As this group has grown many wonderful stories have been added to our precious library. However, there are monster mares out there that are lacking any tales of their own. So, while I am a monster mare enthusiast I wanted to try to see if we could perhaps increase the number of stories for these less then popular monster mares. I also wanted to expand upon the Monster Mare Story List, which consists of Safe for Work (SFW) stories with our various monster mares. Thus, with some help we are starting our 1st Monster Mare Story Contest.

The objective behind this short story contest is to increase the number of SFW stories that feature a monster mares that aren’t very common. So, in addition to being a good story, your story will also be judged on how unique/original your monster mare is.

Now you might be asking, what is consider popular and unpopular? Good question. As shown above we have a story list, which shows all the Monster Mare stories we have based off of “species.” If a species has 5+ stories it is considered popular, if it has 3+ stories it is considered average, 1+ is considered uncommon and 0 (not on the list) is considered rare. The higher the rarity the more points you will receive from our judges.

Don't worry, stories that have been submitted to the contest and added to the Monster Mare Story List, will have an asterisks (*) at the end to note that the story was submitted to the contest and do not count toward the original number of stories in that species.

Now that this has been established here are the Rules:

• The story must be safe for work (SFW), meaning it can’t have explicit sexual content (no clop, sorry).
• The word count has to be a minimum of 2,500 words and the story can’t exceed 8,000 words. We don’t want to burn out our judges.
• The story has to feature a monster mare. If you need help know what a monster mare is, there is a thread for that: What is a Monster Mare.
• They must be ponies. -No Equestria Girl Monster Girls this time around. Perhaps next time.
• It must be a new story, it can't be a story you've already written and decided to try to submit to contest.
• All stories must be submitted to the contest folder.
• It goes without saying, but have fun.

The Prizes are as follows:

• 1st Place: An Art Commission from Lunar Flarion along with a digital art piece of your monster mare OC by Grim_Grin.
• 2nd Place: A water color and color pencil drawing of your monster mare OC by Grim_Grin.
• 3rd Place: A Pencil drawing of your monster mare OC by Grim_Grin.
• All Places (Whither you made it to the top 3 or not): Will have their stories featured in the Monster Mares Story List.

Our judges will consist of Lunar Flarion and Kydois.

The deadline for this contest is: June 17^th 2019.

Thank you all for reading this thread. Hopefully, we will be reading your submitted stories soon.

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I look forward to participating

6852305 I look forward to seeing you participate.

No porn? Bah! I'm out.

Sounds fun! Can we enter more than once?

6852822 I'm glad you're interested. I'll have to check with the judges and see.

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Thanks for checking. Follow up question: is this limited to OCs only, or can our monster mare be a canon pony (who either gets transformed or was one secretly the whole time)?

6852941 yeah, it is totally fine having a Canon character be a monster mare. Whither they have always been that way (like they've been hiding it or an alt universe) or they were transformed by some means, it is totally fine.

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Question.
I wanna write a horror story where the characters are hunted by a monster mare, does that count for this contest?
Or does the monster mare have to have dialog and developed relationships with other characters?

6852969 Well, I'm not judging so I can't say for sure. Personally I would prefer to see some dialogue, however there is nothing saying that the monster mare has to be the protagonist.

Sounds interesting. I'm in!

6853221 I am glad to hear that. I hope you have fun.

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Thanks! So can I send it in whenever or is there an official start time?

6853282 Yesterday was the start date, so you can send it in whenever.

I've had a long running idea for a Golem Mare story, is that considered a monster here?

Golem is a stone, clay etc creature created to serve others mostly for revenge on others.

6853683 I would think so and we are in need of some golem/elemental monster mares in this group, so go ahead.

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Awesome! Count me in then!

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Great!

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I'm always up for publicity and I've been trying to think of a story since I saw this contest. It won't be that deep as it'll be a comedy/mystery like story, but I have an idea that might give me an edge (though it has changed over the course of a few days).

Just a heads up, you might need to throw a story into the contest folder before any of us can throw in our own stories (some kind of website issue thing).

6854523 There is a way to submit stories to groups from the story themselves. However, if you have any issues adding any stories to the folder, let me know and provide me with a link and I'll address it.

6852240
I've got a story in the works for this contest also. I can guarantee that it's one nobody has probably even given much thought towards.

6855525 That is awesome to hear.

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Question l just thought of. Would a regular pony in a monster world be considered a monster?

6858325 Possibly... However, that isn't really what I had in mind with this contest.

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It would be a interesting story though

6855576
just thought of a question. Does this have to be all one chapter or can we separate it into a few?

6858671 I'm sure having it separated into a few chapters will be fine.

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Just making sure. Thanks Don't know why but when I cut it into chapters it seems less... daunting, even though it's the same length.

6858753 I guess that makes sense. Personally I like have large word counts, however as you may have seen with my recent "short" story, I did split it into multiple chapters.

6852822 It has been agreed upon that participants can send in more than one entry, however it should be noted that stories will be judged by quality, not quantity. If that makes sense.

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6853785 I just wanted to see how everyone is doing? Currently there are 2 stories in the contest folder.

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I'm trying to think of another entry but nothing is really coming to mind

6871321
I'm good thanks for asking! Just hoping that people enjoy my story.

6871321
I'm slightly hung up on a small part but I'm working my way through it. Thanks for asking.

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I have my idea planned, but unexpected work and family issues keep cutting heavily into my writing time. Though I do know for sure that it's a monster type that has not been featured yet.

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Mine is done, just biding my time to see if anything I want to change pops up.

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I'm constantly rewriting characters to find that one combination that'll work. I'm also trying to keep an eye on the word limit (currently at 5300, but there's still a lot of parts that I haven't fully written about to consider).

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6852969 the 17th is almost upon us. Just wanted to see how you are all doing.

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Gonna be cutting it close. One is about 60-70% done, the other is still mostly in scraps but planned out.

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This is me at the moment.

Yep... nothing wrong here... totally normal.

Quick question on that deadline: Does "June 17^th 2019" mean:

Final submissions on June 17, up to when midnight turns it into June 18.
or
Final submissions up until the second before the date becomes June 17?

Cause that's a whole day of difference, one which I need to know if I have or not.

6890475 June 17th before midnight should be fine.

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Thanks! I should have time to get my secondary one done then.

6852240
I DID IT!! I finally finished it! I was cutting it kinda close but now all I need to do is wait for it to post and I can put it into the folder.

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Mine is complete and posting!

I rated it Mature, just for safety.

I feel it's a High Teen personally.

But I'm not too sure, it has very few small scenes of violence and death.

But not Gore bound or anything.

I got the first in, but I have work tomorrow and I'm going to have to really rush to finish the ending of the second one in time.

Stumbled upon this yesterday (Well, I guess technically the day before yesterday? The curse of being nocturnal, terms like 'yesterday' and 'tomorrow' kind of ruin their normally accepted meaning and get thrown for a loop) completely on accident when I saw That Time Pinkie Pie was a Slime All Along and knew I HAD to try to make something to compete, even if I only had a manner of hours to pull something together. Thanks for the challenge, hope you all enjoy my contribution.

And got the second one in! Just in time. This one's the real entry, with a monster no one's ever heard of.

I saw the "Pinkie is a Slime" story and immediately started to think up ideas. Then I saw the deadline🤣

6893263 Well, don't worry. This contest seemed to have gone pretty well and who knows maybe I can organize a second one in the future.

6893257 That's awesome!

6892641 I appreciate your enthusiasm and your effort. I hope we will see more stories from you in the future.