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GWAA Garden Globe Awards

Last weekend I joined a team of judges to determine the Garden Globe 
Awards. I know there has been some comment about the awards on this 
list in the past so I thought an overview of the proceedings might be 
interesting.

First, the calibre of people judging was very impressive - including 
a Pulitzer Prize winner and many previous award winners. The full 
list of judges and their bios will appear in the next Quill & Trowel 
along with most of the awards. We gathered in a hotel and spent all 
day Saturday and much of Sunday examining the entries, with different 
teams of judges concentrating on awards relating to their specific 
field of expertise to begin with, then all coming together as one 
group to determine the highest awards.

We all recognised, I think, as have people on this list, that the 
judging system is flawed but we worked very hard within the system, 
and sometimes with determined champions of different works pitted 
against one another, to ensure we arrived at the most just result. 
The system is laid down by the GWAA Board of Directors and some of 
the judges present will be submitting ideas for its improvement.

Particularly striking impressions of the weekend included:
1. The large number of good, competent, workmanlike entries. 
Fortunately there were also some genuinely outstanding ones.
2. The amount of good work, of which we were aware, that was not submitted.
3. The fact that the system needs overhauling and simplifying.

But I have to say that although the system would benefit from 
improvement the winners, when they are announced, and those who 
entered but did not win, can be confident that we were all (with Bob 
LeGasse and his team managing a very complex process and doing the 
statistical work) genuinely committed to ensuring that the best work 
rose to the top and gained the appropriate awards.

It would be easier for judges, and encourage more people to enter, if 
the system was improved. Anyone with thoughts about how this can be 
done should send their comments to the GWAA board.

Graham Rice

http://grahamrice.com

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