Wild Heart Zine

For those of you who don't know, I'm active in the KiScon community. For each KiScon event, we nominate multiple different types of work pertaining to the Kirk/Spock ship and we cast our votes on September 10th. Winners are announced on the respective dates of the Cons.

For more information:

Philon Awards 2024

Philon Awards History

(in alphabetical order of the title; shortlist based on the results of the nominations phase)

Short fic (word count under 10K):

And Filled With Tomorrows by Android_And_Ale

A Perfect Fit by ThereBeWhalesHere

Cherubim by vanilla_extract

Engineering a Fantasy by CampySpaceSlime

Fly Over My Grave Again by gunstreet

Harrekh t'Harrekhi by CampySpaceSlime

How to Win Plants and Influence Lizards by indeedcaptain

Seeing, Unseeing by Jenna Hilary Sinclair (JennaHilary)

The Mess Hall Incident (or why Bones really wants to eat his salad alone, thank you) by discorporating

The Sight of a Touch, or the Scent of a Sound by Moreta1848

Long fic (word count 10K-50K):

All Things Fall and Are Built Again by spaceisgay (ChancellorGriffin)

DESK JOBS by WerewolvesAreReal

How Do I Know He's Mine by HDDrabble

Hurt by ThereBeWhalesHere

Please Don't Take Him Just Because You Can by spaceisgay (ChancellorGriffin)

Space age country girl, stone cold miracle by thembonesthembones

the fine print, and other things james t. kirk doesn't read by onlyafterhours

the yeomen of the garden (and laundry) by cicak

Way from Within by gunstreet

Novella/novel (word count over 50K):

Bodyguard by BurningAmber

Grief as a four-dimensional figure by Moreta1848

I Shall Do Neither by onwhatcaptain

It's Not An Illusion by Borealisblue

mol-kur by uhuraprime

Quell the Cosmic Tides by Plus3Charisma

Regulatory Relations by indeedcaptain

The Exiles by Moreta1848

The rebel and the nerd by Moreta1848

The recitation of names by Moreta1848

Podfic:

Blood Fever (written by T'Lara) by 1lostone

I must confess (written by USS_Queertastic) by 1lostone

milk and honey (written by spaceisgay) by foundbyjohndoe

milk and honey (written by spaceisgay) by cookiemom6067

The 1,000 Hour Sleep (written by spqr) by cookiemom6067

Traditional art:

Alright mr Spock by knezidon

kiss by vanilla-phantoms

Parading with Pride by Purple_Enma

Spock's Tattoo by SButler (Shelley Butler)

Tender Hands by Purple_Enma (Tumblr post)

The Ritual by Purple_Enma (Tumblr post)

Digital art:

(untitled Spock nude) by spirk-my-love (Florian Gray)

By the Fireplace by lorvee

Captains' Gambit (comic) by lorvee (Tumblr post)

Commission for BurningAmber's fic "Bodyguard" by asyncamestel

Harrekh t'Harrekhi by Purple_Enma (Tumblr post)

Mess by eldar_of_zemlya

Morning Sex by nightcrawler1

TALKING TO GHOSTS by emilinqa

Vulcan's Forge by CelestialVoyeur (Tumblr post)

Poetry:

all of me, unguarded by indeedcaptain

blanket me by USS_Queertastic (BoldlyQueertastic)

Shared Space by CelestialVoyeur (poem is chapter 6 in a collection of poems)

The Curious Case of Captain Kirk by CelestialVoyeur (poem is chapter 5 in a collection of poems)

to have and to hold by CateAdams

Zines:

KiScon 2023 Official Zine (editor: 1lostone) (download link)

Wild Heart – A NSFW AOS Spirk zine (editors: borbtrek, remylebae, nicbutnasty) (download link)

You can also see the shortlist on this Google spreadsheet. Make a copy to have your own spreadsheet to keep track of what you've already read and how you liked it.

You can find detailed information and all the rules also here on the KiScon website.

Voting is open from 10 September to 27 October, 2024 (11:59 p.m. PDT). You do not need to be a registered KiScon member in order to vote; voting is open to every K/S fan.

In each category there will be a Gold (first place) and a Silver (second place) winner.

The winners will be announced during KiScon 2024. Each winner will receive a certificate and a small prize; we will contact the winners after the convention weekend.

In each category you can pick one work.

After last year's successful relaunch of this beautiful celebration of fannish creativity, KiScon is honoured to once again host the Philon Awards. 

There are 8 categories: Short fic (word count under 10K) Long fic (word count 10K-50K) Novella/novel (word count over 50K) Podfic Traditional Art Digital Art Poetry Zines For each category the voters will determine a Gold (first place) and a Silver (second place) winner. Nominations for this year's Philon Awards are open now through August 31st.

You can nominate up to 3 works per category.

The work must focus on the pairing Kirk/Spock or Kirk & Spock. Slash (romantic and/or sexual relationship) and gen (friendship) are equally eligible. If a fic includes Kirk and/or Spock in relationships with other characters, be they canonical or original, this does not disqualify the work for the Philon Awards, as long as the focus is clearly on Kirk and Spock's relationship.

Art must feature Kirk or Spock or both of them; additional characters in the artwork are allowed, but no depiction of Kirk/Other or Spock/Other.

The work must have been created and published (print or online) after last year's nomination period. So everything from 1 September 2023 onwards until the end of the current nomination phase (31 August 2024) is eligible. Reprints or uploads of earlier works (e.g. a fic you wrote and published a few years ago and uploaded to the AO3 only recently) cannot take part in this contest. If a multi-chapter fic was started earlier, but the date of completion falls within the eligible range, then it can also be nominated.

Let us know down in the poll below if you'd be interested, as either a participant or enjoyer! <3

Wild Heart is OUT NOW!

Wild Heart is a free, digital-only, NSFW zine focusing on AOS (kelvinverse) spirk! Download the zine over on itch.io and enjoy the beautiful illustrations and fics done by our talented contributors!

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Star Trek: Alternate Original Series (Movies), Star Trek Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: James T. Kirk/Spock Characters: Spock (Star Trek), James T. Kirk Additional Tags: Academy Era, First Meetings, Sex first feelings later, Jim is totally not dating Spock he’s just…, Lovers to boyfriends, written for AOS spirk Wild Heart zine, Top Spock (Star Trek), Bottom Jim, McCoy makes a cameo, Pike’s office may be ruined after this, Spock’s office certainly is, Getting Together Series: Part 6 of Spirk oneshots

Summary:

Pike introduces Jim to Spock.

Spock introduces Jim to his bed.

Jim really should have seen it coming.

Wild Heart is OUT NOW!

Wild Heart is a free, digital-only, NSFW zine focusing on AOS (kelvinverse) spirk! Download the zine over on itch.io and enjoy the beautiful illustrations and fics done by our talented contributors!

So excited to finally be able to share my piece for @wildheartzine, a free NSFW AOS Spirk digital zine! Here's Jim and Spock indulging in a fantasy in the captain's chair.

Pentel fude pigment brush pen, watercolour, and white ink on hot pressed paper, A5 size

Full (E rated) image HERE or on AO3

Summary:

They locked eyes. Spock began to approach, and Jim straightened, placing his glass on the bar behind him. Spock looked fantastic; Jim realized he’d never seen Spock in civilian clothes before. It was a strange though not unwelcome sight. Spock wore a sleeveless black shirt with a high collar and low-rise black pants, and a sliver of stomach stuck out between the two. As Spock got closer, Jim realized that Spock’s stomach was covered in thatches of dark, wiry hair. Jesus. Following the conflict with Nero, Jim unexpectedly runs into Spock at a club. Written for the Wild Heart zine!

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