{"id":683,"date":"2013-04-11T16:33:28","date_gmt":"2013-04-11T06:33:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/hellfireclub\/?p=683"},"modified":"2013-04-11T17:28:12","modified_gmt":"2013-04-11T07:28:12","slug":"norma-k-hemming-award-judging-complete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/hellfireclub\/2013\/04\/11\/norma-k-hemming-award-judging-complete\/","title":{"rendered":"Norma K. Hemming Award judging complete"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/hellfireclub\/2013\/04\/11\/norma-k-hemming-award-judging-complete\/hemming4\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-684\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-684\" src=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/hellfireclub\/files\/2013\/04\/Hemming4-148x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"148\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>Much of my time over the last two or three\u00a0months has been spent in reading, considering, and (privately) debating\u00a0the large pile of material submitted for the annual <a href=\"http:\/\/home.vicnet.net.au\/~asff\/hemming.htm\">Norma K. Hemming Award<\/a>, for which I\u00a0am one\u00a0of the four jurors (along with Sarah Endacott, Rob Gerrand, and Tess Williams). The award will be announced in a couple of weeks at the annual national science fiction convention, here in Australia (in this case, Conflux 9&#8230;\u00a0to be held in\u00a0Canberra on 25-28 April).<\/p>\n<p>British-Australian author (and much-celebrated sf fan in her time) <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Norma_K._Hemming\">Norma K. Hemming <\/a>(1928-1960) died far too young &#8211; she had the potential to become a major figure in the canon\u00a0of\u00a0Australian science fiction. I&#8217;ve tried to do\u00a0justice to her sf work in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Strange-Constellations-History-Australian-Contributions\/dp\/0313251126\/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1365662109&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=Strange+Constellations\"><em>Strange Constellations: A History of Australian Science Fiction<\/em><\/a> and (in slightly more detail) in an article co-authored with Sean McMullen, who deserves much of the credit for resurrecting her reputation.<\/p>\n<p>The Norma K. Hemming Award celebrates\u00a0excellence in the\u00a0 exploration\u00a0of the themes of race, gender, sexuality, class, and disability in\u00a0science fiction and fantasy writing (or related artwork or media). Winning or shortlisted entries will inevitably need to have a strong thematic focus in at least one areas, as well as demonstrating artistic excellence. We had an exceptionally strong field this time, from work published in 2012, but we&#8217;ve now been able to settle on a short list and a winner. I&#8217;m excited to have reached this point, and looking forward to making further announcements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Much of my time over the last two or three\u00a0months has been spent in reading, considering, and (privately) debating\u00a0the large pile of material submitted for the annual Norma K. Hemming Award, for which I\u00a0am one\u00a0of the four jurors (along with Sarah Endacott, Rob Gerrand, and Tess Williams). The award will be announced in a couple [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,98,30],"tags":[233],"class_list":["post-683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aesthetics","category-books-2","category-culture","tag-norma-k-hemming-award"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/hellfireclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/hellfireclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/hellfireclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/hellfireclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/hellfireclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/hellfireclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/hellfireclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/hellfireclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/hellfireclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}