Guidelines for Graduate Student Paper Awards

This award is being proposed as a way to recognize the fine scholarship by graduate students, to encourage graduate student work in science fiction and fantasy literature and film, and to recruit new members for the organization and annual conference.

The guidelines for the award are as follows:

1. The first awards will be given to papers presented at the 1999 conference.

2. Students who wish to have their work considered for the award must submit their papers to a member of the Graduate Student Award Committee or of the SFRA Executive Board by the end of the 1999 annual conference.

3. Judges for the award will be members of the Committee, appointed by the President of SFRA. Notices of the winners will be sent to the students within a month after the end of the annual conference and will be announced in the next SFRAReview.

4. Ordinarily, prizes will be awarded for first, second, and third places; however, the number of pries awarded each year will depend on the number and quality of papers submitted. Awards for ties are possible.

5. First-place award will be $100 and membership in SFRA for the calendar year immediately following the conferences (i.e., the 1999 awardees will receive membership for 2000-2001); second- and third-place awards will be membership in the SFRA for the calendar year immediately following the conference. In the event of a tie, memberships will be awarded to both awardees; if the tie is for first place, the awardees will receive $100 each.