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February 2, 2008 - Voting is now closed. FYI, the site will be down February 8th, but should be back up and running by the time that winners are announced on the 10th.

December 2, 2007 - Nominations are closed and Voting is open! Due to the holidays and the dates of my other awards site (Willowy Goodness Awards), voting will go for TWO months this round.

October 1, 2007 - Nominations for Round 13 are officially open! We also have a new Affiliate: Buffy's Realm. Check it out on the Affiliates page.

September 7, 2007 - We have a new Affiliate: The Big Bad Awards. Check it out on the Affiliates page.

August 31, 2007 - Winners have been announced! I'm taking a month off between rounds so that I don't end up overlapping too much when I kick off the Willowy Goodness Awards in January. Nominations will open again here at the beginning of October. Have a great September everyone!

July 28, 2007 - Voting is now open! Sorry for the slight delay, but LJ was down on the only night that I had free to work on the site this past week.

July 24, 2007 - Nominations are now closed. Live Journal is down right now, so as soon as it comes back up and I can check the links of last minute nominations, those will be posted and voting will start shortly afterwards.

June 3, 2007 - We have a new Affiliate: Willow and Tara: A Fanfiction Website. Go check it out!

May 23, 2007 - The Winners from Round 11 have been posted. Nominations are now open for Round 12. I have also updated links on the Affiliates page.

May 13, 2007 - Voting is now over. Winners will be announced next weekend.

April 12, 2007 - Nominations are now closed and Voting has begun.

February 16, 2007 - Winners are now up! Nominations are also open for Round 11. I have also gone through our Affiliates page and removed any links to sites no longer in operation. If I removed your link in error, please let me know.

February 11, 2007 - Due to RL being crazy, winners won't be announced until February 16th. We had the most votes this round than of any previous ones and I gave myself less time to tally everything than usual. Go figure. Thank you for your patience.

February 6, 2007 - Voting is now closed. The Dates have been posted for the next round on the Rules & Dates page.

January 14, 2007 - We have a new Affiliate: Slayers Time Fanfiction Awards is a Buffy/Faith awards site. Go check it out!

January 6, 2007 - Voting is now open! You'll notice that some categories that had more than 8 Spuffy stories were broken into two groups: Spuffy and everything else.

January 5, 2007 - Nominations are now over. Voting will begin tomorrow.

January 1, 2007 - We have a new Affiliate: The Forbidden Awards (on Live Journal). Go check it out!

December 18, 2006 - We have a new Affiliate: I Am You Know Awards is a Willow/Tara shipper site opening on Jan. 1st. Go check it out!

December 7, 2006 - We have a new Affiliate: The Crossing Over Awards. Go check it out!

November 4, 2006 - The winners of Round 9 can now be found on the Winners page. Nominations for Round 10 are now open. Once again, I will request that you please read the rules and category descriptions before submitting your nomination forms. It'll save everyone a headache if you do.

October 26, 2006 - Voting is officially closed. Winners will be up in a little over a week.

October 7, 2006 - We have a new Affiliate: Burst into Flame Fan Fiction Awards. Go check it out!

September 24, 2006 - Nominations are now closed and Voting has begun.

August 22, 2006 - We have a new Affiliate: The Mystic Muse. Go check it out!

July 30, 2006 - We have two new Affiliates: Xanfan's fanfiction website & The Crossroads of Fan Fiction. Go check them out.

July 24, 2006 - Nominations are now open! Go nominate your favorite authors, stories, betas and websites! Just make sure to read the rules first.

July 16, 2006 - The Winners have been posted. Go check them out! Round 9 will begin when I get back from WriterCon on July 24th.

July 9, 2006 - Voting is now closed. Winners will be announced July 16th.

June 9, 2006 - Voting is officially now open!

June 8, 2006 - Nominations are now closed! Voting will be open soon.

May 27, 2006 - I am excited to announce that the SunnyD Awards have been nominated at the Shades of Grey Awards for Favorite Site. Also, don't forget that nominations close here on June 8th.

April 8, 2006 - Nominations are now open for Round 8! I have tried to clarify the category descriptions, so please make sure that you read them, and the Rules, before nominating. Thank you.

March 4, 2006 - The Winners for Round 7 are up! The Affiliates page has been updated - links updated and sites that haven't been updated in over a year have been removed. We'll be taking a month off before the next round. Nominations will begin on April 8th.

February 22, 2006 - Voting is now over. Winners will hopefully be announced on March 4th.

January 21, 2006 - Nominations are now closed. The voting form will be up shortly.

January 17, 2006 - New Affiliate: Wiffy Dreamverse. Check them out on the Affiliates page. Also, don't forget that nominations close on January 21st.

January 8, 2006 - I am happy to announce that we have two new affiliates: Serenity on the Hellmouth Awards and Best of ... Awards. Please go to the Affiliates page to check them out.

December 23, 2005 - We have had so many Willow/Buffy nominations this round, that I have taken a page from the Shades of Grey Awards' page and created sub-categories for those categories that had an abundance of Wiffy nominations.

December 11, 2005 - PLEASE check the Categories page to see the clarification for what an Alternate Universe fic is.

November 26, 2005 - A clarification to the Best Series category has been added to the Categories page. We thought that we should clarify that we consider a Series to be several stories that are connected, not a multi-chapter story.

November 20, 2005 - The site has moved, hopefully for the last time. No more Geocities bandwidth issues! I've updated the affiliates page, fixing links and removing links for sites that have disappeared. Winners from Round 6 are up and Nominations for Round 7 are open.

November 6, 2005 - The SunnyD Awards are happy to be listed at BTVS Awards Central. You can check out awards sites' current status at their website and/or live journal . Don't forget, voting closes one week from today. So if you haven't voted yet, get to it.

October 2, 2005 - Nominations are now closed and voting is officially open. If you haven't read these great stories, go do so now and then cast your votes by November 20th. Just make sure you know the rules before you do so.

September 19, 2005 - Don't forget that nominations close on October 1st!

August 7, 2005 - IMPORTANT CHANGE TO NOMINATION FORM! From now on, when you nominate someone for the Best Beta category, you must provide the name of the author that they beta for in the space provided. In other news, the nominee buttons have been reposted, some characters have different pictures, some have just been cleaned up, and there's a couple of new ones.

August 1, 2005 - The Winners for Round Five have been posted. Congratulations! While technically the next round begins tomorrow, the nomination form is ready to go.

July 31, 2005 - New Layout: Darla! And a gorgeous new banner made the wonderfully talented Wickedfox.

July 26, 2005 - Voting is now over for Round 5. Winners will hopefully be posted on August 1st, depending on how fast I can get the award plaques made. Also, the Dates have been posted for the next round.

June 25, 2005 - Nominations are now closed. Voting will begin tomorrow.

June 21, 2005 - New Affiliate: The Scene Stealers Awards

June 19, 2005 - New Affiliate: Angelic ButterCup Awards (ABC Awards)

June 15, 2005 - New Affiliate: Poisoned Bliss Awards , a multi-fandom video awards site. Reminder: Nominations close in 10 days.

May 27, 2005 - Due to some confusion with nominations, we have added a new Rule . Also, don't forget that there's just under a month left to nominate your favorite fics, authors, betas and websites.

May 2, 2005 - The SunnyD Awards are proud to announce that we are a member of The Court of Last Resort

April 27, 2005 - New Affiliates: Black Rose Awards and Step Away From My Xander

April 24, 2005 - Winners are now up! So is the nomination form for Round Five. So go check out who won, and then lets get the next round started! We had one carry-over nomination from the last round.

September 22, 2004 - Voting is now closed! Winners will be announced September 30th.

August 24, 2004 - New Affiliate: Two Hearts One Soul Awards, Lost Affiliate: Vampyre Haven is now a personal archive rather than a multi-author archive and no longer has affiliates.

August 22, 2004 - Reminder: One month left to vote! Voting closes September 22nd.

August 8, 2004 - The winners were announced at the Shades of Grey Awards and sadly we were not among them.

July 22, 2004 (Evening) - Due to problems with the voting form I have re-created it so that it no longer is being processed through Geocities. Hopefully this has resolved all problems. If anyone is still experiencing problems, please let me know. If you already voted you do NOT need to do so again, unless you think your vote did not go through. In which case, please note in the Name field that this is your second attempt.

July 22, 2004 - Voting is now Open! Go Vote for you favorite Authors, Stories and website.

April 17, 2005 - Voting for Round 4 is over. Winner will be announced March 24th.

April 11, 2005 - updated links on Affiliates page for The Potential Awards and the What You Deserve Awards. Dates posted for Round Five on the Rules & Dates page. Don't forget, voting closes on April 17th!

March 17, 2005 - Voting is officially open! Go Vote!

March 16, 2005 - Nominations are now closed! Voting will technically begin tomorrow. New Affiliate: Hairy Eyeball

January 26, 2005 - FYI, I (Elisabeth) will be on vacation through the end of the month. I'll update the site as soon as I can when I get back next week.

January 16, 2005 - Okay, all of the Winners plaques are now up on the site, sorry for the slight delay. Nominations are also open now for the new round. So, go Nominate your favorite stories, authors and sites. Also, one affiliate change: Holding My Hand Awards are now the Angel's Cookie Award .

January 15, 2005 - I'm a little behind schedule making the awards. I should have them up on the site tomorrow.

January 7, 2005 - Voting is now officially closed. Winners will be announced January 15th.

December 30, 2004 - New Affiliates: BODYHEAT Yahoo Group and Vampire Kisses Awards

December 29, 2004 - Dates for Round Four have been posted on the Rules & Dates page. Don't forget that Voting ends on January 6th! If you haven't Voted yet, go do it.

December 5, 2004 - Nominations are now Closed! Since the voting page is ready, I am opening voting tonight as well. Go Vote! But don't do it for yourself and only do it once. Also, please note that voting will only last for one month instead of two this round.

December 2, 2004 - Reminder: Only three days left for nominations! They will be closing on December 5th.

November 23, 2004 - New Affiliate: What You Deserve Awards
Reminder: Nominations close on December 5, 2004!!!

November 13, 2004 - New Affiliate: Holding My Hand Awards - Go check them out!

October 28, 2004 - Echo & Knightie's Runner Up awards for Best WIP have been posted. These were the last two that needed to be added. We apologize for the delay and thank you for your patience in getting them up.

October 18, 2004 - New Affiliates: Velvet Violence and Bittersweet are fic rec sites for Angel(us) and Spike respectively.
A new Rule has been added to the Rules & Dates page due to some questions we've received.

October 13, 2004 - Carrie and missmorganpryce's Runner Up awards for Best Plot, Jane Davitt's Runner Up award for Best Quickie Fic, Gail Christison's Runner Up award for Best Romance and D-Tepes Runner Up award for Best Song have been posted.

October 9, 2004 - I just added some new buttons to the codes page, including a couple for LJs.

October 5, 2004 - Nominations are officially open!!! Go nominate your favorite authors, stories and sites.
New Affiliate: Lisa's Fan Fiction

October 4, 2004 - Adele's award for Best Fluff Runner Up, Vatwoman's award for Best Pairing Conventional Runner Up and missmorganpryce's award for Best Pairing Unconventional Runner Up have been posted.
New Affiliate: GeekGirlz-R.Us

October 2, 2004 (evening) - missmorganpryce's award for Best Song and Carrie's award for Best WIP have been posted.

October 2, 2004 - FemaleoftheSpecies' award for Best Quickie and Kristi Allen & missmorganprice's awards for Best Romace have been posted.

October 1, 2004 (morning) - Okay, I'm an idot. I listed the Best Pairing UC as Best Plot winners and didn't even post those. It has now been fixed. I apologize and blame it on stress. Jennillu's award for Best Unconventional Pairing and Elen's award for Best Plot have been posted.

September 30, 2004 (evening) - Bastard Snow's award for Best Conventional Pairing has beed posted.

The new round will begin on October 5, 2004. (I know that the nomination form is already up, but I will not be posting nominations until after 10/5.) The two nominees that are already up were carried over, as promised, from the previous round. For those of you who had problems nominating in the last round, rest assured that I am now using a different form host, one that is actually reliable.

Category Changes for Round Three: We have deleted the Game Crossover categories as nothing has ever been nominated for them. We have also added a Slash category this round.

New Affiliate: White Knight Awards (for Xander-centric fic)

July 21, 2004 - Nominations are now Closed. Voting will begin tomorrow.

July 18, 2004 - New Affiliate: Souls in Peril. Reminder: Nominations close July 21st.

July 7, 2004 - New Affiliate: Willow's Angel

July 5, 2004 - New Affiliate: Fade to Black Awards

July 4, 2004 - Reader's Choice Voting is now opoen at the Shades of Grey Awards. Go vote for us for best New Site!

June 26, 2004 - Two new Affiliates: Poetry in Motion and Vampyre Haven. Reminder, Nominations are open until July 21st.

June 12, 2004 - Slight change to the way I'm gong to update from now on. Instead of always having to say "Nominees page has been updated", I'm just posting the date that I update the Nominees page above the News (in pink). You can also view Past Updates with the link below Buffy pic.

June 09, 2004 - Nominees page has been updated. New Rule has been added.

June 08, 2004 - Nominees page has been updated. The SunnyD Awards have been nominated at the Shades of Grey Awards!

June 05, 2004 - Nominees page has been updated.

June 01, 2004 - Nominees page has been updated. New Affiliates: Cruel & Unusual and The Dark Awards.

May 27, 2004 - Nominees page has been updated.

May 25, 2004 - New Nominee buttons on Codes page.

May 24, 2004 - Nominees page updated. New Rule added. Added Category: Best Pairing (Unconventional). New affiliates: of Demons & Destiny, Willow's DragonyDreams, Angel & Buffy Awards.

May 21, 2004 - The votes have been tallied and Winners can find their awards on the Winners page. Nominations are now open for Round Two! We have three new affiliates: Willow's Lil Secret, Bewitching Angel, and The Willowy Goodness Awards.

May 15, 2004 - Voting is now CLOSED! Winners will be announced May 21st.

May 13, 2004 - Two new Affiliates: Bodice Ripper Awards and The Potential Awards

May 11, 2004 - We now have an Affiliates page! The Shades of Grey Awards is our first Affiliate. If you are interested in being an Affiliate, please Email Me.

April 29, 2004 - New buttons have been added on the Codes page.

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