In November, all eyes will be at SteemFest. And I'll be there, honoring the best authors from Steemit with the Golden Steem Awards.

The Golden Steem Awards is the first award created to promote both the most accomplished and the yet to be discovered Steemit authors, picked by you!

Over the next four weeks, you'll nominate and vote for your favorite authors in five categories:

• Best Photography
• Best Original Art
• Best Original Fiction
• Best Life Advice
• Best Undiscovered Author

How to nominate?

To nominate, just post a reply to the top level comment on this post that describes the appropriate category containing a link to a Steemit post that fits that category.

On October 25th, the top 20 nominations in each category will move to the Ballot phase and will be announced in a new post. From there, our judging committee will select the winner between the four top voted posts in each category, and I will announce them live at Steemfest.

The prize pool will consist of all the SBD & STEEM generated from all the posts and comments related to the Awards, divided equally for each category.

Rules

Only content posted on Steemit up to the date of this announcement is eligible for this edition of the awards. The poster must be the original author of the work.

For the Best Photography, Best Original Art, Best Original Fiction and Best Life Advice single posts should be nominated from their respective categories. Only one post of each author will move on to the voting phase in each category.

For the Best Undiscovered Author category, the author should not have had a post worth more than $200 SBD up to the time of this announcement. Authors should be nominated through a post representative of his work.

Finalists will be selected by votes in the Ballot post. The winners will be selected from the top four voted works in each category by a judging committee composed of @burnin, @roelandp, @jesta, and @kevinwong.

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Help promote the Golden Steem Awards! Resteem, tell your friends and nominate your favorite authors now!

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EDIT: Nominations are closed! Check back later to cast your vote in the Ballot thread.