Spelljammer Short Story Contest!

Spelljammer Short Story Contest

The Seeker's Council is sponsoring a short story contest in order to
help generate new SJ fiction.

The rules are simple: The story must be set within the Spelljamming
universe, which must be a real part of the story. This may be
achieved by having the story deal with spelljamming directly (a
treasure hunt, or battle story, for example) or by being set fully
within a Spelljammer community (such as the Rock of Bral).
The story can also be no more then 10,000 words in length.

Spelljammer stories already posted to the net or list may be
submitted for the contest, provided they meet the word length
criteria. We suggest you edit them again for grammar and spelling,
but they may be submitted as is.

The story should stay close to the most important basics of
spelljamming, the Spheres and flow, and the SJ physics but again, we
will leave this to the voters.

To enter the contest just submit your story to the Spelljammer list,
or the Seeker's Council, along with a note stating you are submitting
the story to the contest.

All entries will be placed in the fiction section of Beyond the Moons.

The contest will last for six months, the deadline is June 30th,
2003. We will then have a 1 month judging period, so the winners will
be announced in early August, 2003.

The contest will be judged by the readers of the stories themselves,
who will rate stories on a scale of 1 to 10. The story with the
highest combined score wins the contest. The exact mechanics of
how/when to vote will be announced to the Spelljammer community in
June.

The winner's story will be noted on beyond the Moons, and the winner
will receive a wall plaque with their name and the title of their
story stating they won the 1st Annual Spelljammer Story Contest.
--
"...And nobody is to be killed at all, if it can be helped. Keep your
tempers and hold your hands until the last possible moment!"
"But if there many of these ruffians," said Merry, "it will certainly
mean fighting. You won't rescue Lotho, or the Shire, just by being
shocked and sad, my dear Frodo."

Paul Westermeyer,  westermeyer.3@???.edu
Phd Candidate, History, Ohio State University