(The nominations for X-Mormon of the Year 2024 are currently open here.)
This year marks the fifteenth year of the Brodie Awards!!! I hope many of you are already familiar with how this works — but I also hope there are also some new people participating for the first time this year!! Especially for the new people, let me explain a bit about how this works:
The Brodies are a set of awards like the Oscars (or Grammys, Emmys, Tonys, etc.) specifically geared towards LDS-interest (and particularly X-LDS-interest) content creators.
The categories themselves are crowd-sourced and change from year to year — based on what types of content were well represented over the past year. There are two main sections: year-long awards for content creators (and their sites/channels) and awards for individual works.
Anyone can nominate (in the comments below and/or in the corresponding Reddit threads). Please feel free to nominate yourself and your own works (up to 3 times).
Please, please include links in your nominations. Sometimes comments with links get stuck in moderation — if this happens to you, please email me at chanson dot exmormon at gmail dot com, and I’ll approve your comment.
I will start with a set of suggested categories — but please feel free to suggest your own categories! Each category needs to have three nominees in order to be included in the voting phase — so please be ready with three nominees if you have a category suggestion that you’d like to see included.
Year Long Awards
Best New LDS-Interest Content Creator 2024 (includes new channels and websites, but the earliest post must date no earlier than Nov/Dec 2023)
Best LDS-Interest Podcast 2024
Best LDS-Interest Video Channel 2024
Best LDS-Interest Discussion Community/Forum 2024
Best LDS-Interest Blog or Magazine 2024
Best LDS-Interest Informational Site 2024
Awards for Individual Works
Best LDS-Interest Book (Fiction) 2024
Best LDS-Interest Book (Narrative non-fiction) 2024
Best LDS-Interest Book (non-narrative, non-fiction) 2024
Best LDS-Interest Poetry Collection 2024
Best LDS-Interest Song 2024
Best LDS-Interest Image 2024
Most Humorous LDS-Interest Work 2024
Best Exit Story 2024
Best LDS-Interest Podcast Episode 2024
Best LDS-Interest (Post/Episode) Title 2024
Best LDS-Interest Investagative Reporting 2024
Most Insightful Analysis of LDS Culture or Doctrine 2024
Best LDS History Piece 2024
Best Analysis of Mormonism and Marginalized Groups 2024
Again, please feel free to add your own categories, and especially please, please add your nominations of your favorite works!! As every year, I really look forward to checking out (and signal-boosting) the best LDS-interest content and content creators of the past year!!
I like this meme from The Lord’s Newsroom on Instagram for the LDS Image category:
LDS Church Faces New Class-Action as Members Demand Their Planets.
https://www.instagram.com/thelordsnewsroom/p/DDAjcfcB-o5/
Will there be a specific humor category this year?
Yes, absolutely, if we have at least 3 nominations! I listed that among my suggested categories: “Most Humorous LDS-Interest Work 2024”
Could I nominate my Queer book of scripture, “The Book of the Lavens”, for “Best LDS-Interest Book (Fiction) 2024”?
https://gileriodekel.com/lavens/
As long as it was published in 2024, you absolutely can nominate it. Thanks for your nomination!
Lavens was released back in July of 2024 🙂
Second Class Saints by Matthew Harris. Best Non Fiction book and history book and best podcast series.
Heaven’s Helpline for best investigative journalism piece.
@Brian Stagg — Thanks for your nominations!! Can you provide links to them?