We’ve been so incredibly pleased and surprised by the First Time Writers Challenge Entries. They span Canon, AU, and AUH. Ratings K+ through M. We have everything from Bella and Edward to fics about Jane, Renee and Rose. All in all, we can’t be any more excited.

Voting will be open from 11/2/2009 through 11/15/2009.

A few gentle requests:

• Please take the time to read all the entries before submitting your vote.
• Please leave feedback for the stories you read in the way of reviews, we are sure the authors would appreciate thoughts/reactions/feedback/etc.
• Please vote for the best story regardless of things like rating, pairing, or genre. This is about recognizing and encouraging new talent – be open to trying some new things, you might find somethings that surprise and delight you.

Congrats to the first time writers for taking the leap of faith! We hope you all enjoying reading, we did!

The Indies First Time Writers Challenge Team
http://www.fanfiction.net/u/1932870/Indie_Twific_Awards

A few months ago we thought it was a crazy idea... it evolved into an epic quest for just the right logic... then once we were up and running the hours of validations and constant checks and balances were filled with wonder whenever we came across a true gem, and frustration when we realized it really was a LOT of work!

The winners will receive banners specially made for them by angstgoddess003 and t-shirts courtesy of WeBook Apparel (http://webookapparel.com). Thanks to both for their donations!

It is with great pleasure and even more excitement that we announce the winners of the Summer '09 Indie Twific Awards!



In addition to the winners selected by Voting via the readers, our panel of judges selected stories that deserve a recognition of merit as being amazing examples of Indie fics. These stories were selected from the full list of nominees (over 700 stories) that were part of our Summer '09 cycle.
The winners of the Judges Awards for Special Merit are:

   Ars Moriendi by vanilladoubleshot
   Commission by SpikeIsHotter
   Detriut by Somah
   Endless Daylight by Princess Bertha
   Sleepers, Awake: Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme by Feisty Y. Beden
   Someone Else’s Memoirs by a certain slant of light


To say that we are thankful for the participation during this cycle is an understatement. We had over an outstanding number of users registered during the whole process, the final round of voting pulled in over 1700 users alone! For a second we thought we would not surpass the amount of votes we got during the 1st round but we did, by a really healthy margin!

Thank you to every one of you that voted, to everyone that mentioned the awards and supported what we wanted to do. In the end we feel that we met our goal, and that is to highlight the amazing fics out there that may not get all the recognition they deserved.

We encourage you to bookmark our site as we will keep an Archive of all the stories nominated. That is truly the greatest result from this cycle.

You can find the full list of nominated stories by clicking HERE.
Also, we have set up a C2 in Fanfiction.net for the stories that can be found there. You can visit and subscribe by clicking HERE.
For updates please follow us on Twitter at: @TheIndiesTwific
You can also find us on the Twilighted threads at: http://www.twilighted.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=4113&start=0