The 2015 Russ Manning Award is accepting submissions. It's an award for newcomers, defined in explicit, not-messing-around fashion in the material through the link. I recommend people put in for any award for which they're eligible, and would encourage you to participate in this one in that same spirit.
One thing the page on the other side of the link that kicks off this post has that I'm not sure I've seen before now is a list of the past winners. I mean, I know some of them by heart by reading multiple descriptions of the award, but I'm not certain that I'd ever seen all of them on one list. They are:
