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Post by RAVENEYE on Sept 2, 2022 11:11:38 GMT -6
LEGENDS CONTEST 2022
The results are in! The scores were so close, and everyone earned high marks this year. Well done and congratulations, everyone!
Nonfiction Division:
 1st Place - Bird for "The Dog"
Poetry Division:
1st Place - RAVENEYE for "The Wood Beam"
Fiction Division:
 2nd Place - RAVENEYE for "Nothing So Ordinary as a Beheading on a Tuesday"
PRIZESAll Participants: 100 Hard Honor Points, upon submitting an entry per division.
First Place:
 $10 gift certificate to Amazon or cash via PayPal
 250 Honor Points, for a total of 350
Publication in the Compendium (optional)
Second and Third Place:
150 Hard Honor Points, for a total of 250
Publication in the Compendium (optional)BADGESFiction: [img]https://i.ibb.co/hZnc8Qv/mundane-f1.png[/img] [img]https://i.ibb.co/chzyFpK/mundane-f2.png[/img] [img]https://i.ibb.co/mhx69YV/mundane-f3.png[/img]Poetry: [img]https://i.ibb.co/f2gHB0x/mundane-p1.png[/img] [img]https://i.ibb.co/4j6xnMx/mundane-p2.png[/img] [img]https://i.ibb.co/718TCcg/mundane-p3.png[/img]Nonfiction: [img]https://i.ibb.co/Q9vyNwW/mundane-n1.png[/img] [img]https://i.ibb.co/M5TB8wn/mundane-n2.png[/img]UPCOMING EVENTS:
September: The Compendium, 2022 Issue, released October: Halloween Contest, NaNoWriMo prep
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Post by FoxxGlove on Sept 2, 2022 11:18:44 GMT -6
I bet the placings were ridiculously close.
Nevermind....I just saw the comment that they were.
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Post by ScintillaMyntan on Sept 2, 2022 12:09:55 GMT -6
Congratulations. These were some good writing.
If anyone liked my fiction entry, go read Tales of Galicia by Andrzej Stasiuk. I was trying badly to emulate him. That book is amazingly written and very much in line with our prompt.
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Post by Caulder Melhaire on Sept 2, 2022 15:14:56 GMT -6
WOOHOO! Congrats to all our winners!
This was one of the highest scoring contests I think I've ever seen, and y'all deserved it. I'm happy to have ranked among all the awesomeness this year.
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Post by Bird on Sept 2, 2022 18:09:49 GMT -6
Congrats all!
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Post by RAVENEYE on Sept 3, 2022 11:15:09 GMT -6
Congratulations. These were some good writing. If anyone liked my fiction entry, go read Tales of Galicia by Andrzej Stasiuk. I was trying badly to emulate him. That book is amazingly written and very much in line with our prompt. Ah man, I went to add this to my wish list and saw that it's out of print. I'll keep an eye open for it though. |
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Post by ScintillaMyntan on Sept 3, 2022 11:35:47 GMT -6
Ah man, I went to add this to my wish list and saw that it's out of print. I'll keep an eye open for it though. I don't know if it'll ever come back, really. A few years ago I bought the last reasonably-priced used copy on Amazon. I first read it as a student at the university library. I really hope you find a way to read it. It's so good and influenced my writing a lot. |
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Post by RAVENEYE on Sept 3, 2022 15:55:38 GMT -6
Ah man, I went to add this to my wish list and saw that it's out of print. I'll keep an eye open for it though. I don't know if it'll ever come back, really. A few years ago I bought the last reasonably-priced used copy on Amazon. I first read it as a student at the university library. I really hope you find a way to read it. It's so good and influenced my writing a lot. It makes me so sad when good books vanish from publication. I mean, I get limited space, etc. but with today's ability to Print On Demand, it would be nice if out of print books were moved to that option. I'm all for POD departments at big publishers.  I'll even learn the programs to convert such books. Hire me, hire me! |
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Post by RAVENEYE on Sept 3, 2022 16:04:57 GMT -6
Holy moly, the badges make my sig look ... gaudy. Like, yikes. Bahahaha! Gonna rock 'em for a while, then go back to the simplicity of the promotion badge. (Actually, I don't think I'll be able to stand it for very long.)
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Post by havekrillwhaletravel on Sept 4, 2022 7:32:12 GMT -6
Congrats everyone! All the entries were so, so good.
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Post by ScintillaMyntan on Sept 4, 2022 8:47:55 GMT -6
It makes me so sad when good books vanish from publication. I mean, I get limited space, etc. but with today's ability to Print On Demand, it would be nice if out of print books were moved to that option. I'm all for POD departments at big publishers. I'll even learn the programs to convert such books. Hire me, hire me! If there's a way to petition a publisher into printing it again I so would. It's worth it. It's annoying this makes it hard for me to recommend people my favorite book.
Holy moly, the badges make my sig look ... gaudy. Like, yikes. Bahahaha! Gonna rock 'em for a while, then go back to the simplicity of the promotion badge. (Actually, I don't think I'll be able to stand it for very long.) It looks insulting. "MUNDANE RAVENEYE MUNDANE RAVENEYE MUNDANE RAVENEYE." |
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Post by RAVENEYE on Sept 4, 2022 12:27:25 GMT -6
It makes me so sad when good books vanish from publication. I mean, I get limited space, etc. but with today's ability to Print On Demand, it would be nice if out of print books were moved to that option. I'm all for POD departments at big publishers. I'll even learn the programs to convert such books. Hire me, hire me! If there's a way to petition a publisher into printing it again I so would. It's worth it. It's annoying this makes it hard for me to recommend people my favorite book.
Ooo, thanks for the link! Getting to read it as a pdf is way better than not getting to read it at all.  I hadn't looked at it that way until now. I'm dying I'm laughing so hard! |
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Post by Bird on Sept 9, 2022 12:17:28 GMT -6
It looks insulting. "MUNDANE RAVENEYE MUNDANE RAVENEYE MUNDANE RAVENEYE." I hadn't looked at it that way until now. I'm dying I'm laughing so hard! OMG, I can't unsee it now. LOL I looked at my own sig, and it reads: 'Dark Bird, Abandoned Bird, Mundane Bird'  |
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Post by RAVENEYE on Sept 12, 2022 10:33:55 GMT -6
I hadn't looked at it that way until now. I'm dying I'm laughing so hard! OMG, I can't unsee it now. LOL I looked at my own sig, and it reads: 'Dark Bird, Abandoned Bird, Mundane Bird'   That is hilarious!! Maybe we should pick some lighter themes in the future? But what would be the fun in that, eh?  |
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3rd Place - FoxxGlove for "Never Forget"
I'll even learn the programs to convert such books. Hire me, hire me! 
I hadn't looked at it that way until now. I'm dying I'm laughing so hard! 
That is hilarious!! Maybe we should pick some lighter themes in the future? 
You add them to your profile as you do them around the forum.
