About The Eddie Awards
At the heart of the Eddies is the desire to draw attention to excellence in Twilight fan fiction.
There are four categories:
- Short Fiction: Defined for the purpose of this competition as stories shorter than 12,000 words.
- Mid-length fiction: Defined for the purpose of this competition as stories longer than 12,000 words, but shorter than 50,000.
- Novel (AU or Canon): Defined for the purpose of this competition as Alternate Universe or Canon stories longer than 50,000 words, but shorter than 180,000.
- Novel (AH): Defined for the purpose of this competition as All Human stories (no vampires) longer than 50,000 words, but shorter than 180,000.
There are other awards for Twilight fan fiction, but what makes the Eddies different is that every nomination is considered.
Procedure
The fics in each category that receive the most nominations will automatically move to the ballot. The remaining fics will be considered by a panel of peer validators. The peer validators go through the nominees and select the ones they believe most deserve to be on the ballot for this session. Once the ballot is filled, the voting period will be begin. During the voting period, judges will read the nominees in each category. At the end of the voting period, each category will have two winners: a winner selected by the voters, and a winner selected by the judges. It is possible for the same fic to win both awards. Both winners will be archived on the site.
Timeline
The Eddies are a yearly event. Nominations begin in December. Voting takes place in February. Winners are announced in March.
About The Bellie Awards
The Bellies are a light-hearted companion competition to the Eddies that run twice yearly, in Winter and in Summer. There is no judging component to the Bellies. All nominee slots will be filled by the stories that receive the most nominations.
The categories for the Winter 2010 session follow:
- Emmett You Want as Your Brother: This describes a fic with the best characterization of Emmett; an irritable grizzly so great that you’d want him to be the brother you call to beat up a boy who’s just broken your heart, or to play some old school Nintendo with when you’re sick, or to surprise you by having driven all the way from another state to get you drunk on your 21st birthday. Or something. Just an Emmett who’d make a good brother, okay?
- Wolfpack Award: This describes any fic whose main story is about one of the members of the Quileute tribe.
- Best Fansite: This is an award for the best Twilight-related, non-Eddies/Bellies website out there on the interwebs. Can be a blog, an independent website, or even a section of a larger website. Please provide a direct copy of the url (that’s the http://www.websitehere.com/bunchoflettersandnumbersifapplicable part).
- Most Consistently Updated: This describes a story that you think “Really? Didn’t this just update? OMG WHO CARES BRB READING”.
- AU Fic You'd Write a Fic for: This describes an alternate universe fic that is so good, you’d consider writing a fanfiction of it. Like, whoa. Trippy. Canon is not included in this because that’s what fanfiction is, technically. AU can be either vamp or human.
- Best "Edward Who?" Fic: This describes a fic where the OTP (One True Pairing, for those of you who hate acronyms) is not Bella & Edward. The fic creates a couple so tasty that you completely forget about that ~dazzling, bronze-haired God. Let’s be clear, here- in this fic, Bella does not end up with Edward, but he can be present in the story.
- Fic You'd Click on for the Title Alone: This describes a fic with a really great title. Doesn’t even matter if you like the story- haven’t you ever clicked just because the title was that good? We have.
- Best Trendsetting Fic: This describes a fic that did it first- whatever “it” was. You know what we mean- the fic that everyone says “Well, that was a great story, but it basically rips off __________.” We want the ___________ story.
- Best Missing Moment (Canon Award): This describes a fic that is CANON. Please- canon is a story that you could insert into the Twilight universe and everything that we know to be true from the books would remain unchanged. Best Missing Moment would be any fic that takes place either Pre-Twilight or during Twilight, New Moon (the books, please), Eclipse, or Breaking Dawn. Can be any point-of-view as long as it was never a scene written by the original author.
- Story That Makes You Wanna Throw Your Monitor: This describes a fic that you read and begin to rage. Doesn’t have to be in the bad way, either. Perhaps the characters continue to make decisions with their head up their butt; perhaps someone acts like such a jerk that you can’t stand it. Whatever the reason, after you read an update, you’re possessed with the urge to wake someone up (because you know it’s 3 a.m., admit it) just so you can have your anger validated, or you get on chat and start all-capsing your fic buddy with things like OMG DID YOU READ I’MMA KILL SOMEONE I CAN’T BELIEVE HE DID THAT. Et cetera, et cetera.
- Fic That Keeps You Up 'Til 3 A.M. Reading: We’ve all done it. The story was so good that you think to yourself “Hmm, it’s ten. I can get away with two more chapters and then I’ll finish tomorrow after work.” Suddenly, it’s twenty chapters later, it’s 2:30 a.m., and you think OMG THREE MORE CHAPTERS I CAN DO THIS WHO CARES I’M ALREADY SCREWED FOR PRODUCTIVITY TOMORROW and you do, indeed, finish the story. Basically, you sacrifice your personal health, your marriage, your schoolwork, and all other things that are important because you chose to finish the story instead of wondering what you missed by choosing sleep over the fic.
About The Hall of Fame
The Hall of Fame was created to recognize classic Twilight fan fiction that everyone will want to read. There is no date or length requirement. The only requirement for a story to be inducted into the Hall of Fame is that it is complete. Nominations are taken during the Eddies & Bellies voting process in Winter. The three stories that receive the most nominations are inducted.