2008 Aurora Award Nominations Open

Two great reasons to be Canadian right now: the Loonie is up, and you’re eligible to nominate in the prestigious Prix Aurora awards. (When Elst Weinstein reads this sentence, will he remind me that’s just as bad as saying “the La Brea Tar Pits”?)

The Prix Aurora website is accepting web-based nominations until March 17, 2008. Nominations submitted by mail must be postmarked by March 10. A friend sent me a PDF ballot which included a much earlier deadline, though I’m forced to believe that the fans keeping the official website know when they are going to stop accepting online votes, and that the deadline for paper ballots doesn’t need to be a month earlier.

The 10 category winners will be announced at Keycon 25 in Winnpeg, May 16-19, 2008. Click here for a history of the awards.