2021 Awards Eligibility Post - Charles Payseur and Quick Sip Reviews

In many ways, 2020 was supposed to be my swan song. I was planning to cut back and give myself more time for other projects that weren't reviewing. In that, dear readers, I failed. Miserably. Instead, I've made 2021 the busiest year to date for me and reviewing. I've already covered over 1500 works of short SFF, and by the end of the year I expect that number will be over 1700. So...it's still I guess rather front and center that I make an eligibility post both for my work as a writer (more on that in a bit) and as a fan writer. To that, I am eligible for...

The Hugo Awards - Best Fan Writer - Charles Payseur
The Hugo Awards - Best Fanzine - Quick Sip Reviews

Any other award that covers blogging, reviewing, or similar

Now, for this my body of work is most evident here at Quick Sip Reviews, where every week this year I have covered a whole slew of works, plus added commentary on life and other things that I'm doing, watching, reading, etc. I also write on my Patreon, for free and exclusively for Patrons. I had five X Marks the Story posts at The Book Smugglers. I have done a number of interviews. To say at this point that I am prolific in my fan work is not to understate things. Being Midwestern, it's easy to think humility is to downplay the work I've done but to be honest, give that the year has nearly broken me in ways I wasn't even expecting, I do want to say that what I have done is perhaps without precedent. Not only over 1000 reviews, but well over that mark. It's...a lot. 

And that's not even all this year. I also had a number of stories out, mostly in my collection, The Burning Day and Other Strange Stories. Which itself is eligible for awards that honor collections. Plus I'm not an editor! Eep! But first for writing, I am eligible for...

Short Story Awards - "Just Toonin'" in The Burning Day and Other Strange Stories
Short Story Awards - "Door Thirteen" in The Burning Day and Other Strange Stories
Short Story Awards - "Little Blue Men" in The Burning Day and Other Strange Stories

Collection Awards - The Burning Day and Other Strange Stories (Lethe Press)

And finally, as stated, I'm now series editor for We're Here: The Best Queer Speculative Fiction so I should say that I'm eligible for...

Anthology Awards - We're Here: The Best Queer Speculative Fiction 2020 ed. C.L. Clark, series ed. Charles Payseur (Neon Hemlock Press)

Short Fiction Editor Awards - C.L. Clark & Charles Payseur (We're Here: The Best Queer Speculative Fiction 2020)

And there you have it. Consider my hat officially in the ring for all the things. Thank you for your time and consideration!

2020 Awards Eligibility Post - Charles Payseur and Quick Sip Reviews

2020 has been something of A Year. For me personally, it’s had a lot of ups with the downs, and through it all I’ve been pushing to complete the sixth year of continuous short fiction coverage here at Quick Sip Reviews while also running content on my Patreon and abroad. And so as the year comes to a close, I find I have done a lot I am incredibly proud of, and that I want to share through this Awards Eligibility Post.

First and most, I am eligible for...

The Hugo Awards: Fan Writer - Charles Payseur
The Hugo Awards: Fanzine - Quick Sip Reviews, ed. Charles Payseur

umm...anything else that awards reviewing/fan work/blogging?

My contributions to the field are most evident right here, on Quick Sip Reviews, where for the sixth year in a row I have provided comprehensive reviews of original fiction and poetry of a great many genre publications. For ease of use, I have set up a page that has collected links to all of my posts put out this year, which lists all of the different publications I’ve covered. All told, I’ll have written more than 900 individual reviews on Quick Sip Reviews, and a whole lot more if you include the 100+ reviews I’ve done as part of my Sip of the Week coverage, on Goodreads, and elsewhere. I’ll have also run a number of other features, from interviews to personal essays to drunk explorations of nostalgia. 

2020 has been a year to leave everything on the field, and I’m still sprinting toward the finish line. I have some big posts yet to come, including my year-in-review and recommended reading list. And while there are some big changes coming that might decrease my overall reviewing/fan writing in 2021, 2020 has probably been my most prolific. I would be honored and grateful for whatever attention you have to spare with regards to awards this year. Thank you.

- Charles Payseur

[fwiw and for transparency sake. While first and most a fan, I have been paid for the Strange Horizons roundtable I participated in that is linked on the comprehensive link post, and I do run a Patreon, where some of the content is for paying patrons only. Further, the Medium articles (the Suikoden ones) were part of whatever system they use that can be monetized and I have made very small amounts of money on that. Cheers] 

2019 Awards Eligibility Post

Hi all! It's that time again to start to wrap up the year and get ready for...awards season [*shudder*].

2019 has been and continues to be...a challenge, we'll say. But I've managed to have some work out that I'm incredibly proud of, and I've continued my work here at Quick Sip Reviews as well as through my Patreon. I've tried some new things and expanded my coverage of short fiction to review more venues than ever (not an easy feat, given what I'd been doing already). But let's take it in chunks. For your consideration...