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The Whitney Award is an award given annually for novels by LDS authors. The Whitney Awards are a semi-independent non-profit organization affiliated with the LDStorymakers, a guild for LDS authors. ^[1]

The 2007 Whitney Awards will be given at a banquet in Salt Lake City, on March 22, 2008.

Cash prizes are given with the awards, varying between $500 and $1,000. ^[2]

Award Categories

There are five genre categories:

There are also two overall awards:

Best Novel by a New Author
Novel of the Year

Due to the limited number of titles released by LDS authors, several of the genre awards are combined (such as romance and women's fiction). ^[3]

While the Whitney Committee has said that they hope to expand the number of genres in the future, they likely won't venture into other areas of LDS art, such as music, poetry, or non-fiction books.

To be eligible, a novel must be written by an LDS author during the award year, and be at least 50,000 words long.

Whitney Award Process

Any reader can nominate a book. Once a book has received five or more nominations, it becomes an official nominee.

The official nominees are presented to the Whitney Awards Committee. The Committee checks for eligibility, and acts as a preliminary judging panel; reducing the number of nominees to no more than five per category.

Finally, ballots are sent to the Whitney Awards Academy, an invitation-only group consisting of authors, bookstore owners/managers, distributors, critics, and other industry professionals. Through popular vote, they decide on final winners.^[4]

Whitney Awards Committee

The Whitney Awards Committee acts as both the organizers and the preliminary judges of the Whitney Awards. Rules stipulate that the committee be made up of at least four members of LDStorymakers. Their positions are temporary, by invitation of the Whitney Awards Committee president (who is appointed by the LDStorymakers executive committee).

The current committee includes:

References and footnotes

^ Whitney Awards website. [1]
^ Whitney Awards press release, 10-23-07, [2]
^ Whitney Awards Q&A, Six LDS Writers and a Frog, [3]
^ Whitney Awards official rules [4]

External Links

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[1] Whitney Awards website. [1]

[2] Whitney Awards press release, 10-23-07, [2]

[3] Whitney Awards Q&A, Six LDS Writers and a Frog, [3]

[4] Whitney Awards official rules [4]

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 ==Award Categories==
 There are five genre categories:
-*[[Romance|Romance Novel]] / [[Women's Fiction]]
+*[[Romance Novel|Romance]] / [[Women's Fiction]]
-*[[Mystery]] / [[Suspense|Thriller]]
+*[[Mystery]] / [[Thriller|Suspense]]
 *[[Speculative Fiction]]
 *[[Young adult literature]] / [[Children's Literature]]