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BEST OVERALL WRITER
The writer you look forward to more from. The writer whose stories you've read multiple times. The writer that consistently captures our show and it's characters, writing them with great style and grammar.

NOTE: For this category, nominees will not be listed until voting begins.

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BEST NEW WRITER
The writer who is new to Psychfic since the last awards and has shown exceptional writing ability. This new writer has great potential and will be sure to grace us with wonderful Psych stories for years to come.

NOTE: For this category, nominees will not be listed until voting begins.

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BEST MYSTERY
The best Psych mystery that you have read. Definition of a Mystery: a story whose plot involves a crime or other event that remains puzzlingly unsettled until the very end.

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BEST ROMANCE
The best Psych romance that you have read. I think you all know what a romance is so I'll leave the description to no more than that.

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BEST ANGST
The best Psych angst that you have read. Definition of Angst: A feeling of anxiety or apprehension often accompanied by depression.

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BEST EPISODE TAG/MISSING SCENE
The best episode tag or missing scene. Nominations in this category can be short stories or chapter stories, so long as they are a tag or missing scene to an episode of Psych.

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BEST SHORT
The best short story or one-shot. Nominations in this category can be no longer than one to three chapters.

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BEST REVIEWER
What loyal reviewer do you remember the most? What reviewer consistently gives you great, constructive.... and creative feedback? What reviewer do you always look forward to hearing what they have to say?

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MOST PSYCH-LIKE
A story that could literally be put on the small screen as one of Psych's episodes. You could almost swear one of Psych's official writers had penned the tale.

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MOST PSYCH-LIKE TITLE
A story title that is so creative and just SO Psych-like that you wish you thought of it yourself.

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BEST STANDALONE
This category is for all those never ending oneshot stories. Stories like the '100 Themes' challenge answers, and the 'Moments' stories. This is the only category other than the Most Wanted WIP that the stories are NOT completed.

Remember, you are nominating a ONESHOT from these unending stories, NOT the story as a whole.

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AMERICAN DUO AWARD
The best story that focuses on or touches on Shawn and Gus' friendship, and/or accentuates their unique relationship.

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SBPD AWARD
The best story that focuses on or touches on our boys and girls in blue, our Santa Barbara Police Department force of Vick, Lassiter, Juliet, and even Buzz.

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HOW MANY HATS? AWARD
The best story featuring or touching on Henry and Shawn and their dysfunctional and flamboyant relationship.

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YOU ASTOUND ME AWARD
The best story featuring or touching on Lassiter and Shawn and their volatile friendship.

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BEST BAD GUY
The guy or girl you love to hate. What original character in which story struck you as the best of the bad?

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BEST BANTER
The funniest, the most touching, the weirdest, the most random, the most memorable dialogue from a story. This category is for overall banter in a story, not just snippits of conversation.

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BOO-BOO AWARD
The best use of smacking a character around. This is the most original or most memorable or the worst(in a good sense) way to hurt a character. Best whump, for those of you familiar with the phrase.

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BACK TO THE FUTURE AWARD
The most memorable use of the classic Psych flashback. What flashback really stuck with you in creativity and importance to the rest of the story?

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MOST WANTED WIP
What incomplete story do you want to see finished? This is a story that has been taking a VERY long time to be written. The wait is LONG between updates or the updates have suddenly stopped, leaving the story in hiatus. Maybe an award will get the author's creative juices going?

NOTE: Stories nominated in the previous awards that are still not complete are NOT eligible this year. Nominated stories canNOT be completed until the conclusion of the awards. If a nomination is completed, it will be taken out of the running.

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