Hello everyone. @Kingst here with winners announcement for the STACH Short Story contest #23.
The Twenty Third edition of the STACH Short Story Contest has ended and we have our winners.
The contest is a 199 word contest with the topic, A BLOOD RED SKY.
ENTRIES.
The contest was well received and the participation impressive. We had a total of 161 entries, all very nice stories but 5 had to be picked.
The winners of the Twenty-Third STACH Short Story Contest are:-
Fifth place winner:
Here is your prize:
Fourth place winner:
Here is your prize:
Third place winner:
Here is your prize:
Second place winner:
Here is your prize:
First place winner:
Here is your prize:
SELECTION PROCESS.
The selection criteria was based on the topic, story plot, number of words, delivery and judges decision. Though it was hard selecting from the various entries, we had to settle for these 5. Judge was @Gee1.
This is thanking everyone that participated, you all are winners.
Disagree with winner selection? Make your case in the comment section.
NEXT CONTEST.
The next contest will start soon. So stay tuned and bring it on!
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Congratulations everyone. You all are all winners. Keep doing all you do here @stach cum @ejemai.
Keep discovering stars!!!
Congratulations to all the winners, I'm glad I came through on this one
Wawwuuu. I don't think judge went through all the submissions. Either that or the judge does not have proper understanding of the English language or creative writing. The submissions above are woefully inadequate to merit winning this contest. I read through most of the submissions and I was wowed by some amazing entries. I'm surprised none of them are here at all. Look at the winner of this contest for instance. His plot is sooo weak it borders on irrelevance to the subject matter. This is in addition to several grammatical errors in the submission.
Imagine
_ 1st runner up: "regular route I go everyday
The fourth and fifth place submissions were absolutely poor. They just put red just to have an affiliation with the concept. Their story line was not tailored or even creative. Mehn, I'm disappointed o. Kileleyi bayii?
Hi, judges are humans as you are and what is a good story to them may not be the same to you. On this contest we respect our selected judges decision and will not support your utterances of incompetence on their part.
Bear in mind, everyone is entiltled to their opinions and we have to respect our judges.
@ejemai, with all due respect to the judge, this is not just any random story. There were laid down rules and guidelines and even a theme for the story. The criteria for winning was based on due diligence of these guidelines. But purely from an objective point of view this result was not properly examined. I mean, I don't know why more people are not objecting because it's very obvious to me. But like you said, we all have our own opinions and this is just the opinion of one concerned steemian. I just thought that since this exercise was aimed at sponsoring and encouraging creativity, we would actually pay more attention to actual creativity.
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That said, I appreciate the judge's effort. It's not easy "marking that many scripts". Weare all grateful for the steps @stach is taking to "ginger" us in this platform. Bravo!
Congrats to the winners and congrats to @Stach for consistency in stories series
Dear friend! Next time also use #wafrica and follow @wafrica to get an upvote on your quality posts!
Congrats to all
congratulations to all the winners!
@stach - Thank-you for hosting a great contest.
Congratulations to all the winners!
Thank you for picking me 2nd ... At first I was going to write the story of the sailor but I am more of a mountain man :) I guess... God Bless You All.. Peace and Love.
Thank you so much! Congrats to the other winners too.
Thanks for picking me as a winner.
I don't really know how winners are selected, but the selection process is so faulty. I mean, when assessing a writing, we put in consideration the plot, vocabulary, and other structures. These selected pieces are far from standard. I wouldn't say the judges are Biased, or anything, I think maybe the judges couldn't read through all the stories, thereby settling for what they deem acceptable. A proper author should be put in place to assess these writing. I just read through all the stories, and if I were to be the judge, none qualifies for a fifth place.
I could pick out grammatical errors so easily. I think we need a better judge for this contest. Even the first price winner made at least three mistakes, and I think we need to be strict with the assessment to make this writing contest very competitive.
If I am being frank and blunt, I would say the judges need to be changed. Maybe make someone not from the stach community a judge, an expert in creative writing.
Hi, judges are humans as you are and what is a good story to them may not be the same to you. On this contest we respect our selected judges decision and will not support your utterances of incompetence on their part.
Bear in mind, everyone is entitled to their opinions and we have to respect our judges.
I strongly believe there are no experts anywhere that can truly satisfy us all.
Disagree with winner selection? Make your case in the comment section.
That was stated in the post. I just made my case.
ok, lets get this straight.
https://prowritingaid.com/en/Analysis/WebEditor/Go?redirectToDocs=true
This link above, can be used to access writing, I think it might come handy to the judges. Its for professional writers, and I use it often and many professional writers and authors use it frequently. It can easily tell which stories are properly structured. All the judges have to do is pick out the best stories. If this helps.
Congratulat everyone
Thank u @stach
Congratulations to all the winners!. Thank u @stach
Congratulations to all the winners