Hello Whyvillians! I'd like to announce the launch of the very first Whyville Times Awards! Have you ever seen one of "those" articles which just seem to stand out from all of the rest of the articles for how interesting or well written they are? These are awards to honor those outstanding articles submitted to the Whyville Times this year. You've got plenty of awards to choose from.
Article of the Year - Article of the Year will be simply awarded to the best article this year. Whether it's informative, entertaining, useful, provocative or just plain well-written, this article should stand out amongst all of the other articles this year.
Contribution to the Times Award - The purpose of this award is to recognize someone who has given a lot to the Whyville Times this year. This could be through articles, poems, BBS discussions . . . you name it.
Breakthrough Article of the Year - This could be someone's first or second article which has really stood out amongst articles even by accomplished Times writers. This award is to commemorate not-so-popular writers who have done marvelous jobs.
Leila Science Award - The Leila Science Award, named after Whyville's own scientist Dr. Leila, is to honor an outstanding, informative and original scientific article.
Interview of the Year - This award is to recognize some of the people who do real, quality interviews. Those interviews that are worth reading and where the interviewer has such good interview technique, they can get the perfect set of information.
Collaboration of the Year - It's hard to write an article on your own let alone to do it with more than one person! This award is for outstanding articles written by two or more people.
Help Article of the Year - This is for those articles designed to help the younger generation of Whyville figure out all of the quirks of Whyville. This should be very helpful, informative and well-written.
Gallery Article of the Year - This is an award for an outstanding gallery article. It's for that person who has mastered the art of the PrintScreen button and MSPaint or someone who manages to find some really good screen shots and uses them to enhance an already excellent article. Other content of the article counts too!
Report of the Year - This is for an article reporting on an event in Whyville that has not only informed us but entertained us as well.
Entertainment Prize - This prize is for those people who have really entertained us this year. Those articles that always kept us smiling.
The Poetry Prize - For an outstanding poem this year. One where the poet has truly grasped the art of poetry, an original idea, or something that just makes you go, "Wow!"
The Prose Prize - For an outstanding piece of Creative Writing this year. This is mainly aimed at fictional stories but any piece of Creative Writing can be included. This has to be interesting, engaging and well-written.
Award for Outstanding Column - This is to recognize a column that is consistently of the highest standard or maybe one that didn't start off as anything special but grew into something amazing.
Here's how it will work: over the next week a judging panel of esteemed Times Writers and two City Workers will be selecting the nominees for the five top articles in each category. Next week, the finalists will be announced. Then, starting the week of December 23rd you'll be able to vote from the nominess for your pick in each category. The winners will then be announced at the beginning of January. I've heard some pretty funky rumors about what the winners of these awards will receive but that's a secret *winks*.
Good luck everyone!!
Cobd
Editor's Note: Please join me in thanking Cobd for coming up with this idea and putting forth the work to get the Times Awards up and running.
