Contest July-August 2022 Short Story Contest Entry Thread

My story have been submitted!

 

And two makes a contest.

 

IIRC the contest with the lower number of stories was 4. I hope we'll do as much as a minimum.
Certainly we won't touch past levels as 14 entries.

 

Most short story content entries show up at the last minute.

I didn't do the math, I'm ballparking with my memory with facilitating a gazillion contests, but every contest is different.

Week 1: 10% of entries
Week 2: 10% of entries
Week 3: 20% of entries
Week 4: 50% of entries
Overtime: 10% of entries

Poetry Contests tend to be frontloaded with about half of entries arriving in the first week, almost nothing in the middle and the rest at the end.

Certain writers are early birds and certain writers are habitually last minute writers. Most of our early birds have been absent for the last year.

Ironically, the writers we have young enough to still be in high school and university are less likely to write short stories in the summer than the school year. I guess L-O can be a de-stresser for school work.

Overall, our biggest contests in terms of entrants tend to be October-November or January-February.

 

Due to scheduling issues and spotty internet on my end, I've extended the deadline of both contests to August 3rd. And I won't be able to do much editing.

 

isn't the deadline like... today?

 

Technically the deadline is 15 hours from now.

That said, the deadline is a guideline not a hard line. If someone, perhaps even Scalenex, especially Scalenex, needs a bit more time to finish a story, I will grant said time.

That said I have writer's block myself.

Here's the running update.



I'd be delighted to push this to 5 or 6.

 

Take all the time you need, we got the poetry contest voting up now to sate people's desire to read something fresh in the mean time.

 

Perfect!!!