Welcome to The Gem Awards, we're a Twific awards site that focuses on smaller stories, 300 reviews are less. We're kicking off the Opal Round. So Carlisle fics!

Remember they are ANON! So no telling people which story was yours!

A reminder that our challenges are a bit different than our rounds. We encourage all to enter, little known authors, big name authors, peeps who have never written before.

We highly encourage the use of a beta as we will be checking the entries for grammar, punctuation and flow. If your entry needs work we will give you the chance to make corrections and resubmit it.

The rules are simple.

Your entry must be Carlisle-centric, All Pairings will be acceptedYour word count minus the header must be at least 250 words, and can be no more than 1300 words.This is an anonymous dribble challenge, you will be disqualified if you tell peeps which entry is yours.Your not allowed to upload your story ANYWHERE until the winners have been announced.We will take as many entries you want to send us!

Use this header please.

Story Title:

Authors pen-name:

Author's email:

Summary:

Email your entires to gemawards@yahoo.com

Dates:

Submissions: Now until September 7th.

Voting: September 12th-16th

Announcing The Winner September 17th.