The Parsec Awards was founded in 2006 to celebrate Speculative Fiction Podcasting, under the banner of Farpoint Media. The founders were Mur Lafferty, Michael R. Mennenga and Tracy Hickman. The Parsec Awards is currently seeking podcast nominations for 2016.

It is easy to nominate a podcast for consideration in the 2016 Parsec Awards. Read the category descriptions before you make a nomination (to make sure the podcast you want to nominate is appropriate for the Parsec Awards).

Next, make sure that podcast has not already been nominated. If the podcast is appropriate, and hasn’t already been nominated, it is a good idea to make that nomination yourself.

The Parsec Awards consider a podcast to be “audio or video delivered as part of a syndicated series that can be downloaded or streamed online. Listeners or viewers must be able to subscribe to updates that are either delivered automatically or are made available to the subscriber in some aggregated format.”

The Categories for the 2016 Parsec Awards are:

* Best Speculative Fiction Story: Small Cast (Short Form)

* Best Speculative Fiction Story: Small Cast (Novella Form)

* Best Speculative Fiction Story: Small Cast (Long Form)

* Best Speculative Fiction Story: Large Cast (Short Form)

* Best Speculative Fiction Story: Large Cast (Long Form)

* Best Speculative Fiction Audio Drama (Short Form)

* Best Speculative Fiction Audio Drama (Long Form)

* Best Speculative Fiction Video Story

* Best Speculative Fiction Magazine or Anthology Podcast

* Best New Speculative Fiction Podcaster/Team

* Best Speculative Fiction Fan or News Podcast (Specific)

* Best Speculative Fiction Fan or News Podcast (General)

* Best Podcast about Speculative Fiction Content Creation

* Best Fact Behind the Fiction Podcast

* Best Speculative Fiction Comedy/Parody Podcast