BigCloset TopShelf's December 2016 Spirit of Giving Story Contest
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Prizes currently are 1 x $250, 1 x $150, and 12 x $100 USD paypalled or Amazon.com gift vouchered. Prizes subject to go up!
Admin Note: Samantha MD has assisted me in the forming of this contest and her help and ideas were crucial for it. ~Sephrena.
| The theme for this year's Christmas contest is the spirit of giving. This is where a selfless act of kindness is shown within the story either towards or from the main character. Either the main character or a secondary character needs to be trans, gay, lesbian, bi, or intersexed.
That's it. How you develop the story is entirely up to you. ^^ The story can use any plot device, any theme variation at all: from romantic, action, 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 submission with the most kudos of any author's total submissions to claim a prize. |
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Some possible ideas, in case people have writer's block can include: the giving of one's life, giving of an organ, standing in for someone else because of a situation, rescuing someone, a present someone dearly wanted, etc.
Some variations of theme can include various services of people not often written about: Fire and Rescue services, EMT, Police, Airlines, Military, Local Aid Organizations, Hospitals, College students, etc. Try to be different and creative. These are not the only ones, come up with your own! Music is always a good choice too :) |
When you write an entry, please tag it with this in the story teaser:
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to display your entry:
| Currently, I have set up the prize structure to 12 x $100 winners, and SamanthaMD is including 1 x $250, and 1 x $150 USD winners using either paypal to send or else an Amazon.com Gift voucher of $100 for the winners. We may be able to get an additional prize or two depending on what happens between now and Christmas. The winners will be the stories with the most kudos!
The reason for the change of prize setup this year is that I wanted to try something different that was more inclusive for everyone. |
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The winners will need to pm Sephrena with their paypal account names to transfer their prize awards to or else email address for the gift voucher option. All prizes will be transferred very soon after the winners announcement. |
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BigCloset TopShelf's December 2016 Spirit of Giving Contest Results!
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December 2016
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Admin Note: Due to the large number of entries which exceeded my expectations, I need to break the contest submissions off now. The reason for this will be explained below. If there is a submission you had ready today and were going to post, please pm me.~Sephrena.
In the Spirit of Giving, I was not going to run this like a usual contest. I fully intended to be able to pay ALL ENTRANTS a prize. That was my giving to our authors. I did not want to prioritize whose story was longer or who really had the most kudos - though that was along the lines when I first tried to think up how to manage this contest. I did leave a clue in a comment on the contest page that I would try my best to pay everyone who enters.
So in order to pay our current entrants, which at this time is 17 authors, it is necessary for me to close the submissions now so that the prize monies can be awarded. I did not feel that doing a normal voting contest for Christmas this time would be conducive for the health of our site because in the past, there have been some misgivings about it. We also have some new authors too that entered for the first time. So, I want everyone to WIN.
I was going to hold this off as a surprise until the very end, but the sheer number of entries kept coming in and has now hit the point I cannot pay past. I truly mean it when I said everyone who enters is a winner. And we of the site are also winners to read such top notch writing anywhere on the Internet.
So without further ado, here is the list of our Entries!
- A Christmas Gift by Karen Lockhart
- Ghost Gift by Dorothy Colleen
- Gift of Fate by Shauna
- The Bittersweet Gift by Shauna
- Amadeus Irina by Shauna
- The Christmas Ginie by Alys Prince
- A Friend In Deed by Quadhouse
- Lost and Found by Julie D. Cole
- Bah Humbug! by Nikkie Silk
- A Summer's Odyssey IV Chapter 8 by Jennifer Sue
- Old friend, New love by Cheryl Bishop
- Home is Where the Heart is by Crazypagangurl
- Searching For Love by Andrea Lena
- The Gift by Morgan Philips
- A Mile in Her Moccasins by Haylee V
- The Dress that Changed My Life by Katherine Day
- Second Chances: A Scrooge and Christmas by Nessa M
- Nappa’s Noël by Nessa M
- The Immortal Gift by Frances Penwiddy
- The Beefeater by Charlotte Dickles
- Christmas Love by Mario Cawhern Davis
- Apocalypse Snow by Bailey Summers
- The Foster Mother by Asche
- There You Are by Enemyoffun
- Mark's Wish by TGSine
Each author will receive a prize of $100 for entering the contest!
The paypal payments to all the authors will made on January 12, 2017 near 12 noon EST.
And now, I will need the paypal contact information from our each of our contestants:
Karen Lockhart, Dorothy Colleen, Shauna, Alys Prince, Quadhouse, Julie D. Cole, Nikkie Silk, Jennifer Sue, Cheryl Bishop, Crazypagangurl, Andrea Lena, Morgan Philips, Haylee V, Katherine Day, Nessa M, Frances Penwiddy, Charlotte Dickles, and Mario Cawhern Davis.
All of you are top notch authors and I do not want to rank you all or leave anyone out!
From SamanthaMD and myself,
we love you all!
Possible delay in awarding my Christmas comp prizes
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Just a heads up to say that there might be a delay in the awarding of my extra prizes winners for the Christmas Competition.
My 94 years old Mother was admitted to Hospital last night. The Doctors don't really know what is wrong with her at the moment.
I've read every entry at least once and was in the process of producing a shortlist when this happened.
Apologies
Samantha