00-NEW CONTEST

Prize changes to 1st, 2nd, 3rd place (all 1st-place winners get Ranquilco)

            7 Honorable Mention, 10 additional finalists (in compilation) 

  • 2014: All categories $300 1st prize, $150 2nd, $50 3rd = $3,500 PayPal cash
  • 2015: All categories $500 1st prize, $300 2nd, $200 3rd = $7,000 PayPal cash
  • 2016: All categories $1000 1st prize, $650 2nd, $350 3rd = $14,000 PayPal cash

Thus, this would change the cash outlay from $22,000 over two years ($11k/yr) to $24,500 over three years ($8,166/yr)

We do not yet advertise the 2016 contest, but we agree on the strategy now, willing to change as we accrue more info.

Early entry changes 2015 (4/1/15) and 2016 reduces entry fees from $25 to $15???

ALSO: Between these big contests, we can have an Under-18 Contest—Open Category 

  • $100 1st prize, $50 2nd, $25 3rd = $175 PayPal cash: try tis once and see what happens

NOTE: In all categories in all contests, only original work may be submitted. Discovery to the contrary will cause the user to be banned from WARP Place in perpetuity.

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WARP Contest Changes

  • Expands while simplifying
  • Includes our visual artists, and moves 2-minute video contest from Play (nowhere-ville) to the contest (3 minutes or less)
  • Years flip #5 place that/person with; otherwise repeats; 2016: #5 Person or Place (TBD)
  • 2014: All categories  $500 first prize, plus trip to Ranquilco
  • 2015: All categories $1000 first prize, plus trip to Ranquilco
  • 2016: All categories $2000 first prize, plus trip to Ranquilco (TBD)

2014: Writing Entries—500 to 6,000 words

  1. The Energy of Flow
  2. Short Fiction
  3. Short Nonfiction
  4. Poetry
  5. Person who has expanded your worldview

2014: Visual Art Entries

  1. Photo/Painting w/paragraph—Place that has expanded your worldview (6 to 12 images; more description to come)
  2. Video w/paragraph—Earth Rescue: done, needed, in progress (3 minutes or less; more description to come)

2015: Writing Entries—500 to 6,000 words,

  1. The Energy of Flow
  2. Short Fiction
  3. Short Nonfiction
  4. Poetry
  5. Place that has expanded your worldview

2015: Visual Art Entries

  1. Photo/Painting w/paragraph—Place that has expanded your worldview (6 to 12 images; more description to come)
  2. Video w/paragraph—Earth Rescue: done, needed, in progress (3 minutes or less; more description to come)

2016 TBD at a later time but tentatively:

2016: Writing Entries—500 to 6,000 words,

  1. The Energy of Flow
  2. Short Fiction
  3. Short Nonfiction
  4. Poetry
  5. Person who or Place that has expanded your worldview

2016: Visual Art Entries

  1. Photo/Painting w/paragraph—Person who has expanded your worldview (6 to 12 images; more description to come)
  2. Video w/paragraph—Earth Rescue: done, needed, in progress (3 minutes or less; more description to come)