Steampunk Writing Competition

Sharpen your pencils! Steampunk Adventures is hosting a SL writing competition for short stories and poetry. The goal is to take any Grimm Brother’s Fairy Tale and give it a Steampunk edge, theme, or twist. The winning entries will be posted at http://steampunkadventuressl.wordpress.com. The web site has information about some SL steampunk sims. Complete rules can be found there as well.

The competition organizers said, "Don’t be afraid to come up with something new, different and provocative. You can rewrite the story from a new perspective, provide a new ending or even just take some of the themes of the classic tale and rework them into a new one." Grimm Brother's Fairy Tales can be found at http://www.familymanagement.com/literacy/grimms/grimms-toc.html

The only guidelines are that the entry must integrate the essential elements of Steampunk and meet the word count criteria. Short stories can be up to 8000 words, and poetry can be up to 40 lines. In addition to being published on the blog, the orgnizers are planning an ebook anthology of Steampunk Adventures best stories, nonfiction, and poetry.

The competition deadline is March 1, 2011. Submissions should be emailed to steampunkadventurers@gmail.com