Welcome to the O.V.O.S Awards page! O.V.O.S. stands for "Our Voices, Our Stories!"
We wanted to create a platform that celebrated the works of all genres of Black Literature on Wattpad. With the O.V.O.S. Awards, we hope to form a community, and a w...
When we started O.V.O.S. we weren't sure what the participation or feedback would be like. We were overwhelmed by the response. We wanted to form a community where readers and writers could find each other! There are so many great books of all genres out there and we knew that many of them just needed an audience to present their book to. We didn't want this to just be a popularity contest, we wanted to create something that even the new writer had a chance at winning. This is the reason why we have judges and we combine their scores with the fan votes. We know this process isn't perfect, but we tried our best to be fair.
If your book didn't make it to the second round or win, there could be a number of reasons as to why. For starters, many of the books were separated by barely anything in points. It really got that close. Please don't take this contest and get down about yourself. We read some really good books.
Books were disqualified for various reasons (the author removed the book from their page, author's didn't get back to us in time to accept their nomination, or during the fan vote, some people voted for more than one book at a time disqualifying all of that individual reader's votes.) Books were judged on a form, by the category they were nominated in. A book that scored high in one category, scored low in another category for those reasons (we were looking for different things). The three admins worked together to calculate all of the final scores (checks and balances) to make sure that nothing was missed or left out.
Judges: There were a lot of long nights of reading and scoring and we appreciate each of you for taking the time out of your schedule to help get these awards up and running. (Group discussions were always fun, too!)
Interested in being a judge? Look out for our judge survey which will be posted in August 2018. The nominations for 2019 will begin in October.
We would also like to get feedback from you! How was your experience with the 1st Annual O.V.O.S. Awards. We know it wasn't a perfect process, but we do want to make it better so please let us know what you would like to see in the future.
(If you can't click on the link, please go to the main page and you will find the clickable link there.) We would really appreciate your feedback.
Please know we changed our award stickers, see the page before for details.
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We also wanted to announce what will be happening on the page in the coming months. We are starting a book club!!!! We are working out the details, but each month two readers (we will use a random generator) will get to pick a book along with a date and time that they will go live on IG or FB. (Give us feedback as to which is preferred).
Along with the author, the reader will facilitate the book discussion live. The reader will ask questions, take questions from other readers joining live, and facilitate the discussion overall. We will learn more about the writer, his or her book, and what's to come.
If you are a reader and interested in the book club let us know here. We are compiling our list and will contact you for which month you will get to choose a book. (If you are chosen you get to choose the date and time to the book club will go live). ➡️
If you are a writer and you have a book that you want readers to consider, please post it here. We can't guarantee that your book will be selected, however, the more you make your book visible the better. And yes, any book can be considered whether it was nominated or not. We do ask that your book be ready to be presented to a book club (plot, structure, grammar, etc).➡️
We are excited (but we all need a break) so look forward to information going up in about two weeks about the first March book along with the date and time of the discussions. We will be creating a separate book for the Book Club information.
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