Toward the end of 2005, a few members of the MC Forum thought to try to set up some awards, to try to honour and acknowledge some of more excellent mind control story-writing of the past year, and to remind people of some of the great things they might have missed. To that end, an awards panel was established, with the aim of both creating and running this event.
The original members of this panel, based on their MC Forum/EMCSA writing pseudonyms, were: Darkmind, flibinite, Nab, Rinky Dink and Topaz172. All are quite active members on the MC Forum, and all but Nab are posted authors of MC erotica.
The Awards panel established some rules for nominations and voting, including limiting the nominated stories to only those actually completed in the preceding year, from any source site (mainly the Erotic Mind Control Story Archive and the MC Forum, itself, for the first Awards).
Also, seven award categories were decided upon — five 2005 story awards, using the colour-code designations from the EMCSA as a criterion, a Classic Story award, for ground-breaking stories written prior to 2005, and a special Achievement Award, to be given to any individual whose contributions to MC erotica goes above and beyond the call of all others.
In 2008, after a one year hiatus, the second Spiral Awards took place. On this occasion they concentrated entirely on the five colour-coded awards for stories that had been completed during 2007.
(The Spiral Awards has no other relation to the MC Forum other than that the members of the panel are active members of the forum.)
We of the panel hope that these awards will continue, and indeed expand upon, the original goal of recognizing and rewarding the very best in Erotic Mind Control literature.