Thanks for all of the great nominations so far!! I haven’t added my own nominations yet, but I plan to do so this weekend, and then I’ll make the polls. So you have one more week (from this posting) to nominate and then two weeks to vote.

It would appear that the most hotly-contested race this year will be for “Best Podcast Episode” — with whole lists of episodes getting nominated per podcast!! It looks like people are maybe suggesting that each podcast should get its own category (eg. “Best Mormon Happy Hour Podcast Episode”, “Best Drunk Mormon Podcast Episode”). I could potentially do that if that’s what folks here want (feel free to discuss in the comments) — but I’d really prefer to keep the Brodies a little tiny bit competitive.

Here’s what I’d prefer to do: For each podcast, the podcaster can select (in the comments below) their best episode to go in the “Best Podcast Episode” category, and then we can move the others to the more specific categories based on the content (eg. humor, history, church watch, race/gender discussions, best title, etc.). Some of the specific categories haven’t gotten any nominations yet, but can still go to the voting phase if people nominate some pieces this week.

Here are the nominations so far:

Year-long awards for people and groups:

Best New Blog/Channel/Podcast This category could use some more nominations — note it is limited to blogs/channels/podcasts that first started posting during 2018 (or very late in 2017, eg. December).

Best Podcast

Best Humor/Satire Blog/Channel/Podcast

Drunk Mormon Podcast

Zelph on the Shelf

This category needs one more nomination in order to go on to the voting phase

Best Mormon History Blog/Channel/Podcast

Drunk Mormon Podcast

This category needs two more nominations in order to go on to the voting phase

Best Exmormon Reddit Contributor

Stan Way “Faithful TBM”

This category needs two more nominations in order to go on to the voting phase

Other potential categories that could use nominations: Best LDS-Church-Info Site, Best LDS-interest Discussion Forum

Awards for Individual Works:

Best Podcast Episode

Best LDS-Interest Book (Fiction)

Mormon Erotica, by Donna Banta

This category needs two more nominations, otherwise it will be merged with the “Best LDS-Interest Book (non-fiction)” category.

Best LDS-Interest Book (non-fiction)

Educated,

by Tara Westover

by Tara Westover This category needs two more nominations, otherwise it will be merged with the “Best LDS-Interest Book (fiction)” category.

Best LDS-Interest Song

Theme song to “Drunk Mormon Podcast”

This category needs two more nominations in order to go on to the voting phase

Best LDS-Interest Comic or Image

Cosmomormon, Volume 1, Issue 5 by Reddit user CosmoMormonMagazine

Pat Bagley: Buyer Beware

This category needs one more nomination in order to go on to the voting phase

Funniest Humor Piece or Parody

Zelph on the Shelf, Mormon-forcement Pornography

Cosmomormon Magazine, issue 5

This category needs one more nomination in order to go on to the voting phase

Most Poignant Personal Story

Educated,

by Tara Westover

by Tara Westover This category needs two more nominations in order to go on to the voting phase

Best Life Journey Piece

Best Activist/Activtist Movement Within Mormonism

Sam Young and Protect LDS Children

This category needs two more nominations in order to go on to the voting phase

Best Leak or Personal Recording

McKenna Denson/Joseph Bishop interview

This category needs two more nominations in order to go on to the voting phase

Best LDS Church Watch Piece

New York Times Obituary for Thomas Monson

This category needs two more nominations in order to go on to the voting phase

Best Op-Ed

Fred Karger: Chenoweth should bow out of performance with Tabernacle Choir. in the Salt Lake Tribune

This category needs two more nominations in order to go on to the voting phase

Best Full-Length Media Presentation

Church and State documentary film by Holly Tuckett and Kendall Wilcox

This category needs two more nominations in order to go on to the voting phase

Here are some potential categories that haven’t gotten nominations yet:

Best Post or Episode Title

Best Exit Story

Best Metaphor/Analogy/Allegory

Best Poem

Best From the Pulpit Sermon

Best Response to Apologetics

Best LDS-Culture Piece

Best History Piece

Best Scripture Study Piece

Best Discussion on Parenting

Best Discussion on Race/Gender/Orientation

Most Insightful Commentary on the CoJCoL-dS

Best Philosophical/Theological Discussion

Best Short Media Presentation

Best Book Review

For any category that has at least two nominations by January 27, 2019, I will either try to find an appropriate third nomination myself or I will merge it with another category so that reader nominations will not get lost. That said, it would be really nice if people who are following this could encourage their friends on social media to swing by and add their own nominations for the best LDS-interest content of 2018. 😀