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 Because for all it's confusion, that's all that the category "Alternate Forms" really means:  something different.  Although we have awarded many deserving works in it over the past five years, the category -- whether we call it "Alternate Forms" of "Other Media" -- is something of a catch-all, a place for folks to recognize "none of the above."  Search engines, DVDs, reading series, websites, coffee table books, magazines, gaming modules, multimedia CDs, newsletters, soundtracks, music videos, and newsletters -- all compete for the same prize.
-I worry that this too readily becomes the dumping ground of the miscellaneous.  And though the criteria for judging, say, a Macromedia Flash e-poem against, say, an internet search engine are hardly in the same universe, there is, beyond the writing itself, one criteria consistently does emerge and dominate.  Otherness.  An "alternate form" is a structured text that is not fiction, not poetry, not non-fiction.  It is something different.  Something Other.  Something "alternate"...which in my mind translates into offering an "alternative."  We live in an era of alternate media and I hope that this category will remain attentive to it.  After all, horror is itself an alternative form on the literary marketplace.  It is a genre that is inherently something Other, something different, something unexpected.  And it is for that reason that I am truthfully most honored to receive this award.  Thank you very much.
+I worry that this too readily becomes the dumping ground of the miscellaneous.  And though the criteria for judging, say, a Macromedia Flash e-poem against, say, an internet search engine are hardly in the same universe, there is, beyond the writing itself, one criterion that consistently does emerge and dominate.  Otherness.  An "alternate form" is a structured text that is not fiction, not poetry, not non-fiction.  It is something different.  Something Other.  Something "alternate"...which in my mind translates into offering an "alternative."  We live in an era of alternate media and I hope that this category will remain attentive to it.  After all, horror is itself an alternative form on the literary marketplace.  It is a genre that is inherently something Other, something different, something unexpected.  And it is for that reason that I am truthfully most honored to receive this award.  Thank you very much.