Member-Sponsored Musician With A Pen Contest

Details

This is a two option contest. Not all of us are musicians, so you can choose the one that’s right for you.

Option 1: Take a piece of music from a language you don't understand, and let it inspire a story. You can submit a short story up to 1500 words, or 1500 words of your first chapter of a novel. You can choose the song, but here are a couple that may inspire some of you. You can use anything with vocals you can't understand.

For example, this song or this song.

Option 2: If you're a musician, the challenge is to write your own song, and the story it inspires in you. The song could even be used for a trailer for your story one day.

Winning entries

Winners have been announced! Log in to see them.

Prizes

Rules

• Your entry must be a story of no more than 1500 words as counted by Scribophile.

• Entries must be received by midnight, October 31, 2013 (UTC time), and winners will be announced within two weeks of that date.

• Entries will be judged by a selected group of Scribophile members. Decisions are final.

• Only one entry is allowed per member. Multiple entries will all be disqualified.

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

Submission guidelines

• To enter the contest, post your work on Scribophile and check the box that says "Enter this work into the Member-Sponsored Musicians With A Pen Contest". Your work will be automatically considered. The checkbox will be visible until the contest deadline, which is in UTC time.

• In addition to the karma spent on posting your work, you must send an additional 1 karma point to Allison Black. You can send karma points by opening your Account menu, clicking Karma, then the Send button in the right-hand toolbar. You can earn karma points by writing critiques of work by other members.

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