Pegasus Award Categories for 2006

There are currently six Pegasus award categories, including two floating categories that are different each year.

Best Filk Song

Any filk song is eligible in this category so long as it has not previously won a Pegasus Award, and has not been on the final ballot in this category in both of the previous two years.

The nominees for 2006 are:

• Archetype Cafe -Talis Kimberley
• Close Your Eyes -Daniel Glasser
• Girl That's Never Been - Michelle Dockrey
• Rich Fantasy Lives -Rob Balder and Tom Smith
• A Thousand Ships -Katy Droege and Juliane Honisch

Best Classic Filk Song

Any well known filk song that is at least 10 years old and has not previously won a Pegasus Award, and has not been on the final ballot in this category in both of the previous two years.

The nominees in this category for 2006 are:

• Before the Dawn - Mike Whitaker
• Black Davie's Ride - Cynthia McQuillin
• I Wanna Be Peter Lorre - Tom Smith
• Ship of Stone - Don Simpson
• Stray Dog Man - Bill Sutton

Best Torch Song

One of this year's floating categories. Any filk song that fits the theme and has not previously won a Pegasus Award.

The nominees are:

• Legolas -Dr. Mary Crowell
• Maybe It's Crazy - Seanan McGuire
• Po' Boys - Marty Coady Fabish
• Sex and Chocolate - Debbie Ridpath Ohi and Jodi Krangle
• X-Libris - Talis Kimberley

Best Battle Song

One of this year's floating categories. Any filk song that fits the theme and has not previously won a Pegasus Award.

The nominees are:

• Das Uber Tuber - Rand Bellavia and Adam English
• The Destroyer - Bill Roper
• March of Cambreadth - Heather Alexander
• No Quarter - Cat Faber
• Shai! - Steve Macdonald and Steve Simmons

Best Writer/Composer

Any writer/composer of filk songs who has not won this Pegasus Award in the past 5 years.

This year's nominees are:

• Chris Conway
• Dr. Mary Crowell
• Michelle Dockrey
• Seanan McGuire
• Cynthia McQuillin

Best Performer

Any performer in the filk community who has not won this Pegasus Award in the past 5 years.

The nominees for 2006 are:

• Chris Conway
• Steve Macdonald
• Judi Miller
• Ookla the Mok
• Tom Smith

Pegasus Nominations

Nominations for the Pegasus Awards are made by the people of the filk community.

Nominating ballots are made available online and at conventions each year starting around the end of May (US Memorial Day). The cut-off for nomination submissions the end of July. After the nominating ballots are counted and the selection process is completed, the top five nominees in each category are announced. This occurs on or before the first weekend in September (US Labor Day). The Final Ballot is then made available online and distributed at conventions. Voting concludes on the Friday night of OVFF, and the Pegasus Award Winners are announced at the Saturday night banquet.

The 2006 Pegasus Award nominations have closed and the final list of nominees has been announced (See above).

Voting for the Pegasus Award

Voting for this year's Pegasus Award began immediately after the release of the final ballot.

Voting is open to anyone with an interest in Filk music. Ballots are accepted both on-line and through printed ballots. On-line ballot submissions are submitted through a form on the OVFF Pegasus Awards website. Printed ballots may be mailed in, given to a representative of the OVFF convention committee before the Wednesday preceding OVFF. OVFF attendees have one more chance to submit ballots on-site at the convention before Midnight on Friday (usually after the Pegasus Nominees concert).

The on-line final ballot is here.

This year's on-line ballots must be submitted by the end of the day on Monday, October 16, 2006. Mailed-in ballots must be received by that date in order to be counted.

Pegasus Brainstorming Poll

When the Nominating Ballot is released, a list of suggested artists and songs is attached. This list is generated by the Pegasus Brainstorming Poll, where anyone with a connection to filking can submit suggestions for songs and people that they think deserve to be nominated. The brainstorming poll runs from August through mid-April.

The 2007 Pegasus Brainstorming Poll is now open, and will run until mid-April.