The Sir Julius Vogel Award
I’d like to give a shout-out to my good friend Ripley Patton, who just won the 2010 Sir Julius Vogel Award for best short story (for her piece Corrigan’s Exchange), tying with last year’s winner Grant Stone.
The Sir Julius Vogel Awards are New Zealand’s National Science Fiction Awards. To learn more about speculative fiction in New Zealand, and see the full list of winners, check out the web site of SpecFicNZ, the newly launched national association for creators, writers and editors of speculative fiction in or from New Zealand.
Who was Sir Julius Vogel, you ask? He was Prime Minister of New Zealand in 1889. His book Anno Domini 2000 — A Woman’s Destiny was the first full-length science fiction novel by a New Zealander, and portrayed a utopia of the future in which women were equal and held positions of authority. New Zealand was the first country to give women the vote — in 1893. How cool is that?
Big congrats Ripley, and all the 2010 SJV winners!
Kam,
Thanks so much for the shout out! Isn’t my award pretty?
Ripley
@Ripley
You’re welcome! And it’s one of the prettiest awards I’ve ever seen. Makes me want to move to NZ and start writing and submitting like a madwoman =D