Yes, but the Kerths are not until March or so. All stories that have been written in the past year (so from march 2006 to march 2007) can compete. The process goes like this:
- a nomination phase. Everyone can send in their nomination for different catagories (such as waffy, supershort, relationship). If your story is nominated by enough people, you're in the running!
- a voting phase. The nominations are published (about 5 per catagory) and everyone can send in their votes.
- a ceremony. The winners are announced and we all cheer! clap


You can find some more info and look at previous years here .


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