Voting for 2025 Rose & Bay Awards: Fiction
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crowdfundingVoting is now CLOSED for the FICTION category of the 2025 Rose & Bay Awards. Thank you for your participation!
Voting is now OPEN for the Fiction category of the Rose & Bay Awards. This award recognizes exceptional writers. Everyone is encouraged to vote! Please read the complete details below, and then make your vote in the following poll. For more information about these awards, visit the 2025 Landing Page.
The 2025 Winner of the Rose & Bay Awards for the Fiction category isdialecticdreamer for 'Feathering the Nest'.
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 2024 winners of the Fiction category were "Final Friday" bynsfwords and "Magpie Monday" by dialecticdreamer and thus are not eligible this year.
What is the Rose & Bay Award?
The Rose & Bay Award was launched byysabetwordsmith (Elizabeth Barrette) in January 2009, and quickly gained additional volunteers. The Rose & Bay Award focuses on a growing business model known as "crowdfunding" or "cyberfunded creativity," which directly connects creative people and patrons of the arts online. This award recognizes exemplary projects and enthusiastic patrons. It currently features six categories: Art, Fiction, Poetry, Webcomic, Other Project, and Patron. (Other Project includes any cyberfunded creativity that isn't art, fiction, poetry, or webcomic -- or that spans more than one category -- such as movies, music, etc.
These are the handlers for 2025:
Art:fuzzyred Nominations for Art // Voting for Art
Fiction:curiosity Nominations for Fiction // >You Are Here<
Poetry:fuzzyred Nominations for Poetry // Voting for Poetry
Webcomic:ysabetwordsmith Nominations for Webcomic // Voting for Webcomic
Other Project:ysabetwordsmith Nominations for Other Projects // Voting for Other Projects
Patron:curiosity Nominations for Patrons // Voting for Patrons
The award period for eligible activities spans January 1-December 31, 2024.
The nomination period spans January 1-January 31, 2025.
The voting period spans February 1-February 28, 2025.
Voting Rules
1) Voters are encouraged (but not required) to browse the nominees before making a final decision; that's what the links are for, and the purpose of this award is to promote the splendor of crowdfunded projects. If you have not already explored the nominees, please refer back to the Fiction Nomination post.
2) Voting will take place via Dreamwidth non-transparent polling in this community, open to all. Everyone is eligible to vote; if you do not have a Dreamwidth account, you may leave a comment below with your full name and your vote. In each category, you may vote for as many entries as you consider worthy of the award. It helps to avoid voting for ALL of the entries. (There may need to be more than one poll question per category, and runoffs, in categories with a high number of nominees.) You may vote for your own project, or yourself as a patron.
3) Winners will be announced after the polling is completed.
How You Can Help
The Rose and Bay Award depends on your enthusiasm to make it a success. Here are some ways you can help that happen:
1) Cast your vote! Watch for the voting polls to appear for the other projects, and vote in those too.
2) Promote the Rose and Bay Award by blogging about it, emailing your friends, posting it on social networks, or any other method you can imagine. Everyone is encouraged to spread the word as far as possible whether you are a creator, a donor, or a curious bystander. Here is some art for promoting the Rose and Bay Award.
3) If you're a patron or audience member, link to your favorite nominees and then direct people to the relevant voting pages.
The 2025 Winner of the Rose & Bay Awards for the Fiction category is
dialecticdreamer for 'Feathering the Nest'.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 2024 winners of the Fiction category were "Final Friday" by
nsfwords and "Magpie Monday" by dialecticdreamer and thus are not eligible this year.What is the Rose & Bay Award?
The Rose & Bay Award was launched by
ysabetwordsmith (Elizabeth Barrette) in January 2009, and quickly gained additional volunteers. The Rose & Bay Award focuses on a growing business model known as "crowdfunding" or "cyberfunded creativity," which directly connects creative people and patrons of the arts online. This award recognizes exemplary projects and enthusiastic patrons. It currently features six categories: Art, Fiction, Poetry, Webcomic, Other Project, and Patron. (Other Project includes any cyberfunded creativity that isn't art, fiction, poetry, or webcomic -- or that spans more than one category -- such as movies, music, etc.These are the handlers for 2025:
Art:
fuzzyred Nominations for Art // Voting for ArtFiction:
curiosity Nominations for Fiction // >You Are Here<Poetry:
fuzzyred Nominations for Poetry // Voting for PoetryWebcomic:
ysabetwordsmith Nominations for Webcomic // Voting for WebcomicOther Project:
ysabetwordsmith Nominations for Other Projects // Voting for Other ProjectsPatron:
curiosity Nominations for Patrons // Voting for PatronsThe award period for eligible activities spans January 1-December 31, 2024.
The nomination period spans January 1-January 31, 2025.
The voting period spans February 1-February 28, 2025.
Voting Rules
1) Voters are encouraged (but not required) to browse the nominees before making a final decision; that's what the links are for, and the purpose of this award is to promote the splendor of crowdfunded projects. If you have not already explored the nominees, please refer back to the Fiction Nomination post.
2) Voting will take place via Dreamwidth non-transparent polling in this community, open to all. Everyone is eligible to vote; if you do not have a Dreamwidth account, you may leave a comment below with your full name and your vote. In each category, you may vote for as many entries as you consider worthy of the award. It helps to avoid voting for ALL of the entries. (There may need to be more than one poll question per category, and runoffs, in categories with a high number of nominees.) You may vote for your own project, or yourself as a patron.
3) Winners will be announced after the polling is completed.
How You Can Help
The Rose and Bay Award depends on your enthusiasm to make it a success. Here are some ways you can help that happen:
1) Cast your vote! Watch for the voting polls to appear for the other projects, and vote in those too.
2) Promote the Rose and Bay Award by blogging about it, emailing your friends, posting it on social networks, or any other method you can imagine. Everyone is encouraged to spread the word as far as possible whether you are a creator, a donor, or a curious bystander. Here is some art for promoting the Rose and Bay Award.
3) If you're a patron or audience member, link to your favorite nominees and then direct people to the relevant voting pages.
Poll #32632 Voting for 2025 Rose & Bay Awards: Fiction
This poll is anonymous.
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 7
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 7
Vote for your favorite Fiction Nominee!
View Answers
'The Neurodiversiverse: Alien Encounters - A Sci-Fi Anthology' - Thinking Ink Press
1 (14.3%)
'Anti-Caste Speculative Fiction' - Blaft Publications
1 (14.3%)
'An Anthology of Gujarati Pulp Fiction' - Blaft Publications
0 (0.0%)
'Feathering the Nest' - dialecticdreamer
5 (71.4%)