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Dec. 22—While sifting through nearly 350 entries in this year's Pasatiempo Writing Contest, one thing became clear: Santa Fe — and New Mexico — fosters a strong community of writers. Based ...
Although a considerable amount of caption contests are now on Internet, caption contests in printed media still exist and are quite popular. A very popular and prominent is a weekly caption contest published in American magazine The New Yorker. [9] The contest first appeared in 1998 and has been published regularly in each issue since 2005. [10]
Contests have also been run on various other Wikimedia projects, generally eliciting excitement and support; the Wikinews writing contest in March/April and the second German writing contest (part of the International writing contest) both attracted over 10 unusual prizes from the community to hand out to the lucky/skillful winners.
According to the official rules, the prize for winning the contest was "a pittance". [2] The 2008 winner received $250, [3] while the 2014 winners' page said the grand prize winner received "about $150". [4] In 2023, the prize was "a cheap certificate and bragging rights". [5]
The contest has been on hold since 2005 while it seeks a new corporate sponsor. [ 1 ] The objective of the contest is to create the best entry to parody William Faulkner's uniquely artistic style of writing, his themes, his plots, or his characters, in a short-short story of 500 words or fewer.
The International Imitation Hemingway Competition, also known as the Bad Hemingway Contest, was an annual writing competition begun in Century City, California.Started in 1977 as a "promotional gag", [1] and held for nearly thirty years, the contest pays mock homage to Ernest Hemingway by encouraging authors to submit a 'really good page of really bad Hemingway' in a Hemingway-esque style.
The BBC National Short Story Award (known as the National Short Story Award in 2006 and 2007) is an annual short story contest in the United Kingdom which is open to UK residents and nationals. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It has been described as "one of the most prestigious [awards] for a single short story" [ 3 ] and the richest prize in the world for a ...
Following is the "Report from Week X," where X = [this week's contest number] - 4, the result of the four weeks between when a contest is first shown and the winners are announced. These results begin with commentary by The Empress on the results, entries that were too common to publish, funny but un-printable entries, and anything else of note.