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Organised by
RogerDodger
Word limit
2000–8000
Prizes
The following prizes are courtesy of horizon and Trick Question:
- $25 USD to 1st place
- $15 USD to 2nd place
- $15 USD to 3rd place
- $20 USD to the top placing entrant who has never entered a Writeoff before
A complete detailing of the prizes on offer is here.
Rules
Submissions that fail to follow these rules will be removed. Repeat or serious offences may result in offenders being banned from entering future events.
For rules that have a degree of ambiguity—in particular, genre and prompt rules—enforcement at the fringes is done by voters.
Contest
- Submitted works—
- may not be submitted elsewhere until the event's conclusion;
- must be based on the prompt to a reasonable and discernible degree;
- Submitted written works—
- must be written primarily in English;
- must be 2000–8000 words long;
- must not be mostly nonsense;
- Participants—
- may not start creating their work(s) until the prompt has been selected;
- may not disclose their authorship explicitly or implicitly until this website has done so;
- may not submit works explicitly connected to another work of theirs; and
- may not attempt to doctor the votes in any way that may give them or another person an unfair advantage.
Genre
This event's genre is Original. Submitted works to this event should fall under the following description:
Works not based on other work under U.S. copyright.
Content
This event's content level is T for Teen. This is loosely defined as material suitable for teenagers.
- Submitted works may not contain—
- depictions of sexual acts; or
- grotesque content.