Voting for 2025 Rose & Bay Awards: Patron
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crowdfundingVoting is now CLOSED for the Patron category of the 2025 Rose & Bay Awards. Thank you for your participation!
Voting is now OPEN for the Patron category of the Rose & Bay Awards. This award honors excellence in creative crowdfunding, and this category recognizes the people who support projects financially, among other ways. 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.
The 2025 Winner in the Patron category of the Rose & Bay Awards ismama_kestrel for 'Magpie Monday'.
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 2024, for the Patron category,librarygeek for the Poetry Fishbowl won, thus neither are 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 // Voting for Fiction
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 // >You Are Here<
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 Patron 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 in the Patron category of the Rose & Bay Awards is
mama_kestrel for 'Magpie Monday'.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 2024, for the Patron category,
librarygeek for the Poetry Fishbowl won, thus neither are 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 // Voting for FictionPoetry:
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 // >You Are Here<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 Patron 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 #32633 Voting for 2025 Rose & Bay Awards: Patron
This poll is anonymous.
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 8
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 8
Vote for your favorite Patron.
View Answers
fuzzyred - The Poetry Fishbowl
1 (12.5%)
Anthony Barrette - The Poetry Fishbowl
2 (25.0%)
zianuray - The Poetry Fishbowl
0 (0.0%)
ysabetwordsmith - Coven & Crucible: Unbound
1 (12.5%)
mama_kestrel - Magpie Monday
6 (75.0%)