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Categories

Along with the Nomination Rules, there are specific requirements for each category that must be fulfilled. Each category, with the exception of Best Challenge Response, has a judge and a category supervisor. Once you nominate a story, it goes first to the judge. If it passes the judge, it will continue to the category supervisor, who then double-checks that every requirement has been met. The category supervisor then posts the nominee up to the site.

Any questions should be directed to the judge, not the category supervisor.

SPECIAL SUMMER ROUND (RETURN FROM HIATUS EDITION)

♥ Best Het

Judged by Ellie
Category Supervisor: Drew
Sub-categories: Complete, Incomplete
Six stories nominated per sub-category.
In a Nutshell: This award is for the best story with a heterosexual main pairing.
The main pairing in the story must be het (short for heterosexual, means the characters in the pairing must be male and female) for the duration of the entire story.
Must state names of characters in het pairing.

♥ Best Slash

Judged by Cindy
Category Supervisor: Carol
Sub-categories: Complete, Incomplete
Six stories nominated per sub-category.
In a Nutshell: This award is for the best story with a main pairing being slash.
Main pairing must be slash, meaning the characters in the pairing must be both male or both female.
Must state names of characters in slash pairing.

♥ Most Creative Plot

Judged by Ashes
Category Supervisor: Sonika
Sub-categories: Complete, Incomplete
Six stories nominated per sub-category.
In a Nutshell: This award is for the story with the most original and creative plot.
Story cannot be nominated in Best Cliche and Most Creative Plot at the same time. (That'd just be oxymoronic, wouldn't it?)

♥ Best One-Shot

Judged by Nettie
Category Supervisor: Lou
Sub-categories: Winner, Runner-Up
Twelve stories nominated total.
In a Nutshell: This award is for the best short story (i.e. one-shot).
Story must be complete
Story must only have one chapter

♥ Best Non-Romance

Judged by Drew
Category Supervisor: Cindy
Sub-categories: Complete, Incomplete
Six stories nominated per sub-category.
In a Nutshell: This award is for the story without romance as its key attraction.
Can have romance within story, but must not have Romance as one of its subgenres, or as its main genre.
Must be at least 10,000 words

♥ Amazing Wordsmith

Judged by Grace
Category Supervisor: Julia
Sub-categories: Winner, Runner-Up
Six stories nominated total.
In a Nutshell: This award is for the best established romance author. For new authors, see "Best Breakout Author" award.
Must specify name of author
Author must show proficiency in grammar, punctuation, and all other technical aspects of writing.
Author must have at least 15,000 words posted on FictionPress total (if the author prefers one-shots, the total word count for all of the one-shots must be greater than 15,000)
One of the author's stories must be nominated in a previous round before being nominated for this category

♥ Best Challenge Response

Judged by Jenina
Sub-categories: Winner and Runner-Up (chosen by Jenina), Readers' Pick (voted for by readers)
In a Nutshell: This award is for the story with the best challenge response. The challenge can be issued by anywhere (although we here at SKoW do provide you with a number of challenges in our Yahoo! Group, if you so wish to try one out).
To submit a challenge response, you must either advertise it on the Yahoo! Group message boards, e-mail the response to me, or submit it using the form provided during the nomination period.
Infinite number of submissions
Must be complete
Must specify name and location of challenge (or else identify it in the story itself)
Must follow specifications of each challenge
For more information, go to the Challenges page.

♥ Best Breakout Author

Judged by Meagan
Category Supervisor: Jackie
Sub-categories: Winner, Runner-Up
Six stories nominated total.
In a Nutshell: This award is for the best new author, who has not been recognized by SKoW before as a nominee.
Author cannot have been nominated for Amazing Wordsmith.
Author's stories cannot have been nominated for any previous round (although they can be nominated for the current round)
Author must show proficiency in grammar, punctuation, and all other technical aspects of writing.
Author must have at least 15,000 words posted on FictionPress total (if the author prefers one-shots, the total word count for all of the one-shots must be greater than 15,000)

♥ Best Poetry

Judged by Julia
Category supervisor: Tasha
Sub-categories: Winner, Runner-Up
Six pieces nominated total.
In A Nutshell: This award encompasses all of romantic poetry and picks the best one of the masses.
Poems -- even epic, chaptered ones -- must be complete to be nominated for this category.

♥ Best Drama

Judged by Candice
Category supervisor: Meagan
Sub-categories: Complete, Incomplete
Six pieces nominated total.
In A Nutshell: This award's name speaks for itself. It awards the most emotionally wrenching story.

♥ Most Humorous

Judged by Tasha
Category Supervisor: Grace
Sub-categories: Complete, Incomplete
Six stories nominated per sub-category.
In a Nutshell: This award is for the most humorous story.

♥ Best M-Rated

Judged by Carol
Category Supervisor: Ellie
Sub-categories: Complete, Incomplete
Six stories nominated per sub-category.
In a Nutshell: This award is for the best M-rated story.
Must be M-rated, obviously, but has to be M-rated with reason, not "just to make sure".

♥ Best Original Universe

Judged by MaGa
Category Supervisor: Ashes
Sub-categories: Winner, Runner-Up
Six stories nominated total.
In a Nutshell: This award is for the best fictional universe. This means that the story cannot take place in reality. This can range from magical realism (example: real life, but children rule the world) to completely original universes (example: Middle Earth).
Requires a brief description of the universe in question and how it differs from reality.

♥ Best International

Judged by Sonika
Category Supervisor: Candice
Sub-categories: Winner, Runner-Up
Six stories nominated total.
In a Nutshell: This award was created to celebrate Round 10's theme of Around the World, which celebrated the FIFA World Cup 2010. Since the Olympics are around the corner, we thought of bringing this category back for a spin! It is for the story that best portrays the country that the story is set in. (For example: A story set in Japan -- story with really good and realistic descriptions of Japanese life, culture, and setting.)
Can be a one-shot. However, the one-shot must be a reasonable length (3000+ word count).
Can take place in more than one country.

♥ Best MC Portrayal

Judged by Lou
Category Supervisor: MaGa
Sub-categories: Winner, Runner-Up
Six MCs nominated total.
In a Nutshell: This award is for the best portrayal of a singular protagonist in a story.
Must specify name of MC (main character)

♥ Best Villain

Judged by Jackie
Category Supervisor: Nettie
Sub-categories: Winner, Runner-Up
Six stories nominated total.
In a Nutshell: This award is for the best antagonist, opposite the protagonist. Please note that the main character in a story is the protagonist, even if he/she is evil. If he/she is evil, then the villain would then be the one trying to stop his/her misdeeds.
Best Villain nominee cannot also be nominated in Best MC Portrayal
Must state villain's name