Poniverse Nightmare Night Contest · 2:29am Oct 7th, 2014
CITIZENS OF FIMFICTION!!! WE DESIRE SPLENDID, RIVETING READING MATERIAL FOR OUR FAVORITE HOLIDAY!!!!!!!! That holiday of course being... NIGHTMARE NIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!
To any and all writers of MLP fanfiction, it is my pleasure to announce an exciting opportunity for you all! Seeing as Poniverse has had a group up and running on Fimfiction for a few months now, I am pleased to inform you all that the Poniverse Fimfiction group is launching its first ever fanfiction contest!
What sort of contest, you may ask? Well, it being October and with Halloween right around the corner, this contest will have a Nightmare Night theme! Here are the contest rules and parameters:
(1) All entries must be somehow tied to or centered around Nightmare Night, whether comedy, slice of life, romance, horror, adventure, or some other genre.
(2) Entries should be no longer than 15,000 words. We'd prefer that all entries be one-shot fics, but if the author requires multiple chapters for their fic, that's fine, so long as the fic does not exceed 15,000 words and is complete upon entry.
(3) Entries cannot exceed a Teen rating. We will not accept any Mature rated fics, whether they be Gore fics, Slash fics, Clop fics, etc. That's not to say that you can't enter scary fics (after all, this is for Halloween), but our group has a strict policy of not accepting Mature rated fics. If any Mature rated fics are entered, we will not read or review them.
(4) Fics can be submitted to the contest in the folder titled "Nightmare Night Contest Entries".
(5) Contestants can enter no more than 1 submission of their own work (and please, do not enter any other author's work into the contest, even if you're doing it for them; if they'd like to enter the contest, they can do so themselves).
(6) Entries will be accepted until October 28; after that date, we will accept no new submissions.
We hope to announce the contest winners on October 31, although that date may change depending on whatever real life demands may arise in the next month. The fics that come in 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place will be featured on our Fimfiction group and MLP Forums, along with reviews published for each one. In addition, 1st place will receive a free art commission by the artist WanderingSpirit. The piece will be a 1-2 character full art piece with a basic background, and may be whatever the winner desires, whether it be cover art for a fic, or just art of an OC. Check out some of WanderingSpirit's lovely art on her deviantART page here.
We hope this is but the first of many contests hosted by our group, and hope to see some wonderful entries that help get us all into the Nightmare Night spirit! So get to it writers, and show us what you've got!
