Entry Submission Dates are from March 15, 2015 until May 22, 2015.
Voting on the Submissions should tentatively occur between May 24, 2015 through May 31st, 2015(midnight Pacific Time),
with the Winner Announcements on June 1, 2015.
The Prizes are: 1st Place $100 x 2, 2nd Place $75 x 2, 3rd Place $50 x 2.
(prizes subject to increase with notice!)
(prizes subject to increase with notice!)
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The theme for this year's Summer Story Contest is A Getaway Vacation - from One's Self! The main character should be a closeted tglib (trans, gay, lesbian, intersexed, or bi) or potentially closeted tglib character. They are miserable with their every day life and want to break out from it and see if the other side is what they want. You can use the excuse of a Spring Break, Summer Vacation, Convention, or even a staying with a friend's family if the parent's of the main character (assuming they are an underage teen) go on their vacation and that lets the teen to have the chance to try their vacation out! Any other vacation / travel device the author wishes to come up with is acceptable as long as it is the vehicle to allow the character to carry out the switch. |
| The character must start dissatisfied and progress forward and try the switch to the gender they feel they should be. The character may or may not wish to make the switch permanent at the end of the vacation. That is up to each author.
That's it for the theme. ^^ |
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The story can use any plot device, any theme variation from romantic, to horror, to comedy, etc. and any time period or setting. Stories can be any length and chaptered. Stories must be brand new and never posted anywhere else on the Internet or published. Multiple submissions are allowed with only the top voted one submission of any author's total submissions to claim a prize. |
| Please remember to label your submissions on the ++Fiction page under the heading box of Contests and properly select Summer 2015 Summer Vacation Getaway! Story Contest on your Submission(s). ONLY 1 vote per person using ONLY 1 of their registered site accounts for voting. Vote on the Flagged Contest Stories during the voting period for the ones you like best! Multiple attempts to vote using additional accounts owned or created by that person will nullify their votes and have us pull out the paddle of punishment! |
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The 3 top stories will be awarded a prize designated as follows: 1st Place $100 x 2, 2nd Place $75 x 2, 3rd Place $50 x 2.* One of each prize will be voted on by the general site population with the second prize to be judged from the remaining entries by Erin and Sephrena.
*(prizes subject to increase with notice!)
The winners will need to pm Sephrena with their mailing address or paypal account to transfer their prize awards to.
All prizes will be mailed or transferred very soon after the winners announcement.
*(prizes subject to increase with notice!)
The winners will need to pm Sephrena with their mailing address or paypal account to transfer their prize awards to.
All prizes will be mailed or transferred very soon after the winners announcement.
So get your Laptops, PC's, Apples, Ipads, or Smartphones geared up and start writing! ^^
Sephrena Lynn Miller
BigCloset TopShelf
BigCloset TopShelf
Comments
Original Comments
Yippee!!!!
Submitted by Andrea Lena on Sun, 2015/03/08 - 3:28am
.... Double hooray!
Crying is all right in its own way while it lasts. But you have to stop sooner or later,
and then you still have to decide what to do. - C.S. Lewis
Love, Andrea Lena
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I don't often enter contests really...
Submitted by Rasufelle on Sun, 2015/03/08 - 6:03am
But I think I might do this one!
Melanie E.
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on it!
Submitted by souffle girl on Sun, 2015/03/08 - 9:38am
A break from my usual themes... let's try this!
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Yayness!
Submitted by Melange on Mon, 2015/03/09 - 6:42am
Oh! Funtimes!
Now to see if I can try a theme and/or setting I've not done before, just to see how far my imagination might reach :)
Hmm... I feel an idea percolating...
Starts jotting down notes
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The hamster wheels in my head...
Submitted by Ragtime Rachel on Tue, 2015/03/10 - 5:55pm
...are definitely turning. This is definitely one I want to participate in--I need that hundred dollars. The state cut my food stamps to the bone last fall, and I'm barely hanging on.
However, it would be easier if I had someone to bounce ideas off of (I promise they won't hurt too much. They're Nerf ideas).
Livin' A Ragtime Life,
Rachel
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Question
Submitted by DVH on Mon, 2015/03/16 - 10:04pm
Is this similar to Crystal (c.sprite) How I spent my summer vacation?
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Inspiration
Submitted by Jennifer Brock on Tue, 2015/03/17 - 10:20am
I have an idea for a concept, but no thoughts on what the actual plot of the story would be, and I don't know if I've got the time to research a setting.
So I'll share this piece of news I found in the hope that someone else can get a story out of it:
'Vacation Breasts' May Be Next Big Thing in Plastic Surgery(link is external)
The New York plastic surgeon who developed the "insta breast," a saline injection into the breast that gives the impression of implants for 24 hours, is now working on a method that would last two to three weeks.
Seems like an ideal piece of medical technology for this contest.
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Kindle
Submitted by Arina on Fri, 2015/04/17 - 2:12pm
I have tried to help out as best as I can by buying ebooks from authors that do post on the site. The layout for this site looks nice on the web, but for some reason when I view it from my Kindle it does not fit the screen at all. The adds cover up quite a bit of things when I try to keep it at the natural size of the screen. I use the Kindle Fire HD 8" before they changed where the power button is on the back of the Kindle. I hope something can be done to fix that cause I do most of my reading from it. I hate how the pics that get used with the story show being smaller then normal thumbnails, as well. I am sorry if your funds aren't that much like you hope them to be. I have tried various ways to get you some of the money when I can. I am unemployed and don't get very many chanes to even get gift cards so that I can buy ebooks in the first place let alone any that might be from authors from this site. Best of luck to you and I hope something can be done to help this site appear better on the Kindle Tablet that I use.
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Missed It
Submitted by Angela Rasch on Thu, 2015/05/28 - 11:03am
I'm only about 80% done with my Summer Contest Story.
That's 80% more done than I would have been without this contest.
Thank you for inspiration.
Angela Rasch (Jill M I)