Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2007 09:25:43 -0500
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at press.jhu.edu>
To: <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>,<wsfa-forum at yahoogroups.com>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: That Nameless WSFA Short Fiction Award...
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

 [POSTED TO BOTH WSFA LISTS]

> eva.whitley at gmail.com 1/7/2007 9:24:39 PM >>>
>Michael Walsh wrote:
>> [POSTED TO BOTH WSFA LISTS]
>>
>> ... how about putting the proposed details somewhere - say on the
>web
>> page - where all of us can peruse it?
>>
>> Because of my travels, I wasn't able to attend many meetings after
>> Capclave, so I have yet to fully uderstand how this came about,
>why WSFA
>> should do something, and the like.
>>
>> So far it's just this nameless award.
>>
>> "Information, Number 6, we want information...."
>>
>
>For obvious reasons, I'd like it to be named after a long-time WSFA
>member with an interest in small press, so much so he wrote a book
>on
>the subject.
>
>So, is anyone else in favor of calling it the Mark Owings Small Press

>Award? --Eva Whitley

If one were to go down the Small Press road, then it really should be
The Chalker-Owings Small Press Award.  The irony being that probably
Mark Owings would object to who ever won, and that Jack wrote hardly any
short fiction.

But what is life without irony? <g>

mjw