Hello! Classic stories are those that were written a few years ago but are considered by readers to be must reads. Because these are older fics, they need to have been completed by December 31, 2009. For this year only (because we've shifted the schedule six months) new stories need to have been completed between July 1, 2010 and December 31, 2011 (a year-and-a-half instead of just a year).