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December 2024
Change A Life
Results! Everyone is standing around and wondering who won....
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We had many great Entries and to me, they are all winners! However, I have the unenviable task to narrow down our top prizes. Our prize structure was set up as 1 x $200, 2 x $150, and 16 x $100 USD paypalled. So let us begin with our 16 Third Place winners! This is gonna be a doozy:
The Following authors are hereby awarded Third place prize of $100 each! Let us give them a huge cheer for all of their prestigious efforts! Holly Snow One Dress |
| Now onto our Second place winners! Coming in at a strong second is none other than our author Bronwen Welsh with her story entitled A Tale of Three Schoolfriends!
Bronwen Welsh A Tale of Three Schoolfriends Enemyoffun I Guess I'm A Christmas Date Both of you have won the second place prize of $150 each! Congratulations you two! |
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Emma Anne Tate Who Makes Intercession? A big round of applause for Emma who won the main Prize of $200! Way to go! |
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The winners will need to pm Sephrena with their Paypal account names to transfer their prize awards to. These awards will be paid out on January 3rd of 2025. So Please get me the accounts to paypal them to asap.
You thought we were done didn't you? OH BUT NO WE ARE NOT! We have more awards to hand out! Surprise! All the remaining entries are hereby awarded $50 ea JUST FOR HAVING ENTERED my last contest! We had way too many entries for me to award them at the exact same time as the main winners, but these will be paypalled out February 3, 2025. Our runnerups who won $50 each: Runnerups! Bru Death in Venice Beach |
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Comments
Thanks for running the contest!
It was fun to participate in, and it seems like the community really enjoyed all the entries.
*hugs*
Melanie E.
Thanks for all the hard work
And for everything else you’ve contributed to making this site such a joy!
Gillian Cairns
thanks for all your hard work
and give my winnings to the hatbox
As always
My thanks to you, dear heart.
Love, Andrea Lena
My goodness!
I have really been struggling to write, this past year, and especially these past few months. I had to trick myself into writing Who Makes Intercession by promising Sephrena that I would post something for the contest. And it was hard to write, especially at first. Eventually the characters started speaking to me, and it got easier, but that took an inordinate amount of time. I am truly grateful that the end result was something that connected with people in our community.
There are some really wonderful gems in the contest stories, and I hope folks are able to squeeze in the time to read them all. There was a great mix of serious and entertaining, with stories that made me laugh, stories that made me cry, and stories that made me think. Most of all, given the theme, they were uplifting, and I needed that. Bronwen’s Tale of Three Schoolfriends and Enemyoffun’s I guess I’m a Christmas Date were particularly good, and their prizes are very well deserved. Please, please, please, if you haven’t already, give them a read — you’ll be glad you did!
Thank you for all of your hard work on this contest and others, Sephrena. Running contests isn’t fun, but you kept coming back and doing more. Please give my prize money to BC, with all my love.
Emma
Thank you!
Thank you so much for all your hard work and generosity on this, and everything else you do for the site! And of course thanks also to everyone who entered, and congratulations all around...it's well deserved! I was sorry I couldn't submit an entry for this, but life got in the way as it does, and I was already pushing to get a story out by Christmas. But I'm delighted to see that this was such a big success!
You should have tagged it!
Jenny, thinking about it, you should have tagged Charade for the contest -- it was all about changing lives!
Emma
It was on my mind...
Y'know, I thought about it, because at its heart the story is about new perspectives and second chances. But I ultimately decided against it since it felt funny posting a story for the contest that I'd been working on anyway. And I felt like I'd be skating around the rules since none of the characters were overtly LGBT (at least, not in the way I interpreted the spirit of the contest, once you removed all the fantastical elements). There was a lot of metaphor for that, but it seemed like kind of a stretch. So, I figured it'd just be another fun story to drop on people while they were enjoying the contest entries. :)