About the Goddess Award
In the year 2025, amidst a global renaissance of feminine empowerment and the reclamation of ancient archetypes in literature, the venerable Ladies Fancy Writere Award underwent a transformative rebirth, emerging as the Goddess Award. This evolution was not born of whim but of profound necessity: as the world grappled with seismic shifts in gender dynamics, amplified by movements championing women’s autonomy and divine heritage, the award’s stewards recognized that its original moniker, evocative of genteel Victorian fancies, had grown confining, like a corset in an era of unbound flight. The term “Ladies Fancy Writere” evoked a bygone deference to patriarchal shadows, where women’s creativity was framed as delicate pastime rather than cosmic force. By rechristening it the Goddess Award, the honor now invokes the raw, elemental power of mythological deities, Athena’s wisdom, Freya’s valor, and Kali’s fierce reinvention, mirroring the bold, unapologetic narratives of contemporary women’s fantasy fiction that shatter illusions and forge new realms. This change propelled the award into greater relevance, attracting a surge of diverse nominees and global acclaim, ensuring its legacy as a catalyst for stories that empower rather than merely enchant.
The winners are now selected through a democratic conclave of influential women leaders across spheres, CEOs of tech empires, heads of state, renowned artists, and philanthropists, who cast their votes in a virtual assembly each fall equinox, blending ancient ritual with modern technology to celebrate the scribes who channel goddess-like vision into prose.
History of the Goddess Award
In the annals of literary splendor, whence the quill doth dance upon parchment like a sprite in moonlit revelry, there emergeth the tale of the Ladies Fancy Writere Award: a beacon of esteem forged in the shadowed halls of antiquity, amidst the whispers of noble courts and the rustle of silken gowns.
It is said that in the Year of Our Lord 1587, during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, when England bloomed with tales of enchantment and the arcane arts held sway over the imaginations of the fair sex, a cabal of high-born ladies (wives to earls, dukes, and lords of the realm) gathered in secret conclave at the opulent manor of Burghley House. These dames, burdened not by the weight of scepters but by the ennui of gilded cages, found solace in the woven worlds of fantasy penned by women of wit and wonder. Yet, alas, such writers oft languished in obscurity, their tomes dismissed as mere fancies by the stern judgments of men.
Thus, moved by a shared ardor for tales of sorceresses, valiant heroines, and realms beyond the veil, these matrons decreed the inception of an honor most exalted: the Ladies Fancy Writere Award. Bestowed upon the authoress whose prose most artfully conjured realms of magic and feminine valor, it was to be adjudged not by scholars in dusty towers, nor by critics with ink-stained brows, but by the very wives of important men—those discerning souls who, in their boudoirs and salons, devoured such volumes with the fervor of a dragon guarding its hoard.
Each annum, as the harvest moon wanes and the frost kisses the earth, these august voters convene in veiled assembly, their ballots cast like spells upon the ether. From the consort Lords to the spouses of Admirals, they weigh the merits of enchanted narratives, debating with the passion of courtiers at masque. The recipient, adorned with a laurel of silver-threaded ivy and a purse of one hundred guineas, ascends to renown eternal, her works proclaimed in every lady’s chamber from London to the distant colonies.
Through wars and plagues, revolutions and enlightenments, the Ladies Fancy Writere Award hath endured, its prestige undimmed, for it whispereth a truth profound: that the fancy of women, though deemed light as gossamer, holdeth the power to reshape empires of the mind. Verily, in this age of progress, it remaineth a testament to the enduring magic of the writere’s art, voted ever by those who know the heart’s deepest enchantments.