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Hello one and all. Whether you are slowly burning to death in the northern hemisphere or quickly freezing in the southern hemisphere, I think we all can do with a distraction from the terrible effects of climate change. So why not spend the next few weeks while you sit at your computer in your underwear/buried under a mountain of blankets taking part in the SUMMER AWARDS 2016!!!!!
This season is a season of change: our goal this time is to get as many and a wide as possible range of stories and characters through the voting and judging rounds, and we hope you all are behind that message.
But before we get to that, we must start with the nominations. You have a week (or until 7PM June 12th NZT) to PM me with your nominations. However, we ask that you wait the next 24 hours before submitting anything. Because of our new rules, we want to make sure everyone has read as many stories as possible: plus, we moderators have snuck in first and placed our own nominations so people may have to read something else
Before we go any further, these are the big things you MUST be aware of:
- You must nominate one story and one character from someone else’s work when nominating your own stories/character, and they cannot have already been nominated this season. If you only submit nominations for your work it will not be eligible. You can follow the list in the next post to see which stories/characters have not already been nominated
- There is no limit on how many categories you can nominate in when nominating other people’s work. You still can only nominate one character and story per category though.
- We made a last minute decision and have decided to put all short stories under 3k in with Poetry. This is largely due to the limited range of poem anthologies and the influx of short stories over the six month period. Any poetry anthologies from the last twelve months are eligible in this contest due to no nominations in December. Apologies for the last minute-ness of this but we want to trial it and see how it works.
For the rest of the rules and a reminder of the categories, click the spoiler below. A detailed explanation of the categories is available in the Hall of Fame for any first time nominators.
Please feel free to ask for any further clarifications if my rambling makes no sense, which tis often the case. I encourage everyone to double check the content of their story before submitting and see if it can fit outside of the traditional Journey and Alternate. If your story has elements of Expansion or Dark to it, I would recommend submitting in those categories so we can try for a more even spread or work. At the same time, if your story has no elements of those two categories, obviously do not submit them there for the sake of a maybe easy win as we will just move it once judging begins – but be smart and don’t just go for Journey if you don’t have to.
You have a week, so get cracking and get nominating! We are always looking for new judges to join our team so if you want to give it a crack please send me a message! It basically just involves reading two stories over three weeks minimum – not a huge ask and does not take very long.
Thank you and good luck to all!
If you do not wish one of your characters or stories to be entered for contention, you can message me and request that they are blocked. This will prevent anyone from nominating the work you’ve selected. The block only lasts for these awards so you can enter it in the next awards if you wish. Please double check here before nominating. You can choose to block individual characters from a story but still nominate your own story.
Stories that did not meet the 20k limit for past winners are listed here as well.
Nominations are prevented for the following Stories and Characters:
This season is a season of change: our goal this time is to get as many and a wide as possible range of stories and characters through the voting and judging rounds, and we hope you all are behind that message.
But before we get to that, we must start with the nominations. You have a week (or until 7PM June 12th NZT) to PM me with your nominations. However, we ask that you wait the next 24 hours before submitting anything. Because of our new rules, we want to make sure everyone has read as many stories as possible: plus, we moderators have snuck in first and placed our own nominations so people may have to read something else
Before we go any further, these are the big things you MUST be aware of:
- You must nominate one story and one character from someone else’s work when nominating your own stories/character, and they cannot have already been nominated this season. If you only submit nominations for your work it will not be eligible. You can follow the list in the next post to see which stories/characters have not already been nominated
- There is no limit on how many categories you can nominate in when nominating other people’s work. You still can only nominate one character and story per category though.
- We made a last minute decision and have decided to put all short stories under 3k in with Poetry. This is largely due to the limited range of poem anthologies and the influx of short stories over the six month period. Any poetry anthologies from the last twelve months are eligible in this contest due to no nominations in December. Apologies for the last minute-ness of this but we want to trial it and see how it works.
For the rest of the rules and a reminder of the categories, click the spoiler below. A detailed explanation of the categories is available in the Hall of Fame for any first time nominators.
The categories:
-Best Journey Fic (for stories that follow a gym or contest storyline or something of a similar theme)
-Best Dark Fic (for stories that have dark and/or mature themes and storylines at the core of the story)
-Best Crossover/Non Pokémon Fic (for stories that cross Pokémon over with another franchise, is from a different fandom or is a completely original piece of work)
-Best Expansion (for stories that expand on canon characters and concepts)
-Best Alternate (for all Pokémon stories that don’t go anywhere else)
-Best Poetry and Short Prose (for any poetry anthologies, single poems or short stories 3k or less)
-Best Protagonist (the lead of your story)
-Best Antagonist (the villain of your story – though not just an evil baddie!!!)
-Best Supporting Character (any other character in your story)
-Best Pokémon Character (for Pokémon characters in a supporting role that have been written exceptionally well. Pokémon that speak human/English are allowed here, but Pokémon in Mystery Dungeon fics should be placed in protag/antag/supporting)
The rules:
- When nominating your own work, you can nominate two stories/characters per category, but there is a limit of four nominations for the story categories and seven nominations for the character categories. When you are nominating someone else's work, you are now allowed to nominate one story and one character in each category; there is no longer a limit on how many categories you can nominate. If you are nominating your own work, please place the nominations underneath the ones for your stories.
Here is a rundown of what that means:
- 4 of your own stories, two per category (eg 1 Journey, 1 Dark, 2 Alternate)
- 7 of your own characters, two per category (eg 2 protags, 2 antag, 1 supporting, 2 Pokemon)
- one nomination per story and character categories for work by another writer
The maximum number of nominations allowed is 21.
And remember: the story/charactet you nominate to qualify your work MUST NOT have already been nominated.
- A link to each story must be provided for ease of checking your work. Your entry will be void if you do not submit a link and I will not be reminding you. Any entries which are not properly filled out will be ignored.
Please submit links like this:
Since I have made it so easy to do it this way, if links are not submitted this way your nominations will be ignored.
- Fics that have been published or updated since December 22nd NZ Time are eligible for these Awards. You can update your work up until the end of the voting period for it to be counted during judging. Any chapter published once judging commences will not be taken into consideration. Any character you nominate must have appeared in a chapter that has been posted during this period. If your story makes it onto the judging round, we ask that you do not edit your past work on this site during that period. Doing so can make your entry void.
- Any story that has previously won an award must have 20k words of new content posted since December 22nd to be eligible for these awards.
- You may only nominate your stories in one category: ie, you can't submit 'Generic Journey Story # 247 ' in Best Journey and Best Expansion, only choose one. Do not try and slip your stories/characters into other categories in order to get them in (ie if you have three Journey fics and you try to get one of them nominated under Alternate). If we catch you out the entry will be made void.
- If a story or character has previously won in one category, it cannot be submitted into any other category without a providing a reasonable explanation as to why the change should be allowed. This would only be allowed if a character's role has drastically changed (ie an antagonist becomes a supporting character) or the story has changed genres (ie a Journey fic drops the journey elements and becomes Dark). The moderators will decide if the change is warranted.
- If a group of characters operate as a single entity, we will allow them to be submitted as one character.
- Do not ask people to nominate your work, as there is no point since you can just do it yourself.
-Best Journey Fic (for stories that follow a gym or contest storyline or something of a similar theme)
-Best Dark Fic (for stories that have dark and/or mature themes and storylines at the core of the story)
-Best Crossover/Non Pokémon Fic (for stories that cross Pokémon over with another franchise, is from a different fandom or is a completely original piece of work)
-Best Expansion (for stories that expand on canon characters and concepts)
-Best Alternate (for all Pokémon stories that don’t go anywhere else)
-Best Poetry and Short Prose (for any poetry anthologies, single poems or short stories 3k or less)
-Best Protagonist (the lead of your story)
-Best Antagonist (the villain of your story – though not just an evil baddie!!!)
-Best Supporting Character (any other character in your story)
-Best Pokémon Character (for Pokémon characters in a supporting role that have been written exceptionally well. Pokémon that speak human/English are allowed here, but Pokémon in Mystery Dungeon fics should be placed in protag/antag/supporting)
The rules:
- When nominating your own work, you can nominate two stories/characters per category, but there is a limit of four nominations for the story categories and seven nominations for the character categories. When you are nominating someone else's work, you are now allowed to nominate one story and one character in each category; there is no longer a limit on how many categories you can nominate. If you are nominating your own work, please place the nominations underneath the ones for your stories.
Here is a rundown of what that means:
- 4 of your own stories, two per category (eg 1 Journey, 1 Dark, 2 Alternate)
- 7 of your own characters, two per category (eg 2 protags, 2 antag, 1 supporting, 2 Pokemon)
- one nomination per story and character categories for work by another writer
The maximum number of nominations allowed is 21.
And remember: the story/charactet you nominate to qualify your work MUST NOT have already been nominated.
- A link to each story must be provided for ease of checking your work. Your entry will be void if you do not submit a link and I will not be reminding you. Any entries which are not properly filled out will be ignored.
Please submit links like this:
Step One: Highlight the name of the story
Step Two: Click this icon
Step Three: Paste the link in the red box
Step Four: You’re done! It should look like this
Step Two: Click this icon
Step Three: Paste the link in the red box
Step Four: You’re done! It should look like this
- Fics that have been published or updated since December 22nd NZ Time are eligible for these Awards. You can update your work up until the end of the voting period for it to be counted during judging. Any chapter published once judging commences will not be taken into consideration. Any character you nominate must have appeared in a chapter that has been posted during this period. If your story makes it onto the judging round, we ask that you do not edit your past work on this site during that period. Doing so can make your entry void.
- Any story that has previously won an award must have 20k words of new content posted since December 22nd to be eligible for these awards.
- You may only nominate your stories in one category: ie, you can't submit 'Generic Journey Story # 247 ' in Best Journey and Best Expansion, only choose one. Do not try and slip your stories/characters into other categories in order to get them in (ie if you have three Journey fics and you try to get one of them nominated under Alternate). If we catch you out the entry will be made void.
- If a story or character has previously won in one category, it cannot be submitted into any other category without a providing a reasonable explanation as to why the change should be allowed. This would only be allowed if a character's role has drastically changed (ie an antagonist becomes a supporting character) or the story has changed genres (ie a Journey fic drops the journey elements and becomes Dark). The moderators will decide if the change is warranted.
- If a group of characters operate as a single entity, we will allow them to be submitted as one character.
- Do not ask people to nominate your work, as there is no point since you can just do it yourself.
Please feel free to ask for any further clarifications if my rambling makes no sense, which tis often the case. I encourage everyone to double check the content of their story before submitting and see if it can fit outside of the traditional Journey and Alternate. If your story has elements of Expansion or Dark to it, I would recommend submitting in those categories so we can try for a more even spread or work. At the same time, if your story has no elements of those two categories, obviously do not submit them there for the sake of a maybe easy win as we will just move it once judging begins – but be smart and don’t just go for Journey if you don’t have to.
You have a week, so get cracking and get nominating! We are always looking for new judges to join our team so if you want to give it a crack please send me a message! It basically just involves reading two stories over three weeks minimum – not a huge ask and does not take very long.
Thank you and good luck to all!
If you do not wish one of your characters or stories to be entered for contention, you can message me and request that they are blocked. This will prevent anyone from nominating the work you’ve selected. The block only lasts for these awards so you can enter it in the next awards if you wish. Please double check here before nominating. You can choose to block individual characters from a story but still nominate your own story.
Stories that did not meet the 20k limit for past winners are listed here as well.
Nominations are prevented for the following Stories and Characters:
some rise by sin by kintsugi
Stainless Steel by Lugion
Lucky Egg by BinkVallen
Evelina Joy from The Long Walk by Beth Pavell
Stainless Steel by Lugion
Lucky Egg by BinkVallen
Evelina Joy from The Long Walk by Beth Pavell
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