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Sir Julius Vogel Awards

About the Awards

Nominations / Voting

The Sir Julius Vogel awards are fan voted awards for various endeavours in the science fiction, fantasy or horror fields. Professional nominations can be for novels, short stories, art and others. Fan nominations can be for fanzine, writing, art, Services to Fandom, Services to Science Fiction and more.

Voting on the Sir Julius Vogel Awards takes place before and at the National Science Fiction convention each year. You are eligible to vote if you are a member of SFFANZ, OR a member of the National Science Fiction convention that year. You are only entitled to one vote, even if you belong to both.

About the Name

Sir Julius Vogel was a Prime Minister of New Zealand, and wrote in 1889 what was probably the first full length Science Fiction novel by a New Zealander, Anno Domini 2000 - A Woman's Destiny.

This book was strongly centred around New Zealand, and was a utopian view of the future in which women would hold many positions of authority. "Predictions" which have come true...

At OdysseyCon in 2001, the proposal was made to have the fan awards called the Sir Julius Vogel Awards. The vote by the fans was near unanimous in favour of the name.

On Sunday, 23rd March, the Sir Julius Vogel Awards for 2008 were announced

A full list of the winners and nominees can be found here.

Voting this year took place at the 2008 National Science Fiction convention, Conjunction.

Stay tuned later this year when we open nominations for the 2009 Sir Julius Vogel Awards.

If you would like to see some suggestions and guidelines on how to make nominations, you will find a useful document here.

Rules and Criteria for the Sir Julius Vogel Awards
At the 2008 AGM of SFFANZ, the rules for the SJVs were accepted by a vote of the membership. 

The members have also asked for further public discussion of the rules in order to clarify various issues that have arisen over the last 7 years. The SFFANZ board are currently deciding on the best way to carry out this discussion. It is likely that a combination of email and webpages will be used. We are concious of  providing options for people in how they want to take part in the discussion.

We will provide details on how to take part in this discussion shortly. Members will be contacted directly, and the details will be made public here.

The discussion can be viewed at sffanz_discuss.

Previous Sir Julius Vogel Awards held in:
- 2008
- 2007
- 2006
- 2005
- 2004
- 2003
- 2002

The Trophy

Each winner will receive a trophy with their name, the year and the award type.
Below are detailed renderings of the design for the trophy.

Below are the designs that have been used to etch the trophy.
Thanks to Creative New Zealand, Brownstone Design, Te Papa and Te Maori for their input on this design.
SFFANZ is a non-profit organisation, designed to bring together fans of the fantastic in New Zealand

Contact us by email at: enquiries@sffanz.sf.org.nz