Member-Sponsored Asylum Contest

Details

From the Dancing Plague (Strasbourg 1518) to the multiple phobias we have today, mental health professionals have dealt with all kinds of serious and complex pathologies. Now, you can help us to imagine new and challenging mental diseases for our fictional Asylum! Send us your cases.

Create a fictional mental pathology and use it in a story with the setting of your choice.

Examples:

• Less is More Overdose

• Alien Lighthouse Pyromania

• Miss Riddle Vanishing Syndrome

• Self-defense Suicide Attempt

• Screens Deprivation Phenomenon

• Super Antihero Complex

• Shapeshifterphilia

• Post Cryogenic Iceberg Addiction

• Fried Mermaid Eating Compulsion

You are free to use these examples but strongly encouraged to create your own pathology. The verisimilitude is not required or forbidden but real, known, and typified pathologies are not allowed. The way to use the fictional mental pathology in the story is your choice.

All genres are welcome. The word limit is 500 words by Scribophile's count.

Prize money for this contest is provided by the Scribophile Writing Contest Prize Fund.

Winning entries

Winners have been announced! Log in to see them.

Prizes

Rules

• Entries must be received by April 10, 2021, 11:59pm UTC.

• Entries must be no longer than 500 words, per Scribophile’s count.

• Multiple entries are not allowed.

• Fiction only, please.

• No poetry or novel chapters.

• Work must have Public visibility on Scribophile until winners are announced.

• If you have placed in a contest in the past with a piece, you may not resubmit that piece to this contest.

Submission guidelines

• To enter the contest, post your work on Scribophile and check the box that says “Enter this work into the Member-Sponsored Asylum Contest.”

• Entry is free, but you’ll need karma points to post your work. You can earn karma points by writing critiques of other member’s work.