Here are the final categories. Nominations remain open until Friday, January 22, 2016. Please keep in mind the following as you make your nominations:

Categories with fewer than three nominations will be dropped.

Please do not nominate any one author/artist more than twice.

I occasionally move nominees to categories where I think they fit better.

In particular, I try to avoid having the same nominee in multiple categories, and I avoid having multiple nominees by the same author/artist in the same category.

If your nomination doesn’t appear on the list at all, it is probably an error (so please leave a comment) — but note that I rejected a nomination of a piece that wasn’t from 2015.

Don’t forget to include links.

If you did something great in 2015 and weren’t nominated, don’t feel bad — nominate yourself! It’s likely that your audience just isn’t big enough (yet). Participating in the Brodies can help you grow your audience.

(Also, don’t forget to vote for X-Mormon of the Year 2015, if you haven’t already.)

Year-Long Awards for overall quality:

Best New Blog:

Best New Podcast:

Best Discussion Forum:

Best Humor Blog/Site/Channel/Podcast:

Best LDS-Interest Interview-and-discussion Podcast:

Best LDS Church Watch/Analysis Blog/Site/Channel/Podcast:

Best Scripture Study Blog/Site/Channel/Podcast:

Best Faithful-Perspective Blog/Site/Channel/Podcast:

Awards for Individual Works:

Best LDS-Interest Book (Fiction):

Best LDS-Interest Book (Non-fiction):

Best LDS-Interest Comic or Image:

Best Mormon-Themed Meme:

Funniest Humor Piece:

Best Parody:

Best Allegory or Analogy:

Best Post Title:

Best Original Research Regarding Mormonism:

Best Mormon Scoop or Leak:

Best Personal Recording:

Best Church Watch:

Best Response to Apologetics:

Best History Piece:

Most Insightful Commentary on the CoJCoL-dS:

Best Mormonism-and-Orientation Post:

Best Mormonism-and-Race Discussion:

Best Mormonism-and-Gender Discussion:

Best Exit Story:

Best Faith Journey Piece:

Best Advice:

Most Poignant Personal Story:

Best Mormon Parenting Piece:

Best Real-Life Act or Activism:

Most Interesting Interfaith Interaction:

Best from-the-pulpit speech/sermon:

Most fantastic r/mormon AMA:

Temple Custodian

Infants on Thrones

church employee Daniel Miller — link needed

Best Poem:

Dear Dad, by Alice_McCann

This category needs more nominations in order to be included

Best Podcast Series or Episode:

I am dropping this category because there has been such a flowering of podcasts lately that the category has become too generic, like having a “best blog post” category. Nominations have been moved to more specific categories (except “Book of Mormon CC” — I could not identify what that is, please clarify)

Thanks for all the great nominations so far!! Please add your final nominations in the comments! 😀

(Also, if you are the author/artist of one of these nominations and you see an error or you would like your work removed or moved to a different category or something, please comment.)