Spring/Summer 2013 Round - Nominations RULES & TIMELINE
Are you ready to begin submitting your nominations for the Spring/Summer 2013 Round of The HP Fanfic Fan Poll Awards?
Please remember the following changes for this Round (as previously announced):
1. Nominations period: Monday, April 1st (12:01am PST) to Sunday, April 28th (11:59pm PST).
2. The only fanfics that qualify for this Round’s Nomination period must have been completed between April 29th, 2012 - April 28th, 2013. No Works-In-Progress (WIPs).
3. Your nominated stories cannot have been previously nominated for any Round of this award ceremony ( see a list of previously nominated stories here). THE SOLE EXCEPTION TO THIS RULE: The 'Best Legacy Story' Category (see #5 below for details).
4. The only stories that can be submitted for Nomination for the Spring/Summer 2013 Round are from the following Groups/relationships (ships):
5. The Categories to Nominate stories under are:
6. Fanfiction only - no other medium considered for these awards.
7. You can only nominate 1 STORY per CATEGORY per SHIP. A story CAN be nominated in multiple Categories (in other words, the same story can be nominated for Best Romance, Best Smut, and Best Comedy, for instance, if you want), but you only get to fill the slot for that Category with ONE nomination. If you need examples, please see this post (scroll down).
TO NOMINATE A FANFIC:
Fill out the following information below and email it to us here through LJ or to our home email address (hpfanficfanpollmod at gmail dot com).
Fill out one of the above for each Group/Ship you wish to nominate fics for.
You don't have to nominate a story for every Category listed above, nor do you have to send all of your nominations in at one time. You can nominate stories for only the Categories you want, and you can send in your nominations piecemeal (for example: you can send in Best Legacy Story, Best Het Smut, and Best Drabble today, and tomorrow you can send in Best Comedy, and next week you can send in Best Dark Fic).
See examples of how to nominate stories here (scroll down the page).
Here is our pimping banner for you to put up on your blogs:
Please remember the following changes for this Round (as previously announced):
1. Nominations period: Monday, April 1st (12:01am PST) to Sunday, April 28th (11:59pm PST).
2. The only fanfics that qualify for this Round’s Nomination period must have been completed between April 29th, 2012 - April 28th, 2013. No Works-In-Progress (WIPs).
3. Your nominated stories cannot have been previously nominated for any Round of this award ceremony ( see a list of previously nominated stories here). THE SOLE EXCEPTION TO THIS RULE: The 'Best Legacy Story' Category (see #5 below for details).
4. The only stories that can be submitted for Nomination for the Spring/Summer 2013 Round are from the following Groups/relationships (ships):
- Harmony (Harry Potter x Hermione Granger)
- Scorose (Scorpius Malfoy x Rose Weasley)
- Dramione (Draco Malfoy x Hermione Granger)
- Albius (Albus S. Potter x Scorpius Malfoy)
- Snily (Severus Snape x Lily Evans)
- Tom Riddle Jr./Voldemort x anyone
- Minerva McGonagall x anyone
- Golden Trio threesome (Harry Potter x Hermione Granger x Ron Weasley)
- Hogwarts Founders x anyone (Godric Gryffindor/Helga Hufflepuff/Salazar Slytherin/Rowena Ravenclaw x anyone; slash/femmeslash/het, same gen or cross-gen allowed)
- Weasleycest (any Weasley x any other Weasley; slash/femmeslash/het, same gen or cross-gen allowed)
- Gen fic (stories not concentrating on any romantic or sexual relationship - any era)
5. The Categories to Nominate stories under are:
- Best Drabble (a ficlet of 500 words or less)
- Best Drama-Angst Fic (any size)
- Best Dark Fic (any size - see the definition for what qualifies as 'dark' material here)
- Best Comedy (any size)
- Best Romance (any size)
- Best Het Smut (any size, only for heterosexual couples)
- Best Slash Smut (any size, one for male homosexual couples)
- Best Femmeslash Smut (any size, only for lesbian couples)
- Best Threesome/Moresome (any size, for het/slash/femmeslash action involving three+ people at the same time involved in the sexual situation)
- Best A/U (any size)
- Best Legacy Story (any size - any story that was written and completed at any point between 1997-current. This Category is supposed to represent the story which is your most favorite story for that ship for all time. We've decided that it CAN be a story previously nominated in other Rounds of this awards ceremony.)
6. Fanfiction only - no other medium considered for these awards.
7. You can only nominate 1 STORY per CATEGORY per SHIP. A story CAN be nominated in multiple Categories (in other words, the same story can be nominated for Best Romance, Best Smut, and Best Comedy, for instance, if you want), but you only get to fill the slot for that Category with ONE nomination. If you need examples, please see this post (scroll down).
TO NOMINATE A FANFIC:
Fill out the following information below and email it to us here through LJ or to our home email address (hpfanficfanpollmod at gmail dot com).
- Your email address:
- Group/Ship:
- Best Drabble (story name, author name, URL):
- Best Drama-Angst Story (story name, author name, URL):
- Best Dark Fic Story (story name, author name, URL):
- Best Comedy (story name, author name, URL):
- Best Romance (story name, author name, URL):
- Best Het Smut (story name, author name, URL):
- Best Slash Smut (story name, author name, URL):
- Best Femmeslash Smut (story name, author name, URL):
- Best Threesome/Moresome (story name, author name, URL):
- Best A/U (story name, author name, URL):
- Best Legacy Story (story name, author name, URL):
Fill out one of the above for each Group/Ship you wish to nominate fics for.
You don't have to nominate a story for every Category listed above, nor do you have to send all of your nominations in at one time. You can nominate stories for only the Categories you want, and you can send in your nominations piecemeal (for example: you can send in Best Legacy Story, Best Het Smut, and Best Drabble today, and tomorrow you can send in Best Comedy, and next week you can send in Best Dark Fic).
See examples of how to nominate stories here (scroll down the page).
Here is our pimping banner for you to put up on your blogs:
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THE HP FANFIC FAN POLL AWARDS - SPRING-SUMMER ROUND 2013
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To Make Nominations/Ask Questions: hpfanficfanpollmod@gmail.com
Nomination period: April 1st - April 28th, 2013
Voting period: May 1st - June 30th, 2013
Winners announced: by July 10th, 2013