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Holiday and Diversity Writing Challenge Winners!!


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Last month we ran our first ever prize based writing competition with a theme of Holiday and Diversity! 

We had 9 entries! :excited: Here are all the entries!

Staff and prefects read through every entry and graded them based on: 

  • Overall quality (25%)
  • Integration of first line (20%)
  • Use of theme (30%)
  • Spelling/Grammar (15%)
  • Originality (10%)

We had very well written, fun to read stories. I highly recommend you read through them! 

 

For those who get first in their house, they will receive: 

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Those who get second will receive: 

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:pride: Now finally --- the winners :hearteyes:

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@MuggleMaybe for First Lit, Last Burning!

Summary: Anthony has always loved celebrating Hanukkah with his family. This year, with war darkening the world around him, he finds new meaning in the festivasl of lights.

Why it's great: Renee did an amazing job writing about Ernie and Anthony's relationship during Deathly Hallows with a beautiful depiction of Hanukkah. Everyone who has read this story just falls in love with the beautifully complex story about love, hope, and letting the light shine.  

@just.a.willow.tree for red luck!!

SummaryI never realized how much I loved the scent of peppermint, until it was three
days till Christmas break and Rose still hadn’t asked me to visit her family.

Why it's great: This story is so heartfelt as it explores coming out to a homophobic parent with the excitement of Chinese New Year. It's a great story of love, bravery, and family. 

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@sapphicsunrise for Peppermint!

SummaryGinny always smelled of peppermint.

Why it's great: Ginny/Luna with past hetero relationship hangups with a first declaration of love for each other???? How could we not? 

@Aphoride for in the dawn, we shall enter the splendid cities!! 

Summary: 

Advent is a time for hoping, for waiting, for believing; a time when gods descend to the earth, and the celestial is made temporal. 

A shame then, that Grantaire believed in nothing but Enjolras. 

Or, Grantaire lit four red candles, one each Sunday of Advent; each time, he was visited by a god: a god who performed miracles. 

Why it's great: Laura's writing is an art more often than not and this story is not an exception. :wub: 

 

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@800 words of heaven for Chai, Dancing, and a Friend in the Wee Hours of the morning!

Summary: It had sounded like a good idea at the time.

Why it's great: Neville and Hannah are impossible not to love. If you've followed the Chai series, this will be a wonderfully delightful next story to read. Hannah and Neville are wonderfully written with the awkward nature you'd expect to see from Neville with a wonderful inclusion of Diwali. 

 

The admins want to take this opportunity to gift the extra prizes as follows:

:gryffindor: 

@TidalDragon -- You are a rickstar staffer and do such an amazing job with Gryffindor house. We appreciate you so much and want you to have a Gryffindor notebook and folder as a token of that heartfelt gratitude and appreciation. 

@nott theodore -- Sian left a ton of reviews through the snowball fight and has left the most reviews out of all of her house! and third overall on the site. For that dedication to authors and for leaving just the best reviews, we'd like to give you a Gryffie spiral notebook. 

:slytherin:

@RoxiMalfoy -- You're new to staff but have jumped in with such enthusiasm and dedication that we wanted to give you a Snake spiral notebook to show our love. 

 

Congrats everyone and thank you for participating!! 

Please PM me with an address and name to send your awards to!

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abhorsen.

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So many congrats to all of you! I loved reading your entries. :wub:

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nott theodore

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I was sad I didn't manage to get my entry finished, but all of the entries were of such a high standard and the winners are very well deserved and brilliant stories! Congratulations everyone :hug:

 

Being gifted the Gryffie notebook is so unexpected, thank you! :wub::hug:

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just.a.willow.tree

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Congratulations to everyone who won! And thank you so much :hug::wub:

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Guest Rumpelstiltskin

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Congratulations, everyone! I loved reading these--you all did an amazingly wonderful job!  Also, congratulations on the extra prizes, very well-deserved! :clapping:

 

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TidalDragon

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These stories were seriously awesome! It was a tough task to evaluate them! I also was definitely not expecting any sort of anything so...:hug:Y'all have made me smile. :D

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RoxiMalfoy

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OMGosh, this is so unexpected!! :wub:  THANK YOU GUYS!!! I love you all too, and I truly do love being on the Staff Team, and getting to serve this community alongside such wonderful people!! :hug:

Congrats to ALL the Challenge winners!! You guys certainly did not make it easy to judge this contest. Every entry was soo good!!! :thumbsup: Everyone did such an amazing job, and I really enjoyed reading them. Well done, everyone!!! :greenstars:

 

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abhorsen.

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6 hours ago, nott theodore said:

I was sad I didn't manage to get my entry finished, but all of the entries were of such a high standard and the winners are very well deserved and brilliant stories! Congratulations everyone :hug:

 

Being gifted the Gryffie notebook is so unexpected, thank you! :wub::hug:

If you (or anyone else - IIRC, @poppunkpadfoot was working on one, too?) finish it and want it included in the prefects' challenge series on the archive, let me know - I'll be happy to add it in, since it was written for the challenge! <3

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Aphoride

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Ahh you guys, this is amazing - I honestly didn't expect anything, the other entries were incredible! Thank you so much! :wub:

And congratulations to everyone else - all of the stories entered were unbelievably good. I don't know how the staff actually chose :):)

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Congratulations to all of you! Kevin is right - it was hard to evaluate them because they were all amazing and well-written and such original ideas too! It was a pleasure to read them all! So thank you!

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Veritaserum27

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Congrats to all!  I had such a great time reading all the entries.  It was tough to score them - there was some real quality writing!

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Felpata_Lupin

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Congratulations everyone! I've only read a couple of entries and I've loved them! Need to check all the others, too... :wub:

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mydearfoxy

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I am super delayed in replying to this, whoops. Anyways, Thank you SO MUCH! I had a great time writing my entry, and I've loved reading all the other entries, too!

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