Welcome to our first ever Untold Stories Project contest! As we near the one-year anniversary of our debut on Twitch, we here at USP wanted to showcase the talented and amazing people in our community. Thank you so much for your support through this last year and we can’t wait to see all of your amazing entries. We are actually running two separate contests through the month of May and beginning of June: a short fiction contest and an art contest.
Short Story Contest:
Theme: Gaming (This can be a story about gamers, something set in the universe of a game world, a few thoughts from the perspective of a favorite personal player character, or a hilarious story from a con in written format, just as a few ideas.)
Format: ~1,500-2,000 word story (We aren’t going to run it through a word counter, but shoot for that range)
Prize: $25 (paid via PayPal) and an Untold Stories Project t-shirt (your choice of size and colors)
Art Contest:
Theme: Gaming (A portrait of a character, a landscape, a map, a prop or weapon replica, etc.)
Medium: Any, but it has to be delivered to us digitally, even if that means taking a picture of it and emailing it to us for judging.
Prize: $25 (paid via PayPal) and an Untold Stories Project t-shirt (your choice of size and colors)
How to Submit:
Please email your entries to uspcontest@gmail.com between now and June 4, 2021. Contest entries will be posted to this blog for the community to vote on their favorites.
Judging:
We have three members of the Untold Stories Project crew who will perform a blind review of each piece and that trio will select the winner in each category. We will also have a community favorite for both categories who will also win a piece of Untold Stories Project merchandise! (specific prize TBD, but we’ll try to make sure it’s cool)
Disclaimer:
By submitting your entry to us, you grant the Untold Stories Project the right to share your work across our platforms (including but not limited to this blog, our Twitch stream, social media, etc. but not including being sold as merchandise without separate arrangement with the creator.) All rights are reserved to the original creator of the work, which can be shared by the original creator anywhere else, once the contest is concluded.
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