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The Fourth Annual 2020 Book Blogger Awards: Rules & Categories – #2020BookBloggerAwards

I am so, so, so thrilled and nervous and both wanting to jump up and down and run and hide, but… here I am anyway, staying to write this post with trembling fingers.

This (hellish) year of 2020, I’m honored to be co-hosting the Fourth Edition of the Book Bloggers Awards with my friend and incredible human being I adore, May @ Forever And Everly!!

You all know how much this community matters to me and how much and often I scream about supporting book bloggers. It’s an honor to be able to co-host the awards with May this year and I hope you will all take this chance to shout about all of your favorite book bloggers, to celebrate the endless days, nights and weekends we all spend shouting about books!!

All of the graphics for this edition of the Book Bloggers Awards have been created by the wonderful Kat @ Novels and Waffles. A thousand, million thanks to her for her incredible work!!

CONTENT SUMMARY
Click for a quick access to each category!

WHAT ARE THE BOOK BLOGGER AWARDS?

The Book Blogger Awards were first created and hosted by Joce @ Write Through the Night in 2017. When she quit blogging in 2019, May @ Forever and Everly began hosting them, and starting this year, May and I are co-hosting!

When we think or talk about the book community online, more often than not, we think about booktubers and bookstagrammers. They are the ones being recognized the most by awards, they are the ones we highlight first when we talk about book influencers.

They might be forgotten, at times, but book bloggers are a massive part of the bookish community online, too and, with these awards, we wanted to celebrate, recognize and uplift the incredible work of book bloggers specifically, working tirelessly to boost books through what some people would think is an ā€œold schoolā€ medium, but is still, very very much thriving: a blog.

So, dear book bloggers, writing blog posts until dawn, boosting books you love and authors you adore with your words and all of your heart: these awards are for you.

HOW IT WORKS

Though there are a few changes to how this works/rules/categories, most of it is pretty much what Joce put in place before me, both because her process worked so well and to honor her!

ROUND 1: NOMINATIONS

  • When: June 28th (today) – July 26th @ 11:59 PM CDT
  • What: During these four weeks, you can nominate bloggers for each award category.
  • How: Write a post with your nominationsā€”include a link back to this post or Mayā€™s post and comment the link to your post to make sure that we wonā€™t miss it! OR submit your nominations through THIS GOOGLE FORM. It is strongly encouraged that you write a nominations post, in order to better promote and support bloggers, but itā€™s okay to use the form instead!
    Check the Voting Round Limitations for more details.

THE TOP 4 BLOGGERS OF EACH AWARD CATEGORY (those with the most nominations for that category) WILL THEN MOVE ON TO:

ROUND 2: VOTING

  • When: August 2nd – August 16th @ 11:59 PM CDT
  • What: During this week, you can vote for one of the top bloggers of each category.
  • How: On August 2nd, at 7 AM CDT, May and I will publish a blog post that only has a Google form embedded in it, plus a link to it, and you can vote for your top choices through this form.

THE WINNER OF EACH AWARD CATEGORY (blogger with the most nominations for that category) WILL BE ANNOUNCED IN:

RESULTS

  • When: during the last week of August (may be subject to change)
  • What: A blog post announcing and dedicated to the winners, with the amazing things you all have said about them!!

RULES

(Most of these are directly from Joceā€™s 2018 post.)

NOMINATIONS

Pay special attention to the ones marked with an asterisk (*).

  • All nominees MUST BE BOOK BLOGGERS.
  • You do not have to be a book blogger to nominate/vote for others.
  • *You can nominate up to three (3) bloggers for each category.
  • *You can nominate the same blogger up to three (3) times.
  • *1/3 of your nominations MUST be small bloggers (bloggers with 500 or less followers).
  • You do not have to nominate a blogger for every category.
  • Nominated blogs must have been active during at least the last four months.
  • Make sure that the blogger(s) you nominate for each category actually fit that category.
  • Please try to nominate as many different bloggers as you can, instead of nominating the same ones over and over again! (Note: If a blogger won an award previously, nominating them for the same award means that they will be put in the Hall of Fameā€”they cannot win it again.)
  • In your nominations, include the bloggerā€™s name, their blogā€™s name, and a link to their blog. (Preferred format: Marie @ Drizzle & Hurricane Books.) It isnā€™t required, but it would be so lovely if you wrote a description for each blogger on why you chose to nominate them for that category!
  • To reiterate, you can nominate people by writing a post or through the google form. Tag your nomination posts with #2020BookBloggerAwards, and comment the link to your post.

VOTING ROUND LIMITATIONS

  • You must vote in at least half of the categoriesā€”12 out of 24ā€”or none of your votes will count.
  • A blogger will not appear in more than 2 categories in the voting round.
  • A blogger can only win 1 award category.

AWARD CATEGORIES

Though most are pretty self-explanatory, please donā€™t hesitate to ask any questions about what these categories entail! Specific qualifications/descriptions are included in parentheses.

BEST OF THEIR AGE

  • Best Pre-Teen/Teen Book Blogger (13-19)
  • Best Adult Book Blogger (20+)

BEST GENRE BLOGGERS

  • Young Adult
  • Middle Grade or Younger
  • New Adult / General Adult
  • Romance
  • Science Fiction / Fantasy
  • Literary Fiction / Classics / Poetry
  • Mystery / Thriller

BEST OF BOOK BLOGGING

  • Best Book Reviews
  • Best Book Recommendations
  • Best Discussion Posts
  • Best Blog Aesthetic
  • Best Blogging/Writing Voice

MISCELLANEOUS

  • Most Helpful (someone who posts thoughtful blogging guides/advice)
  • Most Supportive (someone who always shares othersā€™ posts in wrap-ups/has kind comments/boosts other bloggers with initiatives, etc.)
  • Most Engaged in the Community
  • Most Creative (creative/original posts)
  • Best Social Media Influencer
  • Best Personality
  • Friendliest Member of the Community
  • Best at Promoting Diverse Books

MOST IMPORTANTLY

  • Best New Book Blogger (started blog after August 2019)
  • Best Overall Book Blogger [two winners!]

*We took out Best Small Book Blogger this year, because we wanted to make sure that people arenā€™t voting for small bloggers ONLY in this category and instead throughout the categories as a whole, but if the result is unsatisfactory, we will reevaluate for next year!

HALL OF FAME

  • This isnā€™t a category you can nominate someone for, but itā€™s something new we want to try, courtesy of the lovely person who suggested this in last yearā€™s feedback form! (If this was you, please let us know so we can properly credit you!)
  • The Hall of Fame is reserved for bloggers who receive enough nominations to move on to the voting round for an award they previously won. We really want to showcase a variety of bloggers, instead of having the same bloggers win the same awards every yearā€”but this way, we still get to recognize them!
  • Ex: Marie won Best Overall Book Blogger last year. Say she gets enough nominations to move into the voting round for the same category this year. Instead of going to the voting round, sheā€™ll be replaced with the blogger with the next highest amount of nominations and be included in the results as a ā€œHall of Famerā€ for Best Overall Book Blogger.

GIVEAWAY

This is a special addition for this year: we are thrilled to be hosting an INTERNATIONAL giveaway for you all!

This giveaway is meant to be an incentive for participating in these awards and therefore helping boost book bloggers. Youā€™ll receive entries for the giveaway by promoting not only the awards but also the bloggers involved! You can win THE BOOK OF YOUR CHOICE!

  • This giveaway is opened INTERNATIONALLY (as long as Book Depository ships to you).
  • You must be 18 years old, or have your parentsā€™ consent to give out your mailing address. Your mailing address will only be used for the purposes of this giveaway and will not be kept.
  • This giveaway is open from June 28th, 2020 to August 16th, 2020, 11:59 p.m CDT. The giveaway winner will be notified by email and via social media. If the winner doesnā€™t answer within 48h, another winner will be picked out.

Click the image below, or enter here!

 

 

I hope you are as excited as I am for the 2020 Book Blogger Awards and that you will take this opportunity to celebrate and boost the INCREDIBLE work book bloggers are doing!

Are you going to be nominating bloggers?? Are you as excited as I am??Ā  If you have any question about it all, please let me know in comments!

 

 

 

 

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Comments

  2. Clo @ Cuppa Clo says

    Ah I am so excited for this, honestly this has made my Sunday and I can’t wait to nominate and boost so many book bloggers! <3 thank you both for your word and time you've put into these awards!

    Reply

  3. Linda @ flourishreader says

    I just saw May’s post too which made me really excited especially when I saw that you co-host the awards! ???? I’ll definitely write a nomination post soon and also participate for the giveaway (btw: thank you for the possibility and A BIG thank you for making it international!!). I’m really looking forward to everyone’s posts. :))

    Reply

  4. Jessica C Writes says

    Ahh I am SO excited for the awards!! I’ve been looking forward to them especially this year because it’s such a great way to discover new blogs and uplift those you love so much already! I’m so excited that you are co-hosting this year, too :))

    Reply

    • Marie says

      Ahhh yay! This makes me so, so happy. I hope you’ll discover some bloggers you’ll love again this year! šŸ˜€

      Reply

  7. Veronika @ Wordy and Whimsical says

    I’m so excited for this!! I joined in with the nominations super-late the last time around, so I’m hoping to do them sooner this year! And I can’t wait to discover new bloggers – I found so many incredible people last year. āœØ

    Reply

  10. Olivia @ Purely Olivia says

    I’m thrilled for this, Marie!! I love writing my post and lifting up all my fellow bloggers, and especially discovering new bloggers to support by reading all the posts from others in the community.? Thank you to you and May for hosting! xx

    Reply

  12. Pamela @ Reverie Society says

    Last year I enjoyed so much reading the nomination posts and visiting all the book blogs! I’m hoping to start following some new ones this year as well! Thank you for working on putting this together! And congratulations to all the community! ā™„

    Reply

  17. bec&books says

    Absolutely, I am voting/nominating! This is so well put together. Thank you for all the hard work and consideration you’ve put into this event!

    Reply

  18. Caro @ bookcheshirecat says

    Ahhh, I’m so excited!! I love the awards because it’s such a great way to find out about new bloggers and all the love going around is so heartwarming as well ? So grateful that May and you are hosting this great event for us ā¤

    Reply

  22. Caitlin @ Caitlin Althea says

    i am so excited for this, marie!!! i’m so glad that you’re co-hosting this years awards <3 <3 ahhhhhhhh i don't know how to express how pumped i am to see how everything will pan out this year ??

    Reply

  23. Sophie @BewareOfTheReader says

    Amazing!!! I will post my choices this weekend I think! Thanks for cohosting!

    Reply

  24. Ash @ Starlight Strands says

    i’m so grateful to you and May for hosting these wonderful awards, Marie!! the amount of love & positivity that spreads through these is simply amazing, i cannot wait to nominate all of my favorite bloggers, thank you again for all the tireless work you both are putting into this ā¤??

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  26. Jorie says

    Hallo, Hallo, Marie –

    I’ve never had the chance to participate in the book blogger awards in previous years… tonight, I found out I was nominated for one of the categories and my heart is truly full of joy and gratitude. It is the first time (to my knowledge) I’ve been nominated and I’m going to pass forward the joy of that nomination by nominating bloggers myself. I look forward to the results of this but more than anything I love the positivity being shared and how these are uniting all of us together in a way which highlights our individual strengths and how we try to continue to be a community of bookish souls who love to interact and share our readerly lives. Thanks for hosting!

    Reply

    • Marie says

      Oh thank you, Jorie! I’m so happy to hear you’ve been nominated and hope you’ll have a lot of fun nominating book bloggers, as well!
      It’s so important for us to highlight book bloggers’ incredible work šŸ™‚

      Reply

    • Marie says

      Aaaah Chana thank you so, so much, I’m so happy you had fun with these!! ? I’ll check out your post soon, thank you so much! ?

      Reply

  28. Gayathri Lakshminarayanan says

    Woohoo this sounds so fun. I love finding so many new bloggers through these awards. Great work team.

    Reply

    • Marie says

      No worries you’re all good, ? we got your nominations on time!
      THANK YOU so much for taking the time to nominate your favorites! ??

      Reply

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  8. […] May and Marie have put a lot of work into the preparations for the awards so that there are a lot of different and fun categories where one can vote and nominate book bloggers. I have picked out some of those to talk about in the following. Sometimes I picked one blogger for one category, sometimes I picked more. Since supporting smaller book blogs is really important to me I have included as many of them as possible, too. If you want to know more about the rules and categories click here or here. […]

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  26. […] So another year has come and gone and I’m starting to feel seriously old as it’s time for The Fourth Annual Book Blogger Awards!! This is my third time participating in the awards and I’m so excited to be nominating some people I love, as well as checking out other nomination posts to discover some amazing new bloggers ā¤ The awards are hosted by the amazing May @ Forever and Everly and Marie @ Drizzle and Hurricane Books! […]

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  27. […] So another year has come and gone and I’m starting to feel seriously old as it’s time for The Fourth Annual Book Blogger Awards!! This is my third time participating in the awards and I’m so excited to be nominating some people I love, as well as checking out other nomination posts to discover some amazing new bloggers ā¤ The awards are hosted by the amazing May @ Forever and Everly and Marie @ Drizzle and Hurricane Books! […]

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  60. […] cheat again and not list anyone (yet), as I am currently also working on my nomination post for the Fourth Annual Book Blogger Awards and most of my favorites are going to be there, so…stay tuned next week to find out! […]

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