Writing Tournament 2013 ~ Round I

Come one and come all, raise your pen take part in this grand literary battle! There are subscriptions, points, and more to be won! You all have until February 19th to enter.

The time is nigh for the Third Annual Writers--club Literature Tournament!

This is a tournament for all writers welcoming prose and poetry! It will be a grand competition spanning three rounds of literary challenge! First of all, you must be willing to write for each of the rounds over the coming months.

There will be judging at the end of each round and those who progress to the next round will have to write a new piece for the next round's theme. A new participants list with the surviving writers will be released upon the announcement of the new round.

To sign up, join the group as a member and add this blog entry to your favorites. From there, feel free to submit your entry to the Tournament Round 1 Folder.

Round I Theme:  Imminent Menace

Interpret at will.

Deadline: February 19th

We will accept participants and submissions for the first round until that date.

  Prizes!  

 First Place

Three Month dA Subscription
100 Points
Member of the Month feature at Writers--club
Commission from Christianonfire7
Poem or short story from BlazeJuliaNightfury
Feature at Live-Love-Write
Feature at xWritersUtopiax
Journal Feature from Christianonfire7

Second Place

150 Points
Member of the Month feature at Writers--club
Commission from Christianonfire7
Poem or short story from BlazeJuliaNightfury
Feature at Live-Love-Write
Feature at xWritersUtopiax
Journal Feature from Christianonfire7


Third Place

100 Points
Member of the Month feature at Writers--club
Commission from Christianonfire7
Poem or short story from BlazeJuliaNightfury
Feature at Live-Love-Write
Feature at xWritersUtopiax
Journal Feature from Christianonfire7

Honorable Mentions

20 Points
Poem or short story from BlazeJuliaNightfury
Feature at Writers--club
Feature at Live-Love-Write
Feature at xWritersUtopiax

Any other prize donations would be greatly appreciated!

Tournament Rules

The tournament will have three rounds, each with a separate prompt.
You must participate in the first round to take place in the future rounds.
Your submissions can be prose or poetry and you can make one submission per round.
You must submit your entry as a literature deviation, not a journal entry.
There is no minimum word length, even six word stories are acceptable. Prose entries should be kept under 7,000 words.
Your entry must be a new deviation.
 Please include the icon in your description. You just have to paste the following: :iconwriters--club:
This will be a battle of literary wit, but please be polite to your fellow competitors as a chivalrous knight would be.

Thanks go to the following for their contributions to the contest:


If you have any questions, feel free to ask!

Good luck to everyone! Be prepared for a grand writing tournament!