K/Star Award
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| Name: | K/Star Award | |
| Date(s): | 1984-? | |
| Frequency: | annual | |
| Format: | vote | |
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| Fandom: | Star Trek - K/S | |
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The K/Star Awards were slash fan fiction awards. They were first announced by the editors of Not Tonight Spock:“The K/Star Awards are an attempt to spotlight the writers, artists, poets, and editors who give of their time and talents to feed our addiction to K/S.” The awards were sponsored by the organizers of the first K/S convention IDICon.
1984
- Best Zine — Nome 6 (other nominees: Final Frontier #2, Out of Bounds, Again, T'hy'la #3, Twin Destiny #1)
- Best Short Story — “Dealers in Kevas and Trillium” by K.S. T’Lan (T’hy’la #3) (other nominees: "The Question" in Final Frontier #2, "Seasons of the Heart" in And Another K/S Zine, and "The Weakest Link, the Slowest Ship" in And Another K/S Zine)
- Best Long Story — Broken Images by Beverly Sutherland (Nome Special Edition) (other nominees: "An Inhabited Garden" in The Final Frontier #2, "And Never Parted" in Nome #6, and "This Simple Feeling" in Nome #6)
- Best Poem — “Twin Destinies” by Sharon F. (Twin Destiny 1) (other nominees: "Center of the Circle" in Twin Destiny #1, "Georgia Ramblin'" in Nome #6, and "Untitled #1 and #2" in T'hy'la #3)
- Best Humor — “Rumor Has It” by Devery Helm (Nome 6) (other nominees: "For the Man Who Has Everything" in Out of Bounds, Again, "It's Not Easy Being Green in Out of Bounds, Again, "Shopping Daze" in Twin Destiny #1)
- Best Artwork — Out of Bounds, Again cover by Gayle F. (other nominees: from Broken Images by Connie Faddis, Center of the Circle, fold-out work by Suzan Lovett in Twin Destiny #1, Twin Destiny cover, and "Virgin Spock" by Ann Crouch in "Twin Destiny #1)
1985
- Best Zine: Nome 7 (Victoria Clark and Barbara Storey, eds.)
- Best Long Story Writer: Linn O'Brien (“To Invite the Night”)
- Best Short Story Writer: Vivian Gates (“Folly” in Still Another K/S Zine and “From the Dark to the Light” in As I Do Thee #1
- Best Humorist: Dawn’s Early Light
- Best Poet: Meg Fine (“Tapestry of Two Lives” in California K/S)
- Best Artist: Caren Parnes
1986
- Best Novel - Icefire by Ann Mara Crouch
