SPINECHILLING WORDS CONTEST - ENTRIES CLOSED!Which means... in a few hours, depending on how fast/lazy/motivated I am, the winners will be announced. 8DD.
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IMPORTANTIf you have entered, please check if your entry has been added to my folder here! I think I have them all but I may have missed one. If your entry isn't in here, send me a note and tell me as soon as possible!
Somehow I think I've let the rule about gore slip to lax-ness as well, due to my being lazy and not bothering to disqualify people. However, that doesn't mean you can get away with smashing the guideline to pieces. 8D
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THEME: Horror
MEDIUM: Literature (both poetry and prose)
CLOSING DATE: 1st July 2009 (approximately)
RULES
The word limit is 2000Everything in the body of the deviation will be included in the word countIf your entry goes over the word count, I will tell you to edit it or enter something elseOne entry per deviantMust be your own original work, no stealing, etc.No fanfiction, no collaborationsNo extremely disturbing mature-content-containing entries; these will be rejected, so keep the mature content at a reasonable level. By this, I basically mean don't enter anything that would, if turned into a film, be given a restricted-to-18-years-of-age-and-over rating. This is still a tad bit flexible though, so if you're really keen to try a very gory/graphic piece, well... you could try your luck. If I decide that the content is too much, I'll tell you to enter something else.No entries that include an image. I’m focussing purely on the words here. Formatting (spaces, bold, italics, etc.) is acceptable. Preview images are okay, so long as they do not include pictures of any kind.Entries cannot have previously won another contest, or gotten a huge accolade like a DD, etc.Entries must have been submitted into your gallery on or between April 26th 2009 and 1st July 2009.I realise that some of these rules you’ll be able to bypass, but I’m trusting you to follow them. 8D
HOW TO ENTER
Send me a note with a link to your entry with “spinechilling words” as the subject.If you send me an entry any other way, I will ignore it. Well I won’t ignore it, I’ll delete it. Yeah.JUDGING
Entries will be judged on how good they are. So impress me. (:Yes, the judge is me. Oh noes.I will reject/disqualify any entry if it does blatantly flouts the rules/guidelines stated here. I will also veto any entry that does something really stupid that is not mentioned here but is nonetheless really stupid.Though this contest is open to both poetry and prose, all the entries will be judged as one category. I was going to split it into two categories and winners for each category, but I’ve since changed my mind. Now there’s just 1st, 2nd and 3rd for the whole thing.NOTES
When I say this is a horror contest, I do actually mean the type of 'horror' that you'd find in the horror section in a library... not horror as in so badly-written or sweet and fluffy that it's scary. Essentially, something that induces your body's natural fear instinct while you're reading it - or, it would induce fear instinct type reactions if it happened in real life.Just because I set the word limits at 1000 and 2000, does not mean you have to fill them up. Those are absolute maximum values.Because I don’t feel like being extremely strict… here’s the actual closing date situation: I’ll check my inbox on 3rd July 2009, and if there are any contest entries there, I will accept those. Anything after that, though, I definitely will not accept. Definitely. XDAnd now for prizes! Finally, I shut up and get to the prizes! W00T!
FIRST PLACE
3 month deviantART subscription from ~zefiraelRain1 watercolour painting from =Anjellyjoy1 custom stamp from =Anjellyjoy1 custom icon from =Anjellyjoy1 custom literature tag from =Anjellyjoy1 greyscale screentoned character drawn in manga style from ~3fukutaicho1 full colour visual artwork from ~zefiraelRain2 sketches from ~zefiraelRain2 poems from ~zefiraelRain1 prose piece from ~zefiraelRain6 detailed deviation critiques from ~artydude121 A5 watercolour scenery painting from ~artydude121 custom stamp from ~tiannangel1 custom icon from ~tiannangel1 custom literature tag from ~tiannangel1 picture from ~DevilishSeraph1 poem from ~DevilishSeraph1 poem from ~ScionOfLove1 week feature from =Krad-EelavJournal feature from ~3fukutaichoJournal feature from *Aedammair-FelineJournal feature from =AnjellyjoyJournal feature from ~artydude12Journal feature from ~bakadeshooJournal feature from ~blair25Journal feature from ~darkvampyressxJournal feature from ~shadowgriffenJournal feature from =TheLeavesOfMemoryJournal feature from ~tiannangelJournal feature from ~xEmoMuffinxJournal feature from ~zefiraelRain Entry will be displayed (on pretty paper, with your dA name and URL) on noticeboards of James Ruse Agricultural High School by ~mobydesu Feature in news articleSECOND PLACE
1 month deviantART subscription from =Anjellyjoy1 pencil/charcoal artwork from =Anjellyjoy1 custom icon or stamp from =Anjellyjoy1 custom literature tag from =Anjellyjoy1 black and white character drawn in manga style from ~3fukutaicho1 full colour visual artwork from ~zefiraelRain1 sketch from ~zefiraelRain2 poems from ~zefiraelRain1 prose piece from ~zefiraelRain4 detailed deviation critiques from ~artydude121 A5 watercolour scenery painting from ~artydude121 custom icon from ~tiannangel1 custom literature tag from ~tiannangel1 poem from ~DevilishSeraph1 poem from ~ScionOfLove1 week feature from =Krad-EelavJournal feature from ~3fukutaichoJournal feature from *Aedammair-FelineJournal feature from =AnjellyjoyJournal feature from ~artydude12Journal feature from ~bakadeshooJournal feature from ~blair25Journal feature from ~darkvampyressxJournal feature from ~shadowgriffenJournal feature from =TheLeavesOfMemoryJournal feature from ~tiannangelJournal feature from ~xEmoMuffinxJournal feature from ~zefiraelRain Entry will be displayed (on pretty paper, with your dA name and URL) on noticeboards of James Ruse Agricultural High School by ~mobydesu Feature in news articleTHIRD PLACE
1 custom icon or stamp from =Anjellyjoy1 custom literature tag from =Anjellyjoy1 full colour visual artwork from ~zefiraelRain1 sketch from ~zefiraelRain2 poems from ~zefiraelRain3 detailed deviation critiques from ~artydude121 A5.5 watercolour scenery painting from ~artydude121 custom icon from ~tiannangel1 poem from ~ScionOfLove1 week feature from =Krad-EelavJournal feature from ~3fukutaichoJournal feature from *Aedammair-FelineJournal feature from =AnjellyjoyJournal feature from ~artydude12Journal feature from ~bakadeshooJournal feature from ~blair25Journal feature from ~darkvampyressxJournal feature from ~shadowgriffenJournal feature from =TheLeavesOfMemoryJournal feature from ~tiannangelJournal feature from ~xEmoMuffinxJournal feature from ~zefiraelRain Entry will be displayed (on pretty paper, with your dA name and URL) on noticeboards of James Ruse Agricultural High School by ~mobydesu Feature in news article(By "full colour visual artwork" I mean a digital painting, vector or coloured drawing.)
All prizes will be distributed digitally.
Winners can also opt out of any prizes if they wish.
If you would like to donate a prize, send me a note. Prize donors may still enter the contest if they wish.
Also, I'd really appreciate it if you could spread news of this contest around like an infectious disease (:
E.g. in the deviation description, a link to this journal would be great.
ALSO IMPORTANT: All entries will be added to a folder in my faves called "Spinechilling Words entries" - if your entry has not been added, please tell me as soon as possible!
For updates, I suggest you watch me (so you won’t miss any journal edits or other announcements; I don’t care if you don’t watch my art XD) or check this journal for updates.
If you have any questions at all regarding this contest, I suggest you send me a note or comment on this journal. You can comment on the news article if you like (I will be checking it), but if you do that I won’t get a notification of it and there’s always the chance I’ll miss something.
So that’s it! Horror writing contest! You still have time, so get going! (:
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I'll try and enter it if I could, but I'm not sure if I'm great at horror writing...but still, let us hope there are greater writers out there who can truly spin a horror story!
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