The Scriptorium Summer Writing Competition is here!

[Hader]

Scriptorium - Summer 2012 Writing Competition
VOTING PERIOD COMING SOON!

The Scriptorium is proud to bring you the Summer 2012 Writing Competition. Also, it's BYOB. No freebies. Or Booby will eat your face off.

This competition will have non-themed categories to encompass all tastes in writing. It's a freestyle competition, with the only rules being that you submit to one of the four categories: Long Fiction (greater than 1000 words), Short Fiction (500-1000 words), Non-Fiction (greater than 500 words), or Poetry (any form of poetry, though we prefer you keep them short).

Submission time begins now, and will last throughout the month of August , ending on September 1st. Voting will begin within a week after submissions are closed.

Only 4 medals are up for grabs. One gold, one silver, and one bronze, plus the Librarian's Choice award. The top placing entries in each category will move on to a final round of voting to decide medal winners. Runner-up and second runner-up in each category will receive rep rewards, 50 for runner-ups and 25 for second runner-ups. Assuming adequate entries to each category, only 3 out of the 5 will win a medal. Fourth place in the finals will be given 75 rep.

There is no theme for this competition, as we reserve that themed category as the specialty of the winter competitions.

Anyone may enter, but only one submission per category per member is allowed. However, each member is allowed only one award no matter what, so if more than one of your submissions makes it to the finals, only the one with the highest amount of votes will qualify.

Sign up now, before they take the hobbits to...wait for it...Gryffindor.

Competition Rules

Categories:

• Fiction (1000+ words)
• Short Fiction (500-1000 words)
• Nonfiction (500+ words on History, Religion, Morality, etc.)
• Poetry (any form of poetry, though we prefer you keep them short)

Submission deadline: The last day for submitting your entries is September 1st, 2012.

The librarians are split up into a few teams to handle each category. You are free to submit your entry to any librarian, but it would be quite dandy if you could submit it to any librarian overseeing the category you are submitting to.

Non-Fiction: Nyxos, Hader
Short Fiction:Princess Luna, SonofPeverel
Long Fiction: StealthFox, Påsan
Poetry: Gen. Chris, Hader, Påsan

NO MORE THAN ONE ENTRY PER MEMBER IN EACH CATEGORY. MEMBERS MAY WIN ONE MEDAL ONLY. IN THE EVENT THEY WIN MULTIPLE MEDALS, ONLY THEIR ENTRY WITH THE HIGHEST OVERALL VOTES WILL RECEIVE A MEDAL, AND THEIR OTHER SUBMISSIONS WILL NOT QUALIFY FOR ANY EQUAL OR LESSER MEDAL. Librarians shall clerically administer the competition. Librarians shall not be voting on medals except on the "Librarian's Choice" medal, which is a private poll and will be announced in the end with the rest of the awards. A public poll shall be created and the general membership shall select a medal winner among the submissions for each category.

Submissions for this competition must be unique works written specifically for this competition, or otherwise not posted on TWC in the past. Anonymity of entry's authors must be upheld for the duration of the competition. Do not in any way ruin your own or any other author's anonymity, as this affects the voting process unfairly.

Anyone caught asking for votes during the voting phase in any way, shape or form, on or off this forum, will have their submission immediately disqualified from the competition. In the event this does happen, I can personally guarantee you that you will not know of your entry's disqualification until after voting. This will leave you thinking you were able to sneakily lobby for votes behind my back, and just when you think you've got it, I will slap you hard with my pimp cane. So please ladies and gentlemen, don't pull any crap like this on me, I will see it coming and I will embarrass you for it. Don't say you haven't been warned.

Awards

Awards for the winners:

Medallions shall be decided by the general membership.
Reputation shall be decided by the Chief Librarian. As it stands, 50 rep for non-medal winning runner-ups and 25 for non-medal winning second runner-ups.

Librarian's Choice Award:

The winner of this award shall be decided by Librarian popular vote.

The award polling will begin after the submissions deadline and polling will be closed after roughly two weeks. Finalist voting will stay open for roughly 10 days. Winners will be announced within the days of the polling coming to a close.

The Chief Librarian is solely responsible for all aspects of the competition. The decisions of the Chief Librarian is final.

The Librarians will at their discretion include entries into the Scriptorium. Submission to the Contest does not assure the article will be archived in the Scriptorium.

In case you have any queries, feel free to Private Message a librarian, or post your question here.

[Confederate Jeb]

So uh...do we sign up in this thread?

[StealthFox]

You don't need to sign up. Just submit your entry to one of the librarians. (preferably one assigned to the category you're entering)

[lolIsuck]

You pm your entry to one of the judging librarians.

[Heiro de Bodemloze]

Let's go then. Going for something golden like this time... .

[Mhaedros]

So...do I still count as a librarian?

[Boustrophedon]

Interesting stuff Tempted to join the fray and write soem short fiction...

[Maurits]

Ooh.. the Scriptorium Writing Competition!

I'm very tempted to join, but then there's a subject to decide on. And an AAR which should be updated regularly. Still, this is the mother of all writing competitions. Unless I get a serious, month-lasting writers' block I'm in!

EDIT: Submission finished! Am I allowed to include three pics?

[Hader]

Pictures are fine.

[GERULA666]

accepted from other languages​​?
definitely not for me at my English....

[Diglytron]

So hey, I could write about anything I like or has it to be a ''story''. I would like just to write an political article or an article about games. Is that possible?

[lolIsuck]

There's a nonfiction category too Digly, is reading long posts forbidden in the glorious Frisia?

[Diglytron]

There's a nonfiction category too Digly, is reading long posts forbidden in the glorious Frisia?

Nein Hermanz, I did read it. Tough, Non-fiction could also just means a non-fiction story which is still a story and not an news/background article. Thanks tough, I shall give it an try.

[☩Lord Inquisitor Derpy Hooves☩]

Been writing my Long fiction for a while. On the 20th, I'll be writing my short fiction.

[StealthFox]

One week left to send in your submissions!

[Lуra]

Better start writing ^^;

~Lyra

[Hader]

I expect an entry from every active member within the next 48 hours. Exterminatus shall ensue if this quota is not met.

[☩Lord Inquisitor Derpy Hooves☩]

I expect an entry from every active member within the next 48 hours. Exterminatus shall ensue if this quota is not met.

Do not worry Inquisitor Hader, I have overseen the quota fulfillment in the Carphalus System. Adept Vatterholm can attest to this.

[Diglytron]

I send my article to hader and nyxos! Spend lots of time in it and hope you will enjoy!

[Diamat]

I'm looking forward to reading ya'll's stories. I only hope that this time there were enough entries to the non-fiction category, unlike last time.