The Golden Quill Awards

The Golden Quill Awards is an annual multi-fandom awards program run by WendWriter to celebrate great fanfiction. Family-friendly stories are nominated by genre and chosen by poll. Launched in August 2009, it has attracted the attention of some of the best Tolkien-based writers, and has been name-checked on many fandom websites, including Many Paths to Tread and Silmarillion Writers Guild. Nominations begin in March and continue till the end of May. Entries are collated during June; the polls are opened on 1st July and run till the end of August. Winners are announced on 1st September. Entrants' icons are available, and winners receive an icon and a profile on the Archives of Excellence, if they are not featured there already.

Affiliated to the Archives of Excellence, the Golden Quill Awards was given a website of its own to differentiate the annual awards program from the monthly writing challenge.

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Archives of Excellence

Golden Quill Awards