One point of interest is that the site/project Archive of our own has been nominated for Best Related Work, even though it is effectively a repository site for fanfiction. Seems like an...
One point of interest is that the site/project Archive of our own has been nominated for Best Related Work, even though it is effectively a repository site for fanfiction. Seems like an interesting decision and I wonder if fellow users approve or disapprove of the notion of considering fanfiction or fanfic related work for literary awards.
So AO3 itself would be considered noteworthy not for the fanfic itself, since that would be an Anthology, but as a institution of Fanfiction itself. No doubt that Fanfiction has changed "the meta"...
Best Related Work: Awarded to a work related to the field of science fiction, fantasy, or fandom, appearing for the first time during the previous calendar year or which has been substantially modified during the previous calendar year. The type of works eligible include, but are not limited to, collections of art, works of literary criticism, books about the making of a film or TV series, biographies and so on, provided that they do not qualify for another category. Specifically, the Constitution says that any work in this category must be “either non-fiction or, if fictional, is noteworthy primarily for aspects other than the fictional text, and which is not eligible in any other category.” Nonfiction collections are eligible here, but fiction anthologies generally are not because all of the individual works within the anthology are eligible in one of the “story” categories. There is no category for “Best Anthology.”
So AO3 itself would be considered noteworthy not for the fanfic itself, since that would be an Anthology, but as a institution of Fanfiction itself. No doubt that Fanfiction has changed "the meta" of authorship, and I'm sure many a published writer have gotten their start there. Plus if it was nominated for a Hugo, it's eligible for at least a Hugo by definition.
One point of interest is that the site/project Archive of our own has been nominated for Best Related Work, even though it is effectively a repository site for fanfiction. Seems like an interesting decision and I wonder if fellow users approve or disapprove of the notion of considering fanfiction or fanfic related work for literary awards.
So AO3 itself would be considered noteworthy not for the fanfic itself, since that would be an Anthology, but as a institution of Fanfiction itself. No doubt that Fanfiction has changed "the meta" of authorship, and I'm sure many a published writer have gotten their start there. Plus if it was nominated for a Hugo, it's eligible for at least a Hugo by definition.