The voting for X-Mormon of the Year is underway you have until January 20th to get your vote in!!

As usual, we’re also doing the Brodie Awards — a fun little yearly activity intended to give some extra recognition and signal boost to the best LDS-interest content published/posted during the past year.

Unfortunately, this has been a bit of a slow year so far for the Brodie awards — in part because I haven’t had as much time to keep things lively here at MSP since taking my new job. I’m glad to see some people are still having fun with this and have started leaving their nominations!

Now I’m going to do a first-pass of organizing this year’s categories, adding some nominations of my own, and pointing out which categories need more nominations. Remember that each category needs a least three nominations to continue on to the voting and awards rounds. The nomination process will continue for two more weeks and then we will begin voting. Here we go!

Year-long awards for people and groups:

Best New Blog/Channel/Podcast

Best Humor/Satire Blog/Channel/Podcast

Best Mormon History Blog/Channel/Podcast

Naked Mormonism

This category needs more nominations.

Best LDS-Church-Info Site

Best LDS-interest Discussion Forum

Thoughtful Transitions FB group

Millennial Mormonism FB group

r/mormon

r/exmormon

Best Exmormon Reddit Contributor

u/invisibles_cubit

u/relevantlife

This category needs more nominations.

Best faithful-perspective Mormon Blog

Tocubit is Invisible’s Cubit, by Sam Young

This category needs more nominations.

Awards for Individual Works:

Best LDS-Interest Book (Fiction)

Best LDS-Interest Book (General non-fiction)

Michael Quinn’s Mormon Hierarchy: wealth and corporate power

This category needs more nominations.

Best LDS-Interest Book (Narrative non-fiction)

Best LDS-Interest Song

Tapirback Rider, by Weird Alma

This category needs more nominations.

Best Poem

“My friend’s poem” (Anonymous)

This category needs more nominations.

Best LDS-Interest Comic or Image

Best Mormon-Themed Meme

Mormonism is anti-me, by Missed In Sunday

This category needs more nominations.

Best Post Title

Funniest Humor Piece

Funniest Parody

Best Metaphor/Analogy/Allegory

Parable of the Prodigal Daughter, by Chiaroscuro

Mormon McDonald’s: An Allegory, by Gina Colvin

This category needs more nominations.

Best From the Pulpit Sermon

Savannah’s Testimony

This category needs more nominations.

Most Poignant Personal Story

Best Exit Story

Best Life Journey Piece

Best Activist Movement Within Mormonism

Best Leak or Personal Recording

Best LDS Church Watch Piece

Best Response to Apologetics

Best LDS-Culture Piece

Best History Piece

Best Scripture Study Piece

Best Discussion on Parenting

Taking Back My Power, by Dad’s Primal Scream

This category needs more nominations.

Best Discussion on Orientation

Best Discussion on Gender

Best Discussion on Race

Most Insightful Commentary on the CoJCoL-dS

Best Philosophical/Theological Discussion

Best short media presentation

Bryce Blankenagel and Cody Noconi, Sunstone Symposium, Revelation Through Hallucination

This category needs more nominations.

Best Book Review

How to nominate: Just post your nominations as comment to this thread, but please include links to the works you nominate. If your nomination comment ends up in the spam filter, please email me (chanson dot exmormon at gmail dot com) and I will fish it out. (Also note that if you post each nomination as a separate comment, they’re less likely to get flagged as spam.)

And don’t forget the nomination guidelines:

Please nominate as many people, books, blogs, sites, podcasts, songs, articles, images, etc. as you want. However, please do not nominate more than two individual works by any one author/artist.

You are encouraged to nominate your own works. No one knows better than you do which pieces were your best. No more than two, though.

Please nominate works that first appeared during 2017.

Please try to nominate people and works that have some connection with Mormonism (eg. either the work touches on Mormonism, or the author is a current or former Mormon and/or is an active participant in our community).

A category must have at least three nominations in order to be included in the voting and awards phase.

You may suggest your own categories — however please do it as early as possible in the nominations process, to give others plenty of time to add nominations in your proposed categories.

Any other proposed changes to the categories or to the guidelines are welcome — feel free to discuss it in the comments.

The nominations will be open until mid-January, 2018, depending on my schedule. I will finalize the dates and categories and add my own nominations a few days before the nominations close and voting begins.

Thanks for all of your nominations!!!