Mark Time Awards
Encyclopedia
The Mark Time Awards are the most prominent radio drama
awards worldwide in conjunction with the Ogle Awards. The awards are granted by the MISFITS
Minnesota Society For Interest in Science Fiction and Fantasy and judged by a panel of five distinguished radio producers. Each year there are new judges however many remain from previous years. The award is named after the character Mark Time created by the Firesign Theatre in the 1970s.
audio competition and submissions are sent voluntarily to the panel each year. The goal is to find the year's best science fiction audio production on the planet. The criteria for winners are based on:
name, and the title of the production and year engraved on it. The awards are presented in July each year at the science fiction
convention CONvergence
a speculative fiction
convention held annually on the first weekend in July in Minnesota
, United States
. Sponsored by the local fan organization MISFITS
.
Radio drama
Radio drama is a dramatized, purely acoustic performance, broadcast on radio or published on audio media, such as tape or CD. With no visual component, radio drama depends on dialogue, music and sound effects to help the listener imagine the characters and story...
awards worldwide in conjunction with the Ogle Awards. The awards are granted by the MISFITS
MISFITS
MiSFiTS was the acronym for the Minnesota Society for Interest in Science Fiction and Fantasy. This organization has now changed its name to GPS, an acronym for Geek Partnership Society. It was founded in 1999 and was the parent non-profit organization for the CONvergence speculative fiction...
Minnesota Society For Interest in Science Fiction and Fantasy and judged by a panel of five distinguished radio producers. Each year there are new judges however many remain from previous years. The award is named after the character Mark Time created by the Firesign Theatre in the 1970s.
Criteria
The award is a science fictionScience fiction
Science fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginary but more or less plausible content such as future settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, aliens, and paranormal abilities...
audio competition and submissions are sent voluntarily to the panel each year. The goal is to find the year's best science fiction audio production on the planet. The criteria for winners are based on:
- The degree to which the production fits the subjective description "science fiction," as distinguished from "horror" or "fantasy." Originality of story and script make a difference.
- Use of Medium - sound design, location recording, "audio art."
- Writing - storyline, characterizations, dialogue, originality.
- Performances. (Full cast, not a "reading".)
- Direction.
- Technical production.
Award
Recipients receive a wood and brass plaque with the image of Mark Time, the producer'sname, and the title of the production and year engraved on it. The awards are presented in July each year at the science fiction
Science fiction
Science fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginary but more or less plausible content such as future settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, aliens, and paranormal abilities...
convention CONvergence
CONvergence (convention)
CONvergence is a 4000+ member speculative fiction/fan convention held annually on the first weekend in July in Minnesota, United States. The convention began in 1999 at the Bloomington Radisson South Hotel and continues to be held every year at the same location, known through 2011 as the...
a speculative fiction
Speculative fiction
Speculative fiction is an umbrella term encompassing the more fantastical fiction genres, specifically science fiction, fantasy, horror, supernatural fiction, superhero fiction, utopian and dystopian fiction, apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction, and alternate history in literature as well as...
convention held annually on the first weekend in July in Minnesota
Minnesota
Minnesota is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern United States. The twelfth largest state of the U.S., it is the twenty-first most populous, with 5.3 million residents. Minnesota was carved out of the eastern half of the Minnesota Territory and admitted to the Union as the thirty-second state...
, United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
. Sponsored by the local fan organization MISFITS
MISFITS
MiSFiTS was the acronym for the Minnesota Society for Interest in Science Fiction and Fantasy. This organization has now changed its name to GPS, an acronym for Geek Partnership Society. It was founded in 1999 and was the parent non-profit organization for the CONvergence speculative fiction...
.