Alicia McKenzie
In 1998, Alicia McKenzie was reserved in her entries to the newly formed contest, offering "Promise"
to the Drama category, and appropriately winning the trophy. She also garnered the Reader's Pick
that year for her "Friendly Fire," coming out on top of a scarily tight race.
In 1999, she held nothing back; I personally remember her heading her submissions email with "Incoming!"
above a list of something like fifteen stories, approximately half the entries that year.
She was honored in four categories for "Raven Skies," "Make A Wish," "Surfacing," and "The Pros
and Cons of Unrepentant Sadism," while her "Broken" snatched the Best Story Overall award.
In 2001, we had to go without her talent in stories, but that was only because she instead offered
up her time and knowledge as a judge, for which I am eternally grateful. Ms. McKenzie has maintained
a reputation as pretty much the top writer of Cable-centric fic out there practically since she
danced onto the fanfic scene years and years ago, and I am happy to have had her talent involved
in the Prosh Awards.
Awards:
1998:Reader's Pick,
Best Drama.
1999: Best Adventure,
Best Comedy,
Best Romance,
Best SC Story,
Best Story Overall.
Congratulate Alicia: Email or Visit Her Website
Samy Merchi
Samy Merchi has long been known as one of the best writers of X-Force and New Mutants fanfic
in the comicfic community, and was the Prosh Awards' first major contributor. In 1998, our first year, he
submitted no less than nine excellent stories, more than a third of our total submissions.
In this year, he deservedly walked away with four of that year's trophies, honored for "Who's
Seducing Stevie?," "Rootless," and "Valentine's Night."
In 1999, he was unfortunately restricted by new submission rules (and he can blame me exclusively
for that), but he rose to the occasion with two above-the-bar submissions to our new Adult category,
one of which, "Who's the Boss?," won the category, awarding him a fifth trophy.
In 2001, the awards' final year, an even more serious overhaul in submission rules split the
competition into two categories, and Samy contributed one of the winners in each of those. Go
have a look at his contributions.
Awards:
1998:Best Author Overall,
Best Single-Character Story,
Best Crossover,
Best Romance.
1999: Best Adult Story
2001:Best Heavy Story,
Best Light Story
Congratulate Samy: Email or Visit His Website
