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“Fanfiction isn’t real writing.”

“Why don’t you read a real book?”

“You’re not a teenager, you can’t write fanfic!”

“You’re too old for fandom.”

We’ve all seen posts like these and rolled our eyes. We’ve each had someone hurtfully guffaw at our hobby. Times when we’ve been embarrassed to tell people what we’re doing when the screens are on and the keys are clicking. 

Well, no more. It’s time to stand up for our craft and our age! 

Get ready to join a writing contest that not only encourages “older” fanfiction authors, but downright has an age gate! That's right- you must be over 30 to join in on the fun!

Why 30? Because 29 7/8th sounded dumb. 

The Storytellers Contest is a new idea, a new challenge, a new way to show off your skills and prove to the youths that age is but a number and things only get better with time. To participate, all authors, artists, and judges must be at least thirty years of age prior to the opening of registration. And what’s more? The characters must be over thirty as well. That’s right. In for a penny...

Each round of The Storytellers Contest will focus on a single actor and any eligible aged characters that they have portrayed. The stories will be gripping and immersive, with impeccable grammar and spot-on characterization. They will be crafted with care and judged by a panel of specially selected fanfiction authors who, not only know the pain of writing, but are - you guessed it - over thirty. 

Once the judges have spoken and the scores have been tabulated, winners will be announced, and prizes will be given out. Yes, prizes! Fandom-specific prizes! Amazing prizes valued at over $1,100! Well, OK, not that much, but they’ll still be really cool. And, everyone who participates will get a badge for their blog and bragging rights for life.

For the inaugural round of The Storytellers Contest, we have chosen the incredible actor, director, singer, and producer Jensen Ackles. You know him from Supernatural, you’re counting down the days till you see him in Countdown, and now you’re gonna win a prize for crafting an epic story around him! 

Head on over to Storytellers Contest: The Jensen Ackles Chronicles to find out more. 

We can’t wait to see you there!

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Little note from the hosts!

We’ve gotten a few mentions about how this first round, featuring Jensen Ackles and his characters, excludes specific ships - J2/Wincest, Destiel/Cockles. This was not done out of malice towards these ships; in fact, one of the hosts writes a lot of them both.

The hosts had a discussion at length about allowing these ships, and it was decided that since some of them do not really care to read them, we’d exclude them from this round of the contest. This is our inaugural round, and we are testing things out. We’re doing this for a love of reading and writing, and since it’s already an exclusive theme (being over 30 on everything), we went for it. Because we’re all nuts over Ackles, we went with him.

We’d really love it if you’d take a chance on our contest and participate, but if not, we totally get that, too. No hard feelings, as we hope you won’t have any towards us for the exclusion of your ship.

As far as future rounds are concerned, we already have two other actors in mind, and those contests are being formulated. No, they’re not SPN specific, and at the moment, we don’t see any ships, rare or otherwise, being omitted.

Again, we’re sorry if this is upsetting to you; that’s totally not our intention. We just want to have a fun contest for the over-the-hill writers like us to enjoy.

Thanks!

~Beka

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“Fanfiction isn’t real writing.”

“Why don’t you read a real book?”

“You’re not a teenager, you can’t write fanfic!”

“You’re too old for fandom.”

We’ve all seen posts like these and rolled our eyes. We’ve each had someone hurtfully guffaw at our hobby. Times when we’ve been embarrassed to tell people what we’re doing when the screens are on and the keys are clicking. 

Well, no more. It’s time to stand up for our craft and our age! 

Get ready to join a writing contest that not only encourages “older” fanfiction authors, but downright has an age gate! That's right- you must be over 30 to join in on the fun!

Why 30? Because 29 7/8th sounded dumb. 

The Storytellers Contest is a new idea, a new challenge, a new way to show off your skills and prove to the youths that age is but a number and things only get better with time. To participate, all authors, artists, and judges must be at least thirty years of age prior to the opening of registration. And what’s more? The characters must be over thirty as well. That’s right. In for a penny...

Each round of The Storytellers Contest will focus on a single actor and any eligible aged characters that they have portrayed. The stories will be gripping and immersive, with impeccable grammar and spot-on characterization. They will be crafted with care and judged by a panel of specially selected fanfiction authors who, not only know the pain of writing, but are - you guessed it - over thirty. 

Once the judges have spoken and the scores have been tabulated, winners will be announced, and prizes will be given out. Yes, prizes! Fandom-specific prizes! Amazing prizes valued at over $1,100! Well, OK, not that much, but they’ll still be really cool. And, everyone who participates will get a badge for their blog and bragging rights for life.

For the inaugural round of The Storytellers Contest, we have chosen the incredible actor, director, singer, and producer Jensen Ackles. You know him from Supernatural, you’re counting down the days till you see him in Countdown, and now you’re gonna win a prize for crafting an epic story around him! 

Head on over to Storytellers Contest: The Jensen Ackles Chronicles to find out more. 

We can’t wait to see you there!

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“Fanfiction isn’t real writing.”

“Why don’t you read a real book?”

“You’re not a teenager, you can’t write fanfic!”

“You’re too old for fandom.”

We’ve all seen posts like these and rolled our eyes. We’ve each had someone hurtfully guffaw at our hobby. Times when we’ve been embarrassed to tell people what we’re doing when the screens are on and the keys are clicking. 

Well, no more. It’s time to stand up for our craft and our age! 

Get ready to join a writing contest that not only encourages “older” fanfiction authors, but downright has an age gate! That's right- you must be over 30 to join in on the fun!

Why 30? Because 29 7/8th sounded dumb. 

The Storytellers Contest is a new idea, a new challenge, a new way to show off your skills and prove to the youths that age is but a number and things only get better with time. To participate, all authors, artists, and judges must be at least thirty years of age prior to the opening of registration. And what’s more? The characters must be over thirty as well. That’s right. In for a penny...

Each round of The Storytellers Contest will focus on a single actor and any eligible aged characters that they have portrayed. The stories will be gripping and immersive, with impeccable grammar and spot-on characterization. They will be crafted with care and judged by a panel of specially selected fanfiction authors who, not only know the pain of writing, but are - you guessed it - over thirty. 

Once the judges have spoken and the scores have been tabulated, winners will be announced, and prizes will be given out. Yes, prizes! Fandom-specific prizes! Amazing prizes valued at over $1,100! Well, OK, not that much, but they’ll still be really cool. And, everyone who participates will get a badge for their blog and bragging rights for life.

For the inaugural round of The Storytellers Contest, we have chosen the incredible actor, director, singer, and producer Jensen Ackles. You know him from Supernatural, you’re counting down the days till you see him in Countdown, and now you’re gonna win a prize for crafting an epic story around him! 

Head on over to Storytellers Contest: The Jensen Ackles Chronicles to find out more. 

We can’t wait to see you there!

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“Fanfiction isn’t real writing.”

“Why don’t you read a real book?”

“You’re not a teenager, you can’t write fanfic!”

“You’re too old for fandom.”

We’ve all seen posts like these and rolled our eyes. We’ve each had someone hurtfully guffaw at our hobby. Times when we’ve been embarrassed to tell people what we’re doing when the screens are on and the keys are clicking. 

Well, no more. It’s time to stand up for our craft and our age! 

Get ready to join a writing contest that not only encourages “older” fanfiction authors, but downright has an age gate! That's right- you must be over 30 to join in on the fun!

Why 30? Because 29 7/8th sounded dumb. 

The Storytellers Contest is a new idea, a new challenge, a new way to show off your skills and prove to the youths that age is but a number and things only get better with time. To participate, all authors, artists, and judges must be at least thirty years of age prior to the opening of registration. And what’s more? The characters must be over thirty as well. That’s right. In for a penny...

Each round of The Storytellers Contest will focus on a single actor and any eligible aged characters that they have portrayed. The stories will be gripping and immersive, with impeccable grammar and spot-on characterization. They will be crafted with care and judged by a panel of specially selected fanfiction authors who, not only know the pain of writing, but are - you guessed it - over thirty. 

Once the judges have spoken and the scores have been tabulated, winners will be announced, and prizes will be given out. Yes, prizes! Fandom-specific prizes! Amazing prizes valued at over $1,100! Well, OK, not that much, but they’ll still be really cool. And, everyone who participates will get a badge for their blog and bragging rights for life.

For the inaugural round of The Storytellers Contest, we have chosen the incredible actor, director, singer, and producer Jensen Ackles. You know him from Supernatural, you’re counting down the days till you see him in Countdown, and now you’re gonna win a prize for crafting an epic story around him! 

Head on over to Storytellers Contest: The Jensen Ackles Chronicles to find out more. 

We can’t wait to see you there!

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Something awesome this way comes... Friday, June 13th.

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Something awesome this way comes... Friday, June 13th.

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Coming Soon

“We are all storytellers. We all live in a network of stories. There isn’t a stronger connection between people than storytelling.”

~Jimmy Neil Smith

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A new kind of contest.

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