Rules

The awards will have 4 main categories in each forum:

Best Fan Fiction

Best Short Story

Best Ficlet

Best Author

 There will be one winner and two runners up in each category in every forum that nominates stories and authors, however, the final call on this will be left to the discretion of the coordinators.

Both authors and readers are eligible to nominate stories.

You can nominate upto 3 stories under each category and up to 3 authors for the Best Author category.

Authors can nominate 2 of their own stories in each category but cannot nominate themselves for Best Author.

Please submit your nominations in the respective nomination threads for each forum stating clearly the category you’re nominating the story for.

Please make only one post for all your nominations in one forum.

We would like to spread the word about these awards as much as possible and create a buzz, so while nominating, please tag 5 of your friends/ readers/ writers in your nomination post.

 You must provide an embedded link to the story and the name of the author.  

Eg. Correct way of nominating: 

Ramya's Potpourri of Prose and Poetry 

by moonglade 

Incorrect way of nominating:

 Ramya's Potpourri of Prose and Poetry by moonglade

Authors can ask their readers to nominate their stories by tagging them.

Ficlets and short stories must be completed before 15.2.2022. Fanfictions can be ongoing, however, please note that stories that have not been updated for more than a year will not be eligible.

All nominated stories will be migrated to the New Fan Fiction section.

The whole story needs to be posted on IF. Stories that are published on other platforms and linked here will not be considered.

Once migrated, Authors can request a book cover in the Fan Fiction Book Cover Shop #23.

The stories WILL NOT be beta-read by the IF BetaReaders for this contest.  However, after the winners of the awards are announced, the authors can put up the story for beta-reading in the 

House of Beta Readers thread.

There will be two Phases in this contest based on participating forums:

Phase 1: Star Plus, Fan Fiction Forum, Mythological Masti Forum, Closed forums

Phase 2: Sony, Colors, Zee, Closed forums 

The last date for nomination for Phase 1 is 25 February 2022, 11.59 PM IST.

Star Plus (All forums): Aparajita_K, Serpensortia

Fan Fiction Forum and closed forums (Star):

Aparajita_K, Grey_licious

Mythological Masti forum: Viswasruti, Grey_licious