Here is your weekly admin post. This week we're focusing on Non-Fiction
pieces.
We often write and read fanfic because we enjoy a good story but
sometimes it's about exploring the characters or aspects of the
fictional world. If you enjoy stories that psychoanalyse characters,
indulge in world-building or extrapolate from canon, then you'll
probably enjoy reading and being stimulated by the pieces in our
Non-fiction categories. This list will help you find essays and articles
you might like to review.
For the list of pieces in this announcement I've used an author's main
category selection. Each author selects three category choices, only one
of which it can be placed in; but the author has still described it as
being suitable for three category choices, even if it isn't placed
there. So if an author selected the "genre" category Non-fiction it will
be on this list.
Finding stories that selected a certain main category is pretty
straightforward. To do this
1. Log in to www.mefawards.net/MEFA2008/
2. Click the "Stories" link at the top of the page.
3. Click the "Show Filter" link.
4. Click the "Clear All Filters" button if you've used the filter before
this session.
5. Select the genre, race, or time period you would like from the
"Genre, Race, Time" filter (sixth from the bottom).
6. Click the "Display selected nominations" button.
This will pull up all of the nominated pieces that selected your main
category as a first-, second-, or third-choice category, even if they
didn't end up categorized in that main category.
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Here are the stories competing in this year's competition whose author
selected Non-fiction to describe their piece.
Angelica
--- (322) Name Calling: Group Identity and the Other among First Age Elves
Aratlithiel
--- (457) On Hobbits
ConnieMarie
--- (395) One Step More - The Heroism of Frodo Baggins
Dawn Felagund
--- (107) A Woman in Few Words: The Character of Nerdanel and Her
Treatment in Canon and Fandom
Dreamflower
--- (532) The Myth of the One Ring's Power
--- (686) The Importance of Being Bilbo
Marta
--- (123) On Canon and Fanfic
--- (475) Galdor: An Elf By Any Other Name....
--- (624) Pride and Despair: A Defense of Ecthelion's Son
Oshun
--- (530) Aulë the Smith
pandemonium_213
--- (50) Philosophia to Philomythus and Misomythus
Roh Wyn
--- (277) Arvedui v. Pelendur
Steuard Jensen
--- (91) Tolkien's Parish: The Canonical Middle-earth
To find more information about any of these pieces, just do the following
1. Log in to www.mefawards.net/MEFA2008/
2. Click the "Stories" link at the top of the web page.
3. Type the Story ID followed by the "#" sign into the search bar, and
click the "Search" button.
For instance, searching for "457#" will bring up story #457, On Hobbits
by Aratlithiel.
Non-fiction pieces are competing in the following subcategories:
Genres: Non-Fiction: General
Genres: Non-Fiction: Character Studies
Genres: Poetry: General
Remember: The list of stories and sub-categories listed above are based
on the main categories chosen by the author.
Happy reading!
Tanaqui
(MEFA Tech Support)
P.S. - If you noticed a mistake in this post, please email about it so I
can check whether a mistake has been made and, if necessary, correct my
announcement. You can reach me privately at
techsupport(.at.)mefawards(.dot.)net. Thanks!