My understanding is that you need four things for an award:
* A group to organize the giving of it, including appointing judges/collecting votes, determining eligibility, and making and publicizing the presentation. The group doesn't have to be a legal nonprofit organization but being attached to one certainly doesn't hurt.
* Funding for that group and its costs, such as crafting a physical object to give to winners and putting on an award ceremony. This is easier if you have a nonprofit group to accept the donations and make them tax-deductible.
* Sufficient works to choose from. Usually not a problem, but in this case it might be--hardly anyone writes funny fantasy at the moment, and very few of the people who are doing it do it well enough to be award-worthy. (In my opinion.)
* Publicity, which leads to more works being submitted, more funding, and more volunteers. This is also easier if the group has some sort of official status.
For the first, you can either form a group to create the award or petition an existing group to do so. The rest will follow from that decision.
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Date: 2015-03-12 04:48 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-03-12 11:54 pm (UTC)* A group to organize the giving of it, including appointing judges/collecting votes, determining eligibility, and making and publicizing the presentation. The group doesn't have to be a legal nonprofit organization but being attached to one certainly doesn't hurt.
* Funding for that group and its costs, such as crafting a physical object to give to winners and putting on an award ceremony. This is easier if you have a nonprofit group to accept the donations and make them tax-deductible.
* Sufficient works to choose from. Usually not a problem, but in this case it might be--hardly anyone writes funny fantasy at the moment, and very few of the people who are doing it do it well enough to be award-worthy. (In my opinion.)
* Publicity, which leads to more works being submitted, more funding, and more volunteers. This is also easier if the group has some sort of official status.
For the first, you can either form a group to create the award or petition an existing group to do so. The rest will follow from that decision.