Rules

Nominating

  1. Only fan fictions that have never won an Isis Award in the past are eligible to be nominated. Please read the list of previous winners carefully before nominating a fic that is more than 1 year old.
  2. No slash, even if it's not the main pairing in the fic. Nothing against slash, this is just intended as a het fanfic award.
  3. No non-con or incest, and no statutory pairings. For the purposes of this award, incest is defined as sexual contact between two people who are related by blood or legal adoption. A "statutory pairing" is anything where an adult is paired with someone who is underage (since this is an international award, this includes anyone under the age of 18).
  4. No Sam/Jack or Sheppard/Weir, unless it's not the primary pairing in the fic. A Sam/Jack fic with Daniel/Janet on the side is not eligible, but a Daniel/Janet fic with mentions of S/J is.
  5. No stories where two characters are together only because they're both pining after someone else. If Daniel and Sam are sleeping together *only* because Daniel is mourning Sha're and Sam wants Jack but can't have him, that is not a Daniel/Sam romance no matter how much the focus may be on them.
  6. Any fic that demonizes or maliciously kills off a character--any character--to promote a rival pairing will not be accepted.
  7. A story can only be submitted to one primary category, and it should be the category of the main ship in the story; if the fic is Daniel/Vala with a side of Cam/Sam, it can *only* be nominated as Daniel/Vala.
  8. A story can only be nominated in one subcategory--this is so that no one story will dominate all of the categories or win multiple awards while others get nothing.
  9. Please only nominate up to three stories per subcategory.
  10. Nominated stories should be beta-read or at the very least readable; a few typos or grammatical slips are okay, but if it's so bad that the reader for that category can't get through the story, we will not accept the nomination. We will also not accept fic that is wildly out of character to the point where even proponents of that ship don't agree with it.
  11. We DO accept works in progress, but be aware that any story that wins an award this year is not eligible to be nominated again next year, so consider whether or not you want to be able to nominate the finished story before you nominate the work in progress.
  12. You MAY nominate your own fic provided you abide by the rest of the rules stated above.
  13. The organizers reserve the right to disqualify nominations at our discretion based on the rules above.

Voting

  1. You may only vote ONCE in each (sub)category. If we find anyone breaking this rule, all of their votes will be disqualified.
  2. You may vote for your own work, as long as you abide by rule #1.
  3. You may not tell other people how to vote. If you want to let them know that you have been nominated, that's fine, but that's it. If they really love your work, they won't need to be prompted.