- You may promote the contest and say that you entered, but if you reveal which story is yours you will be immediately disqualified, and that would just be sad. Please do not reply to reviews for your story until the contest is over and winners are announced. Remember, the judges have eyes everywhere, and will find out if you're not keeping your entry anonymous.
-Because this is an anonymous contest, we ask that you do not mention your Beta's name in your author's note. While we understand that you want to give your beta and or prereader credit for their hard work, we want this contest to remain as anonymous as possible. Any A/N that include names of beta's or prereaders will be deleted.
- All entries must be original, new for this contest. Participants are more than welcome to continue the story after the contest concludes.
- All entries must use one of the picture prompts as inspiration for their story and include their autocorrect prompt somewhere in the story.
- Collaborations are welcome.
- Two submissions per person/collaboration. This means if you submit a collab, you may also submit 1 story of your own as well.
- Participants must be 18 or older.
- Minimum of 2,000 words and maximum of 10,000 words, not counting the header and a/n.
- All POV’s welcome.
- All genre's are welcome.
- This is the DYAC Contest, but your stories will not autocorrect themselves. All o/s’s must be BETA’d. We will be validating all entries for grammar, spelling, etc. If there are a large number of errors then your entry will be sent back to you so that you may edit and revise before resubmitting. After all, we all want to read your best work.
- All pairings are welcome; in fact…bring on the non-canon pairings because we love them all!
- AH/AU/Canon/Non-Canon/Slash….it’s all good in our book.
- We DON’T want to see any rape, incest, bestiality, abuse or pedophilia.
- Lemons are awesome and we’ll gladly read them but they are not required.
Submission Heading:
The DYAC Contest
PenName:
Rating:
Word Count:
Prompt Picture #:
Pairing:
Summary:
Disclaimer:
Submit your entries by sending them to DYACcontest@gmail.com You should get a confirmation email that we received and posted your entry to our FF profile within 48 hours.
Important Dates:
Entries will be accepted from September 1 through October 16
Public voting will be from October 17 through October 28 (link to vote will be posted here as well as on the contest's FF profile when voting opens. Voting will be based off of US EST)
Winners will be announced October 31
