July/August Community Contest

[RapeU]

Note: Contest cancelled due to forum closure

July/August Community Contest

Even though the forum is shutting down later, we can still have fun with contests

• Prompts: Photograph
  Barefoot
  Collar
• Language: English
• Length: Short (1,000 to 5,000 words)
• Required Tags: Eng, Finished, Short, Con/NonCon, June/JulyContest
• Deadline: August 1, 00:00 CET
• Voting Window: August 1 - August 7. The story with the highest rating will win. There will not be a poll.
  
  Rewards
  • The winner will receive a special title of their choice (unless they are part of the moderation team).
  • The winner will pick one out of the three prompts for the next community contest.
  • The top story will be pinned for a week to the public stories forum.
  • 25 reputation points for the winner, 10 for the runner-up.
  If you want to enter your story, please post it in the public stories board and reply to this thread with a link to your story. Also, the subject line of your story should reference the contest in the following way:
  
  • Title of your story - July/August Community Contest
  You may remove that reference once the contest is over. Also, please include a link to the contest thread before the beginning of your story and tell your readers that the story participates in the contest. You do not have to wait until the deadline to post your story, but the story must be posted before the deadline in order to count.
  
  The prompts themselves do not need to be explicit in your story, but the concepts of them do. Example: If one of the words was violin, you could write a character rosining a bow without specifically mentioning the word violin.

Note: The other two prompts in each community contest are suggested and voted on by Pillars of the Community in the section Dean's List, so if you want a say in what stories we get all you need is 50 reputation points!

Entries

• Love Thy Neighbor by @MisterZ

[MillieDynamite]

I'm sad to hear the site will be closing down.

[AdmiralPiet]

Important Information

While our original plan was to keep the contests running as normal as long as we could, that seems no longer feasible.
With activity dying down in light of the forum shutdown interest in contests seems to fall as well.

We had only a singular entry for the July/August Community Contest by @MisterZ

With only one participant we have no contest.
We encourage you however to read Love Thy Neighbor anyway and show some appreciation for @MisterZ's work by ratings and comments.

In accordance with @RapeU's announcement here, all planned upcoming contests for the July-December 2026 season, and the community contest are cancelled.
There might be a final contest before November, but it is not yet decided.