mending Circle" by Martin Nerurkarwon last year.

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Nominations for the 2026 Rose & Bay Award: Poetry

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Nominations are now OPEN for the Poetry category of the Rose & Bay Award. This award honors excellence in creative crowdfunding, and this category recognizes 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 under this post.

Note: A project or person which wins one year is not eligible in the same category for the next year. After that, it is eligible again. In the Poetry category, last year's winners were a TIE between The Neurodiversiverse: Alien Encounters - A Sci-Fi Anthology by Thinking Ink Press and The Haiku Foundation by The Haiku Foundation.



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Nominations for the 2026 Rose & Bay Award: Art

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Nominations are now OPEN for the Art category of the Rose & Bay Award. This award honors excellence in creative crowdfunding, and this category recognizes 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 under this post.

Note: A project or person which wins one year is not eligible in the same category for the next year. After that, it is eligible again. In the Art category, last year's winner was "Anubis & Bastet ☆ Pharaoh's Guardians ☆ Plush" by Kayla AKA



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