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Hey guys,

I want to talk about withdrawing nominations. Every year several hundred
stories are nominated for the MEFAs - and it seems like every year at
least a few stories need to be withdrawn. Now, I'm fully aware that life
happens, often in a way no one ever anticipated, and I don't mind
withdrawing stories when the need arises.

However, when you withdraw a story that you had said could compete, you
affect lots of people: your nominator, other authors, voters, and
volunteers. While I want authors to be able to leave the awards if they
need to, I also want them to think carefully beforehand: will you be
happy with their story to stay in the awards until voting finishes,
barring any unforeseen event? Sometimes stuff happens and you have to
change your answer mid-awards; but sometimes, you can anticipate that
you may need to pull out, before you accept your nomination.

Authors have until one week after nominations close (this year: June 21)
to accept their nominations and feel out the story forms. If you need to
withdraw a nomination before then, you can do so without any penalty.
After June 21, you can still withdraw stories, but they'll be ineligible
to compete again just like if they competed the whole year. This means
that if a WIP is withdrawn on June 22, it will only be eligible to
compete again when it's complete. And if a completed story is withdrawn
on June 22, it's never eligible again.

If you are leaving a specific archive but your story will still be
posted elsewhere, we can update the story link given on our site. Just
email me your name, your story title, and the new link, and I'll change
it on our website.

If you would like to withdraw your story, email me and I'll take it down
for you.

In either case, email mefasupport(at)mefawards(dot)net.

Thanks!

Marta
(MEFA Admin.)

I've withdrawn a story....but only because it had already competed. However, the author wanted the nominator to keep their vote.....but when it was withdrawn there was nothing we could do about that.Can I just check...if the nominator withdraws it do they keep the vote?

Lily

"melayton@gmail.com" <melayton@gmail.com> wrote:
Hey guys,

I want to talk about withdrawing nominations. Every year several hundred
stories are nominated for the MEFAs - and it seems like every year at
least a few stories need to be withdrawn. Now, I'm fully aware that life
happens, often in a way no one ever anticipated, and I don't mind
withdrawing stories when the need arises.

However, when you withdraw a story that you had said could compete, you
affect lots of people: your nominator, other authors, voters, and
volunteers. While I want authors to be able to leave the awards if they
need to, I also want them to think carefully beforehand: will you be
happy with their story to stay in the awards until voting finishes,
barring any unforeseen event? Sometimes stuff happens and you have to
change your answer mid-awards; but sometimes, you can anticipate that
you may need to pull out, before you accept your nomination.

Authors have until one week after nominations close (this year: June 21)
to accept their nominations and feel out the story forms. If you need to
withdraw a nomination before then, you can do so without any penalty.
After June 21, you can still withdraw stories, but they'll be ineligible
to compete again just like if they competed the whole year. This means
that if a WIP is withdrawn on June 22, it will only be eligible to
compete again when it's complete. And if a completed story is withdrawn
on June 22, it's never eligible again.

If you are leaving a specific archive but your story will still be
posted elsewhere, we can update the story link given on our site. Just
email me your name, your story title, and the new link, and I'll change
it on our website.

If you would like to withdraw your story, email me and I'll take it down
for you.

In either case, email mefasupport(at)mefawards(dot)net.

Thanks!

Marta
(MEFA Admin.)






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Hiya Lily,

Our rules are pretty clear-cut on this. If a story competed in an
earlier year and has to be withdrawn for that reason, the nominator
isn't allowed to replace the nomination. No matter what the author would
prefer. It's true that there are some cases where stories *can* compete
more than once (like stories nominated as WIPs - they're eligible again
once completed). And if you'd like I'm happy to look at the story to
make sure it's not a case like this. But if a story *does* need to be
withdrawn for this reason, the nominator loses that nomination.

So.... in this circumstance, you should withdraw the story with the
reason "duplicate of prior nomination," and you need to check the tick
box on the form under that.

PS - Because this is more or less an admin issue, would you mind if we
either continued this discussion at MEFAStaff, or if you emailed me
privately?

Thanks,
Marta

Lily Hawker-Yates wrote:

>
>
> I've withdrawn a story....but only because it had already competed.
> However, the author wanted the nominator to keep their vote.....but when
> it was withdrawn there was nothing we could do about that.Can I just
> check...if the nominator withdraws it do they keep the vote?
>
> Lily
>