Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2012 19:27:03 -0400
Subject: [WSFA] When The Hugo Final Ballot Will Be Announced, Fwd: Chicon 7 Press Release #18 - Chicon 7 Hugo Finalists to be Announced on Saturday, April 7
From: Michael Walsh <walshmichaelj at gmail.com>
To: wsfa-forum at yahoogroups.com, WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

I will note the the Valente story WSFA Press published last year is up
for a Nebula.  Let's hope it makes the Hugo ballot also.

mjw

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Date: Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 6:47 PM
Subject: [WSFA] [smofs] Chicon 7 Press Release #18 - Chicon 7 Hugo Finalists
to be Announced on Saturday, April 7
To: SMOFS Mailing list <smofs at lists.sflovers.org>

Chicon 7, the 70th World Science Fiction Convention,
Chicago, IL - August 30 to September 3, 2012

press at chicon.org
www.chicon.org

Postal queries to: Chicon 7, P.O. Box 13, Skokie, IL 60076

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Chicago, Illinois, USA - Chicon 7, the 70th World Science Fiction
Convention ("Worldcon"), is delighted to report that the finalists for
this year's Hugo Awards and John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer
will be announced on Saturday, April 7, starting at 3 p.m. CDT. We are
also proud to announce that this year's number of nomination ballots
set a new record.

The nominations announcement will be made simultaneously at five
conventions in the United States and Europe. Science fiction fans
around the world will be able to follow the announcement live and
celebrate the authors, editors, artists, and works that have been
selected as the best of 2011.

Conventions taking part in the announcement are:

- Norwescon 35, one of the Pacific Northwest's premier science fiction
and fantasy conventions, at Seatac, WA (1 p.m. PDT)

- Leprecon 38, Arizona's annual science fiction and fantasy
convention, at Tempe, AZ (1 p.m. MST)

- Minicon 47, Minnesota's longest-running science fiction convention,
at Bloomington, MN (3 p.m. CDT)

- Marcon 47, the Midwest's largest annual convention, at Columbus, OH
(4 p.m. EDT).

- Olympus 2012, the British National Science Fiction Convention
(Eastercon) (9 p.m. BST).

Chicon 7 representatives will be joined for the announcement by
special guests including authors George RR Martin at Eastercon and Joe
Haldeman at Leprecon, and artist John Picacio at Norwescon.

Final arrangements are currently being made to broadcast all five
convention presentations via Ustream. Details of how to follow the
announcement online will be announced on the Chicon 7 website shortly.

This year's nomination process set a new record, with over 1100
ballots received for the first time in the long history of the Hugo
Awards. Chicon 7 received a total of 1101 nomination ballots, compared
to the 1006 nomination ballots received by Renovation (the previous
record holder) in 2011.

The chair of Chicon 7, Dave McCarty, said "We are delighted to
continue the momentum built up over the last few years in raising the
profile of the Hugo Awards and the level of engagement in the
nomination process. The Hugo Awards have a long record of highlighting
the best in the genre and that relies on the active participation of
the diverse membership of the Worldcon."

After the announcement, the final voting process will begin.
Attending, Young Adult, and Supporting members of Chicon 7 will be
able to cast final ballots until July 31, 2012, midnight PDT. The
winners will be announced on Sunday, September 2, during the Hugo
Awards Ceremony at Chicon 7.

For additional information, contact us at hugoadmin at chicon.org.

ENDS

Chicon 7 is the 2012 World Science Fiction Convention ("Worldcon").
The first Worldcon occurred in New York City in 1939 and Worldcons
have been held annually since then except for 1942-45 when there was
no event due to World War II. Chicon 7's Guests of Honor are five-time
Hugo winning author Mike Resnick, artist Rowena Morrill, art agent and
collector Jane Frank, science fiction fan and former Worldcon chair
Peggy Rae Sapienza, and astronaut Story Musgrave. Chicon 7's
Toastmaster is John Scalzi.

For more details about the convention or to purchase memberships,
visit www.chicon.org. Send press questions, or requests to be removed
from the Chicon 7 press release mailing list, to press at chicon.org.
Send general queries to info at chicon.org. "World Science Fiction
Society," "WSFS," "World Science Fiction Convention," "Worldcon,"
"NASFiC," "Hugo Award," and the distinctive design of the Hugo Award
Rocket are service marks of the World Science Fiction Society, an
unincorporated literary society.
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