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The 2006 Green Lion Fanfiction Contest
Starting July 8th, Scimitar
Smile is hosting its second Green Lion
fanfiction contest, from now until 11:59 PM October 15, 2006. SS is hosting this
contents in the hopes of inspiring new authors in Fullmetal Alchemist to put
their works forward, inspiring old authors to try something new, and in producing
plenty of enjoyable and exciting fics for fans of all tastes -- yaoi, het, or
gen.
Submission
guidelines
•
To qualify, you must submit
a new, previously unpublished fanfic. It's all right to show it to just
a few friends or beta-readers, but your fic cannot have been publically posted
anywhere on the web prior to submission to this contest. In the case of fics
over a certain length, they can be considered eligible so long as not more than
5,000 words have been published previously. Only completed works can
be submitted.
• You do NOT need to be a
previously hosted author at Scimitar
Smile in order to participate in this contest. New authors are welcomed
and encouraged. Entries for this contest will not be required to adhere to a
theme, but if authors wish to have a prompt to consider, the theme for this
contest is: Final transmutation.
• To submit to the contest,
send your fic as a plain text or plain html*
file to Scimitar Smile's email address, musokamaru@scimitarsmile.com
by 11:59 PM August 31, 2006. In the body of your email, include a header
with the following information:
1. Your username
2. Your email
3. Your LJ name (if applicable) or your hosted URL (if applicable)
4. The word count of your fic
5. The title of your fic
6. The rating (please use the Scimitar
Smile rating system of GA-MA)
7. Any special warnings, including episode, chapter, or movie spoilers
8. The pairing information. (Please make sure you have read all about
the pairing
awards before you decide this! If you want your fic to be considered for
the 'best new pairing' award, make sure to note here that this is your first
time writing this pairing.)
9. A single line from your fic that you feel best represents it. (If
you do not choose one of your own, the contest mods will choose one for you!)
Submissions will be stripped of their identifying information (the first four)
and placed up on the Green Lion page of Scimitar
Smile as they arrive.
• A single author cannot enter
more than one fic in each category; they can enter one fic in each category,
for a maximum of two fics. A single fic cannot receive more than three awards.
• Please submit final-draft
quality fics only. If a story has not been adequately edited, it will be returned
to the author so that spelling/grammar issues may be addressed. Every fic should
be on equal footing with its coompetition.
The webmaster also reserves the right to reject any fic which fails to meet this criteria,
or which for any other reason (plagiarism, trolling, lack of relation to the
FMA series) would be rendered invalid.
*Plain .txt or plain
.html ONLY! Do not send .doc or .rtf files, do not use Microsoft word or any
other translation program to format your HTML! If your fic is not in plain text
or plain HTML, it will be sent back until the format is corrected.
•
The
normal prize will be an amazon.com gift certificate worth $15...
in other words, equivalent to the cost and shipping of one volume of the Fullmetal
Alchemist manga.
•The
grand prize will be an amazon.com gift certificate worth $25...
in other words, equivalent to the cost and shipping of one DVD of the Fullmetal
Alchemist anime.
•Winners may also opt to take
a Livejournal.com gift certificate
of equal value.
On top of from these three awards, the contest will divide into two categories:
long and short fanfics. Fics 10,000 words long and over will be considered long
fics; fics 9,999 words or less are considered short fics. Within each category,
the judges will give two awards.
•
The first will be an
award for 'best action/adventure.' Whichever fic in the category the
judges think has the most exciting action, the most original concept, the best
crafted plot, and the most thrilling adventure will receive the 'best action/adventure'
award.
• The second will be an
award given for 'best new pairing.' New pairing is based on whether the
submitting author has ever written for this pairing before. If you make
a note in your pairing section that this is a new pairing for you, then your
fic can be considered for the 'best new pairing' award.' We have no way of 100%
verifying or enforcing whether this is true, but we're counting on everyone
to get into the spirit of the contest and try something new!
Remember, both of these awards will be given to fics in both the
long and short categories. In other words, if there are fewer fics in the longer
category, then each fic has a better chance of winning one of the two awards
in that category than if there are a lot of fics in the shorter category.
All fics will automatically be considered for best in show, for webmaster's
choice, and will be put up for vote for the reader's choice. All entries in
all categories, whether or not they win, will be permanently hosted on Scimitar
Smile on the contest homepage.
If you're curious about the
original Green Lion contest, you can find some of the entries on the 2004
Spring Challenge page, as well as in individual authors' pages around the
site.
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