The April/May Community Contest - Cancelled: Prompts Moved to May/June Community Contest

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The April/May Community Contest - Cancelled: Prompts Moved to May/June Community Contest

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Note: Contest cancelled due to the events of last week.

April/May Community Contest
  • Prompts: Revenge
    Blackout
    College
  • Language: English
  • Length: Short (1,000 to 5,000 words)
  • Required Tags: Eng, Finished, Short, Con/NonCon, Apr/May Contest
  • Deadline: May 1, 00:00 CET
  • Voting Window: May 1 - May 7. The story with the highest rating will win. There will not be a poll.

    Rewards
    • The winner will receive a special title of their choice (unless they are part of the moderation team).
    • The winner will pick one out of the three prompts for the next community contest.
    • The top story will be pinned for a week to the public stories forum.
    • 25 reputation points for the winner, 10 for the runner-up.
    If you want to enter your story, please post it in the public stories board and reply to this thread with a link to your story. Also, the subject line of your story should reference the contest in the following way:
    • Title of your story - April/May Community Contest
    You may remove that reference once the contest is over. Also, please include a link to the contest thread before the beginning of your story and tell your readers that the story participates in the contest. You do not have to wait until February to post your story, but the story must be posted before the deadline in order to count. A reminder countdown timer will be announced starting one week before the deadline.

    The prompts themselves do not need to be explicit in your story, but the concepts of them do. Example: If one of the words was violin, you could write a character rosining a bow without specifically mentioning the word violin.
Note: The other two prompts in each community contest are suggested and voted on by Pillars of the Community in the section Dean's List, so if you want a say in what stories we get all you need is 50 reputation points!
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Re: The April/May Community Contest

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I have an glimmer of an idea
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Re: The April/May Community Contest - Cancelled: Prompts Moved to May/July Community Contest

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I have a small free window. When can we start posting stories?
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Re: The April/May Community Contest - Cancelled: Prompts Moved to May/July Community Contest

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I think the contest is ongoing now, and for another 10d 23h ish, so you can post whenever your story is ready :) (it is the second timer at the top) :)
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Re: The April/May Community Contest - Cancelled: Prompts Moved to May/July Community Contest

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Though it is now technically may/june not april/may contest :)
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Re: The April/May Community Contest - Cancelled: Prompts Moved to May/July Community Contest

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Oh, I linked the wrong thread! I'll have to fix that.
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Re: The April/May Community Contest - Cancelled: Prompts Moved to May/July Community Contest

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-For your consideration - The Commuter

viewtopic.php?t=1633

Also, the error 'May/June Contest is an invalid tag' popped up on my screen. I submitted my entry without it, I hope that's OK.
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Re: The April/May Community Contest - Cancelled: Prompts Moved to May/June Community Contest

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@VictimEyes It's all right, we're going to look into it.
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Re: The April/May Community Contest - Cancelled: Prompts Moved to May/July Community Contest

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VictimEyes wrote: Tue May 26, 2026 1:50 am -For your consideration - The Commuter

viewtopic.php?t=1633

Also, the error 'May/June Contest is an invalid tag' popped up on my screen. I submitted my entry without it, I hope that's OK.
I keep forgetting the tag system doesn't like it when I use things that aren't letters like ' / or !

Tag is fixed and I added it for you. Also this isn't the correct thread, but that's ok I'll just look through both this one and the new one when the writing phase ends.
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Re: The April/May Community Contest - Cancelled: Prompts Moved to May/July Community Contest

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VictimEyes wrote: Tue May 26, 2026 1:50 am -For your consideration - The Commuter

viewtopic.php?t=1633

Also, the error 'May/June Contest is an invalid tag' popped up on my screen. I submitted my entry without it, I hope that's OK.
Sorry for the confusion. I accidentally put the wrong link in the announcement banner. I put the right one in now.