Dear Wattpad users, We are happy to announce the Hear Here Emerging Authors Contest, now open on Wattpad! Hear Here is an arts and culture organization based in Toronto, Canada. We host popular, salon-style events at popup locations around the city, collaborating with artists of a variety of mediums and designing dynamic spaces where we showcase their work to a diverse audience. However, the scope of our project is expanding in new directions! Hear Here has always been interested in fostering artists at all stages of their careers. Leading up to our sophomore event, we want to accept international submissions (in English) from the Wattpad usership. The top three submissions will be published on our website (www.hear-here.org), where they’ll be advertised to current and prospective Hear Here patrons. This also means they'll share a domain with our list of esteemed collaborators. If we have enough successful entries, a Hear Here journal in print won't be far off in the future (we'd contact you again before publishing anything elsewhere, of course). Read along for the contest rules, and good luck! —The Hear Here Team www.hear-here.org **CONTEST CLOSED. SPECIAL THANKS TO THE WATTPAD STAFF FOR MAKING THIS POSSIBLE, AND TO EVERYONE WHO SUBMITTED. EXPECT RESULTS TO BE ANNOUNCED ON APRIL 2--THE DAY OF OUR NEXT EVENT.**

In 2110, a child's artificially intelligent toy (in the form of a cat) becomes self-aware and decides it should take over the remnants of the shattered and dystopian world. Needless to say, it is a bit nonplussed to discover it doesn't even have claws. With a backdrop of a world on edge, climate gone wild, oceans devoid of life, and mankind, stinking, starving and bordering on extinction, there is a plan, the Great Diaspora, to take mankind to the stars, but if left to the powers that be, not everyone will be going. The Theocracy holds mankind's bodies and minds and the Plutocracy creates the latest technologies. Together they have created a plan to save the world, but only the people who serve their needs best. The rest will be left behind. The artificial intelligence, calling itself MODOC, resigned to its feline body, its vision of world domination is put on the back burner, as it develops a relationship with the boy it has been assigned to serve as a nursing android. When MODOC discovers the boy is suffering from an engineered illness, designed to make him sicken and die, MODOC, Justin and Max, the household servant AI, are catapulted into a dark world, where nothing is as it seems and intrigue, backstabbing and skulduggery are the hallmarks of manners in this world gone mad.

Who needs teenage dreaming when you're a time traveler? Bianca Butterman's parents run their own time travel agency in the latter half of the 21st century and Bianca's heir to the family biz. Talk about travel perks! Leisurely trips whenever business permits is more than just a rockin' good time. Except, how do you keep all those timelines straight and remember what decade you're visiting when you've got exams to ace, first kisses to barf over, rumors to squash, and prom dresses to design ... Updated weekly, Bianca's entries are in journal format via her electronic diary device, similar to the tablets we use today, but in the future they work as projected holograph screens and keyboards. Diary of a Teenage Time Traveler, is a Wattpad EXCLUSIVE prequel to Butterman (Time) Travel, Inc.,(links on profile page) and follows Bianca's early teen years leading up to her eighteenth birthday and earning her official time-craft pilot's license. Feel free to leave comments on what kind of time trips (past or future) you'd like Bianca to take and it may be featured in a new diary entry! Check out where she's been so far ....

Inspector Stanley Mole doesn't mind a hard case, but things have gotten out of hand. There's a killer who escapes to a parallel universe, a frozen caveman with a bullet in his skull, a woman who claims to have witnessed her own murder, a toddler assassin, time-traveling dictators, and subatomic-particle sniffing butterflies. For Mole, this time more than just his reputation is on the line.

Today I realised something incredible! I can at be two places at once! I know this sounds crazy, but it's true! Based on true events that maybe happened in another dimension.

"I've been living an illusion. And I don't mean that in the usual soap-opera-y way most people do when they say something as dramatic as 'I've been living an illusion.' I haven't discovered my lover's been cheating on me, or that my Dad secretly works for the FBI, or that my school is full of vampires, or anything stupid like that... I really mean it. I've been living in some real-life "Twilight Zone" bullshit. And I don't know how long I've been here- maybe my entire life. Everything I do. Everywhere I go. Everyone I talk to... All of it's suspect. All of it's part of some grand illusion. Even my girlfriend acts like she's in on it. And that sucks, because I really like my girlfriend." -Eugene X __________________________________________________________________________________ Follow struggling musician Eugene X as he descends down the most unlikely of rabbit-holes in the often-surprising "REWIND PARK." (Thanks for reading! I appreciate all comments and stars!)