Mark Time Awards / Ogle Awards
Winners - 2008
Best Science Fiction/Fantasy Audio Production
Mark Time Award
GOLD
The Outpost
Written & Produced by Julie Hoverson
19 Nocturne Boulevard
www.19nocturneboulevard.net
SILVER
The Return of the Bogman MummyBy Roger Gregg & the Gaiety School of Acting
www.gaietyschool.com
OGLE AWARDS
GOLD
Waiting For A Window
Produced & Written by Fred Greenhalgh
FinalRune Productions
www.finalrune.com
SILVER
The Halloween Tree
Produced by Chris Snyder, Mark Vanderberg, Jerry Robbins
Colonial Radio Theatre
Written by Ray Bradbury
www.colonialradio.com
Presented by
The American Society For Science Fiction Audio
(ASFSFA)
The Mark Time Award is given each year to honor the Best Science Fiction Audio Production on the Planet. And the Ogle Award for Best Fantasy Audio Production of the Year.
Charles Ogle played the first Frankenstein's creation in Edison's silent 1910 film of the famous science fiction horror novel. Fantasy includes magical "high" fantasy, sword and sorcery, horror, modern urban fantasy, and other things that don't fall under the criteria of Science Fiction. But, we'll be the judges of that.
A Gold and a Silver Mark Time Award, and a Gold and a Silver Ogle Award, will be awarded at CONvergence,, July 2-5 of 2009.
How To Enter
- Print and fill out the Entry
Form.
- Send Five (5) copies of the Audio Production you are entering
(CDs or Cassettes),
the Entry Form and a check for the $25.00 USD Entry Fee (checks payable to "Jerry Stearns") to:
- Mark Time Award
3421 44th Ave. S.,
Minneapolis, MN 55406 USA
- Mark Time Award
- DEADLINE for Entry: March 1, 2009. (Postmark)
- Winners will be announced before an audience at CONvergence, July 2, 2009.
- Winners receive a wood and brass plaque with the image of Mark Time or Charles Ogle, the producer's name, and the title of the production and year engraved on it.
Criteria for Judging:
- 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.
• We really are looking for Audio Theatre, not audiobooks with some actors in them. Remakes of Old Time Radio programs, and adaptations that have been done before, will be judged against the original versions as well as current criteria above.
Judges for the 2009 Awards were:
- Dani Cutler - Society of Audio Addicts
- Kris Markman - University of Memphis, TN
- Brian Price - Great Northern Audio Theatre
- Philip Proctor - Firesign Theatre
- Jerry Stearns - Great Northern Audio Theatre
The Mark Time Awards are sponsored by MISFITS, the Minnesota Society for Interest in Science Fiction and Fantasy.



