KAG-Con 2022, May 12-15

Four days of online fun, fandom and gaming!

The winners are:

1st Place: Man Fall

2nd Place: Double-Edged Antiquity

Judge’s note:

Thanks for all those who took the time to submit this year! There were some interesting and thought-provoking stories. In the end, "Man Fall" rose to the top for its powerful atmosphere and unique and tight story, while Double-Edged Antiquity really integrated the prompts fully and had some nice world building. Congratulations, and hope to see your work again next year!

DEADLINE UPDATE

Entries may now be submitted up until midnight on Friday, May 27, 2022.

DETERMINATION OF AWARDS UPDATE

Unfortunately, we had to make the decision to forgo the community voting portion of this year's Flash-Fiction Challenge as there were not enough submissions to make it feasible.

However, we did have enough entries for our Judge to work with, so congratulations to our 1st and 2nd place winners this year!

Flash-Fiction Challenge

On the morning of May 14, 2022, three image prompts will be posted to the Flash Fiction Challenge channel of our Discord Server. These three image prompts are to be used as inspiration for the submissions to this contest. In keeping with this challenge being part of a gaming convention, the three image prompts will be generated randomly from three of Rory's Story Cubes. Participants will have until midnight (Eastern/UTC-5) on May 21, 2022 to submit a PDF of their entry that was inspired by the three image prompts.

CHALLENGE REGULATIONS

1) All entries to this online fiction challenge must be original works created within the time frame of the challenge; between the start of the challenge as indicated by the posting of the three prompt images on May 14, 2022 and the close of the challenge at midnight on May 21, 2022.

2) Each participant may only submit one entry to the challenge.

3) Participants retain all rights to the submitted works and can withdraw them at any time.

4) Each entry must incorporate the participant's interpretation of the three image prompts given at the beginning of the challenge on May 14, 2022.

5) Respect your fellow authors.

6) Have fun!

SUBMISSION RULES

1) All entries to this online fiction challenge must be between 100 and 1,000 words in length.

2) All genres are welcome except erotica. If your story contains potentially triggering material (e.g. abuse), please include a trigger warning at the start.

3) Submissions must respond to the three image prompts in some way. (An optional couple of sentences can be included explaining how your story responds to the prompt, if unclear.)

4) Submissions must have some sort of plot (e.g. no character sketches).

SUBMISSION OF ENTRIES

To be considered for the challenge, all PDF entries must be emailed to KAG.meetup@gmail.com before midnight (Eastern/UTC-5) on May 21, 2022 .

Please ensure that the subject line of your email for your submission includes " (KC2022 Flash-Fiction) ", your Discord name, and the title of your artwork.

The PDF of your entry must include the title of your work, but should not include your name within the body of the PDF.

UPDATE!

Here are the three image prompts for the challenge. Please remember to include a brief note about your interpretation of these images when you submit your story.

DETERMINATION OF AWARDS

After the close of the challenge, submissions will be judged in two rounds;

In round one, the contest judge will narrow down the initial submissions to a set of 4-7 finalists. These finalists will then be posted to a single discussion channel that will be made available for everyone in the Kingston Area Gamers community to view. For the purposes of this challenge, each entry will be posted to the discussion channel using the provided title, but without mention of the artist's name. This is so that each submission can be read blind (without author names) to reduce bias.

In round two, the contest judge will choose first and second place winners from the set of 4-7 finalists (entries will be judged on writing quality, originality/interest, and overall story quality), while the members of the Kingston Area Gamers community vote for their favorite from the same set of 4-7 finalists to determine the community choice winner. Community voting will open as soon as the discussion channel is made viewable and close at midnight one week later.

After the voting for round two concludes, the results will be announced one day later, with awards handed out as follows;

1st Place Winner

2nd Place or* Community Choice Winner

*Note: If the Community Choice winner is different from the First and Second place winners chosen by the contest judge, then the award will go to the Community Choice winner instead of the 2nd Place winner.

ABOUT THE JUDGE

FRANCES KOZIAR is a local Kingston author with over 110 pieces of prose and poetry published in 80 different literary magazines and outlets, including Best Canadian Essays 2021, Daily Science Fiction, CBC: Opinion, and SubTerrain. She also spent a year working as an editor at the microfiction literary magazine 101 Words, choosing which stories were accepted for publication, and is looking forward to judging KAG-Con’s contest for the second year in a row! This May, she will also be on a writer’s panel at the Kingston & Frontenac Public Library (https://calendar.kfpl.ca/event/6471180). Her website: https://franceskoziar.wixsite.com/author

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