Hey, FoLCs!
Hold onto your hats (and capes) because we’re heading into the 27th Annual Kerth Awards!
Authors: Be sure to get those *completed* stories posted by December 31st, 11:59pm (boards time) for them to be considered eligible for the 2025 Kerth Awards!
Last year’s trusty Kerth Committee is ready and raring to go again this season! As a friendly reminder, your Kerth Committee is:
Kerth Coordinator — Sara/KSaraSara
Technical Coordinator — Darth Michael
Volunteer Coordinator — JadedEvie
Activities Coordinator — lovetvfan
Technical Advisor — Annette
Advisor/Consultant — KathyB
We're very excited for this team to be at the helm again, and we’re especially grateful to our advising team. Annette, with her decades of experience in running our sites, is always available when we need her brilliant advice, while Darth Michael oils the machine that is our Kerth infrastructure. Lovetvfan coordinates the Kerth adjacent activities leading up to the Awards, and JadedEvie organizes the volunteer efforts, like the award presenters at the ceremony. That brings us to our fearless leader and ceremony host, KSaraSara, and her dedication to keeping the spirit of the Kerth Awards alive in this decade. And finally, KathyB offers unparalleled expertise, as she was part of the original K-Com.
But there’s more Kerth love to share before the ceremony itself! We need the help of lots of FoLCs to work with the K-Com to organize and present the ceremony. We’ll be posting some specific needs over the next few weeks, but start thinking about how you’d like to join in the fun this year. We’ll need big- and small-time commitments — everything from creating banners to presenting awards at the ceremony.
And this starts with category selection! The K-Com reviews the categories list every year to ensure it best fits the body of work that our authors have submitted in a given year. For instance, a larger than average batch of Super-Short Stories gave us the Micro-Short Story category, to ensure a better proportion of awards to fit the influx of stories that were that length/size. But your feedback is important, too! Is there a great new category out there just waiting for an award? Is there a category in use that should be renamed, rethemed or just put out to pasture (at the Kent’s farm, of course!)? Give us your suggestions, thoughts and hopes for categories down below in this thread (and get those comments in by Dec 31 for consideration!).
Last year’s 2024 Category List was as follows:
Best Micro-Short Story (1-5kb)
Best Super-Short Story (6-10kb)
Best Short Story (11-50kb)
Best Mid-Length Story (51-200kb)
Best Long Story (201+kb)
Best Comedy Story
Best Dramatic Story
Best Waffy Story
Best Revelation
Best Episode Adaptation (rewrite/fix-it/in-betweenie)
Best Elseworlds/AU Story
Best Kiss
Best Original Character/Supporting Character
Best Challenge Response
Best Nfic
Best New Author
Best Overall Story
Best Commenter/Feedback Giver
Best Original Fanart
Keep an eye out for another post coming around New Years in which we'll share the Kerth Season timeline! The timeline will include opening dates for activities, like last year’s writing challenges and quizzes, with chances for everyone to participate in the award season!
We're so excited to get rolling on this next Kerth Award season!
Have a question? Ask it here! Or you can PM any of the K-Com members or reach out on Discord too! You can also send an email to us here: Kcom@kerthawards.com
The Kerth Committee
(Sara, Michael, lovetvfan and Evie)
