K/Star Award

Award
Name:	K/Star Award
Date(s):	1984-1986
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.”

In the past there was some confusion over whether IDICon sponsored merit awards, which were called the K/Star Awards. No record of such sponsorship has been found and in 2018, one of the convention organizers confirmed that they had not sponsored the awards.

There were three award years, and the K/Star Award ceased with the discontinuation of Not Tonight, Spock!.

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 in 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" by Emily Ross 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)

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1985

• Best Zine: Nome #7 by Victoria Clark and Barbara Storey, eds.
• Best Long Story Writer: Linn O'Brien for To Invite the Night
• Best Short Story Writer: Vivian Gates for Folly in Still Another K/S Zine and From the Dark into the Light in As I Do Thee #1
• Best Humorist: Dawn’s Early Light
• Best Poet: Meg Fine for Tapestry of Two Lives in California K/S
• Best Artist: Caren Parnes

1986

• Best Zine: Nome #8 by Victoria Clark and Barbara Storey, eds.

1986 awards

• Best Short Story Writer: Second Lesson by Vivian Gates
• Best Long Story Writer: Courts of Honor by Syn Ferguson
• Best Poem: "In Accordance with Tradition" by Sharon F
• Best Humorous Piece: The Hard Sell by Vivian Gates
• Best Artist: Caren Parnes