1, choose the genre:

• Het (Male/Female)
• Fem Slash (Female/Female)
• Slash (Male/Male)
• Multi (Male/Female/Male; Male/Female/Female or if it contains both slash & het, and so on)

2, select the Fandom Category:

• Acted - TV & Movies (also include real person fanfic but should be labelled)
• Animation - TV & Movie
• Books
• Games & Comics
• Original Fic (This is also the Award Category do not go to step 3. Characters and universe should be original)

3, choose an Award category from the following: (now alphabetised)

• Best Drabble (under 500words)
• Best Established Relationship
• Best Extreme BDSM (E.G. knife play, breath play, branding, etc.)
• Best Fantasy/Role Play (The Rent Boy and his John; The cop and the prisoner; kidnap fantasy... etc)
• Best Fetish (From the well known - foot, hair, leather etc; to the obscure - Acrophlia, Bastinado, etc)
• Best First time (The first time the characters have sex/scene)
• Best Holiday/Celebration (christmas, halloween, bring your pet to work day)
• Best Humour (Kink but with a humorous twist)
• Best Hurt/Comfort
• Best Loveslave!Fic (consensual slavery)
• Best Romance
• Best Spanking scene (contains spanking of some variety, any type: hand, paddle, flogger...)
• Best Slave!Fic (non-consensual slavery – the sex itself doesn’t have to be non-con, but the slavery arrangement does)
• Best Use of Toys (traditional toys, paddles, whips, clamps, dildos, etc)
• Cleverest Crossover (Where two or more fandoms collide)
• Ingenious Pervertables (Pervertable = an item that isn't normally sex related perverted for use as a toy, EG Spanking with a wooden spoon)
• Most Angst
• Most Diabetic Coma Inducing (Sugary sweet fic (fluff), or ending, that should come with a warning for diabetics)
• Most Intense Scene (not necessarily the most hardcore, but it leaves you gasping for air at the end)
• Most Promising Newcomer - for an author's first fic with a BDSM flavour.