SeasonalReads: Contests & Challenges

#1 - Seasons & Stories (Closed)

Welcome!

SeasonalReads presents the first contest that will give you the opportunity to write a story that features one or more seasons. After all, it sets the mood and theme of the story in its own way. So, let's start our journey.

You are summoned to a mansion and right ahead there are five doors representing all five seasons; summer, monsoon, autumn, winter, and spring. Your story depends on which door you will open.

Prompts

◍ SUMMER ◍

You and your friends visit the nearest town every year during summer vacation and have the time of your lives. This year, though, you hear about random incidences of burn, all apparently caused by the sun. Something about the news strikes odd. Will you seek the truth?

◍ MONSOON ◍

The monsoon season was never your favourite. When you were out one day, it began to pour, completely drowning you. You wished for the rain to stop falling, and your request was granted. Now, an enraged god/goddess wants to talk to you about the unexpected change in weather. As if that wasn't terrible enough, you've been tasked with bringing rain back to save the planet.

◍ AUTUMN/FALL ◍

As you walk down the street toward your house, deep red and brown leaves crunch beneath your shoes, an effect of fall. You are so immersed in your thoughts that you fail to notice a car slowing beside you until someone calls your name in a voice that sends a chill down your spine.

◍ WINTER ◍

You wear another overcoat as the weather gets colder before going to visit your grandmother who lives in a village. Your little trip is going well until you notice the changes in the people residing there.

◍ SPRING ◍

While standing on your balcony on a Sunday morning and admiring the newly bloomed flowers, you see one of the flowers transform into a human and recognize them as someone you've known for a long time. However, they only came to visit in the season of spring and now you get why. How will the story continue?

Guidelines

1. Our contest will run from November 1st to December 15th. The deadline is December 15th, 2021 at 23:59 PM EST. Any entries submitted after this time will not be accepted.

2. The word count of your story must be between 1,000 - 2,000 words.

3. Your story should follow Wattpad's Content Guidelines.

4. We are only accepting English entries for this contest.

5. One story submission per user. Entries can be standalone or part of a collection/anthology. However, make sure to provide the chapter link while submitting your entry if your story is part of a collection. Only standalone entries can be featured in our "Contest Winners" reading list.

6. We will accept mature entries for this contest as long as they adhere to Wattpad's Content Guidelines.

7. Entries should be new and original, written for this contest specifically. It must follow one of the given prompts.

8. Please pay attention to spelling, punctuation, and grammar. Creativity and relevance to the prompt will be taken into consideration during judging.

9. Co-written stories are allowed; only one of you can submit it.

How To Submit?

Click on the Carrd link under our profile bio. You will find "Seasons & Stories | Form" there. Submit your entries only via that form. You can also find the form as an external link to this chapter. If you are having any trouble finding the form in any of the mentioned places, feel free to ask us in the comments or you can send us a private message. We would love to help you. However, you are more than welcome to share the link and title of your entries here in the comment section to get exposure and let your fellow participants have a look at your story.

Prizes

◍ Shout-out on the SeasonalReads profile.

◍ A winning sticker.

◍ The winning story(s) will be featured in our "Contest Winners" reading list.

◍ The winning story(s) will be featured in our upcoming Anthology book. However, we won't be featuring mature entries in our anthology book to keep it open for any age groups.

Disclaimer

This entire event was created, prepared, hosted, and will be judged by a group of regular Wattpad users who are passionate about the genre and theme of this profile. This contest is in no way affiliated with Wattpad or its staff so they play no part in any judging processes this event might go through. Our team reserves the right to refuse entries or submissions to this event that do not meet our pre-set required criteria, are inappropriate, are triggering, and/or violate Wattpad's Content Guidelines in any way. Any feedback given is at our discretion but we are not obliged to do so. Any guidelines listed and decisions from the team and judges are final.