In it for the win!
So I've got really exciting news to share--- I'm the overall winner of this year's Writers' Games!
The Writers' Workout is a group that organizes a series of writing prompts over the course of two months, from May to June. Each weekend there's a prompt and a set of guidelines, and you have 72 hours to complete the challenge.
The top three winners are announced the following Friday, followed by the next prompt. It challenges you as a writer. This year the stakes were high-- allegedly over 400 people took part, and the rumormill was whispering there was a waitlist of 300+.
There's a panel of judges plus a guest judge that reads all the entries each week, and it's done on an anonymous points system so the judges don't know who the authors are or who they're voting for.
Following the games they print the top winning entries for each event in an anthology and donate the proceeds to NaNoWriMo.
This year they're printing the top 5 winning stories for each event. I placed 5th, 4th, and 1st for the events, so 3 of my stories are being published! It was also a total shock, I was named the overall winner for the writers games this year!
*cue the happy dance*
Delighted, excited, super excited doesn't even cover it. But yeah, all of those and a whole lot more.
As for the prizes...
I get a free 1 year subscription to FirstWriter and a free 1 year membership to Pacemaker! Plus some other goodies, but I'm not gonna share those yet.
You can check out the first two volumes of the anthology online (see pics below).
Watch this space, and keep writing!
Cheers
ELJ
Anthology of the Games, Vol 1. 
Anthology of the Games, Vol 2.
The Writers' Workout is a group that organizes a series of writing prompts over the course of two months, from May to June. Each weekend there's a prompt and a set of guidelines, and you have 72 hours to complete the challenge.
The top three winners are announced the following Friday, followed by the next prompt. It challenges you as a writer. This year the stakes were high-- allegedly over 400 people took part, and the rumormill was whispering there was a waitlist of 300+.
There's a panel of judges plus a guest judge that reads all the entries each week, and it's done on an anonymous points system so the judges don't know who the authors are or who they're voting for.
Following the games they print the top winning entries for each event in an anthology and donate the proceeds to NaNoWriMo.
This year they're printing the top 5 winning stories for each event. I placed 5th, 4th, and 1st for the events, so 3 of my stories are being published! It was also a total shock, I was named the overall winner for the writers games this year!
*cue the happy dance*
Delighted, excited, super excited doesn't even cover it. But yeah, all of those and a whole lot more.
As for the prizes...
I get a free 1 year subscription to FirstWriter and a free 1 year membership to Pacemaker! Plus some other goodies, but I'm not gonna share those yet.
You can check out the first two volumes of the anthology online (see pics below).
Watch this space, and keep writing!
Cheers
ELJ
Anthology of the Games, Vol 1. Anthology of the Games, Vol 2.
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