We are really excited to tell you about our newest affiliate — The Avant Garde Fan Fiction Awards – Sponsored by The Official Twilight Facebook Page.
Over at our sister site, Novel Novice Twilight, we run regular fan fiction contests for the Twilight Saga fandom. Some people may scoff at the notion of fan fiction, but here’s what we love about it:
- It gets fans writing. Writing is good! ANY writing! Writing fan fiction is excellent practice for writing skills in general, and can help make you a better writer for when you start writing your own original characters.
- It sparks creativity.
- It helps fans connect with each other.
- It gets fans READING … and we think ANY reading is good!
- It’s a great way to further explore characters & plot points in popular books.
- It’s fun!
In the fan fiction world, there are lots of awards — especially for Twilight fan fiction. But a lot of the time, the same authors win these contests — simply because they are so well-established and have such huge followings.
So the ladies behind the Official Twilight Facebook Page launched the Avant Garde Fan Fiction Awards to honor the “little guys” of Twilight fan fiction — the newer and lesser-known authors, whose stories are just as great as those from established authors.
Here’s a bit more from their website:
In the Avant Garde FanFiction Awards, we will be celebrating authors who have been on the scene for less than a year and are currently starting out on their FanFiction journey. This is our way of getting some great pieces of work out there and recognized among our all time favorites.
We also recognize that without our all time favorite FanFiction, we would not have stumbled on to this world, and for that reason, we will also be honoring such stories in our Hall of Fame category.
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