Art Prompt Writing Contest #1: Results
My first writing contest attracted many great entries. The authors were asked to write an original piece of fiction of between 500 and 1000 words, using this painting by @yusaymon as inspiration.
The contest closed last night and I waited until then to sit down and read all the submissions. In judging I considered how much I felt the painting influenced the stories. Although by no means a technically adept writer myself, I also examined this aspect in the submissions. The length of the story was the final decider.
In choosing the winner for this contest, I went for the one that had the greatest impact on me. The story stayed with me and my thoughts kept coming back to it long afterwards. I found the final scene to be very powerful.
I am happy to announce that @lenadr wins!
The prize total consists of my original 10 SBD, the 5.325 SBD earned from my original announcement post, plus 3 SBD that @cristof generously donated. I have rounded this up to 20 SBD.
I did struggle over the decision so feel it fair to give honourable mentions to some of the other submissions.
All three mentions will receive 1 SBD each.
Prizes Sent
Thank you to everyone who took part. Having entered a writing contest myself recently, I understand all too well the disappointment of not winning. This was very hard to judge.
Please try again with my next writing contest. Look out for it next week.
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OMG thank you so much! I seriously never win anything, like ever. You've made my weekend. A million thank you's!!!
My pleasure.
The end of your story really touched me.
AMAZIIING!!
I was out of town, so missed the contest entirely, but wow! Congrats to @lenadr! Anxious to read the entry! A provocative painting, for sure. Looking forward to the next one.
Thank you!!
I was talking about this very idea with a fellow Steemian, @tattoodjay, just the other day! We had no idea how to start such a contest. I am so glad you are doing this and that you had such an excellent response. Keep On Steeming On! Upvoted & resteemed!
Thank you very much. It was fun and very hard to judge, I had lots of very good entries.
I will do another one next week.
I can only imagine how hard it would be to judge. I tend to get overly invested in such things. I look forward to next week's contest!
Very cool. Thank you for running the contest. It was fun to write for, and I anticipate entering in the future.
Congrats @lenadr. Not sure about you but that painting got me going. This was a fun contest and a great idea. @sandzat and @cristof glad to share the mentions with you both (humbled to share the mentions actually) Congrats to all the entries.
congratzz to everyone <3 keep participating and remember this newbie haha
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Beautiful Work I love this painting!
I certainly didn't envy you the judging job having read the entries myself. My congratulations to the winners and especially to everyone who worked hard writing a story and put themselves out there. If you did your best and are proud of what you wrote, you won regardless of your placing or lack of it.