Here is the first batch of special categories entries. More will be posted progressively as the participants' and judges' spots close.

Participants, follow your judge. Check if there is something wrong with the usernames or the information provided.

Judges, you may begin judging. Deadline for judging: 17 October

Check and follow the judging criteria we will send you. Send the results via your chosen method by the deadline.

Best Blurb 

Judge: Sohinigoswami

1. Strawberry1d The Smirk of an Oracle

2. Pulchra_Aurum The Celebrity Slaughter

3. ajroker Lost Love = Misery Growing

4. SeraDrake Morsels

5. Seong_Grace Best Of Me

Judge: FaeHanna_05

1. Kikibtsstan Mystical Mutant

2. Mariyakim14 Fictional Obsession

3. Aravis-Brightspell A Memory of Starfires

4. Aravis-Brightspell The Gathering Dark

5. Aang151Rron JUST BREATHE VOLUME 1

6. Aang151Rron JUST BREATHE VOLUME 2

Judge: SSears90

1. 7Bibliophile3 Champagne Life

2. new_erasktaylor Cataract Of Delusion

3. LORAINEJD Cases Uncovered (Book 1)

4. Rifa_Fathma_ A Mazed Heart

5. lamparkA Trust and Deception

Best opening line 

Judge: kreads01

1. Pulchra_Aurum Beyond Bloodline: Unbreakable Bonds

2. ajroker Lost Love = Misery Growing

3. SeraDrake Morsels

4. Aravis-Brightspell The Gathering Dark

5. Aang151Rron JUST BREATHE VOLUME 1

6. Aang151Rron JUST BREATHE VOLUME 2

Judge: Sohinigoswami

1. new_erasktaylor Cataract Of Delusion

2. Rifa_Fathma_ A Mazed Heart

3. IrenicJ_stories Shadows Within

4. arrally The Therapist

5. FHLevin Shadow and Steel

6. JoelleSC Dinosaurs Don't Dance

Best Protagonist Name 

Judge: avian_Muslimah

1. Strawberry1d Luna in The Smirk of an Oracle

2. Dark_Ghostie Charlene in The Race for His Heart

3. Kikibtsstan Asher in On The Run

4. author_rosalin (check the him and her chapters) in the burning desires

5. Mariyakim14 Cha Na-ra in Fictional Obsession

6. Aravis-Brightspell Taren Leinier in A Memory of Starfires

7. n0te2self Lux in Princess Of A Painted Prison

8. new_erasktaylor Evelyn Taylor and Olivia Snyder in Cataract Of Delusion

9. EnchantedBlueberry Avantika Khanna in The Lost Boy of Blackthorn: Echoes of the Missing

10. BloodRiver876 Mohini, Rudra in Love of Evil and Cursed-The Tormented

11. FHLevin Kira Vance in Shadow and Steel

12. slayyer777 Lucifer in Villains are made