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Title: Give your contest a title. Description: Explain your contest, how it would positively impact the Wikipedia community and what general purpose it would serve. Instructions: Outline the step-by-step process of how you envision the contest unfolding, including any specific guidelines.
The William Faulkner – William Wisdom Creative Writing Competition is one of America's leading literary competitions and has been presenting awards in fiction, nonfiction and poetry since 1993. [1] The competition is named after the Faulkner Society’s namesake, novelist William Faulkner , and William Wisdom of New Orleans , a literary ...
<< Writing contests. The International writing contest is a simultaneous contest held on many language Wikipedias. The English contest was shorter than the others, running for only a week at the end of the month, but the basic rules are the same. Please see the meta page about the contests for the combined results in all languages.
Each year, the rules of the contest are published on the IOCCC website. All material is published under Creative Commons license BY-SA 3.0 Unported. [8] Rules vary from year to year and are posted with a set of guidelines that attempt to convey the spirit of the rules. Hacking the contest rules is a tradition. — Landon Curt Noll, 2011 [6]
Contests have also been run on various other Wikimedia projects, generally eliciting excitement and support; the Wikinews writing contest in March/April and the second German writing contest (part of the International writing contest) both attracted over 10 unusual prizes from the community to hand out to the lucky/skillful winners.
Creative writing is any writing that goes outside the bounds of normal professional, journalistic, academic, or technical forms of literature, typically identified by an emphasis on narrative craft, character development, and the use of literary tropes or with various traditions of poetry and poetics.
The Afrikaans prize has been awarded since 2001, but was previously called the RAU-Prys vir Skeppende Skyfwerk (RAU Prize for Creative Writing) and located at Rand Afrikaans University (RAU). [3] In 2005, when RAU was merged with other institutions to establish UJ, the name of the prize was changed and the English category was introduced.