Announcing: Honorable Mentions

To say that we were overwhelmed by the response to the contest would be an understatement. 

As a result, as time ticked on and we drew closer to tallying votes and judges' scoring, we decided to honor a few additional entries and authors, in addition to our four main winners.

Tonight we will be announcing a series of "Honorable Mentions."  Entries that did well with the judges or voters - but didn't quite reach the top - or entries that stood out for another reason.

Below you will find honorable mentions in the following categories:

Judges' Mention (general) - 3
First Time Writer Mention - 2
Host Mention: Favorite Jasper / Bella - 1
Host Mention: Favorite JILF - 2
Host Mention: Favorite JILS - 2
Host Mention: Favorite Use of Edward -1

Thanks again to all of our entrants for submitting such amazing works.

Interested in which entries made us cry the most?  Which ones we loved even though they had the strangest pairings?  Our thoughts on anonymous judging versus open voting?  Elle and LVP will both be posting entries in the next couple of weeks, highighting some of their personal favorites and thoughts on the contest in general.

Announcing: Judges' Selection and Open Voting Winners

Judging and Voting for the "For the Love of Jasper" One-Shot Contest was broken into two parts: Judges' Selection and Open Voting. Judges' Selection involved four judges reading the entries anonymously. For more about how the Judges' Selection voting was conducted, please read this post: A word about JSR Judging... Open Voting was just that - voting open to all of the public.  We had wonderful turnout; thanks to everyone who took the time to read the entries and vote for their favorites.

Below you will find the four winners, a little bit about each one, and a fancy banner by AngstGoddess.  Please feel free to leave a comment for our winners!

Congratulations to the winners. We hope you enjoy these four entries as much as we did.

- ElleCC, LaViePastiche, and Jasper

P.S.  For a little something extra, tomorrow, Monday, October 26th, at 9:00 PM Eastern, we will be announcing a small set of Honorable Mentions. Be sure to come back and check those out, pretty banners and all.

A word about JSR Judging...

The Judges' Selection Round (JSR) judging was done anonymously.  Our four judges were provided with the text of a story, as well as story rating and primary pairing (when applicable), but they did not have title or author.

Contest Rules and Guidelines

Original contest rules and guidelines.