Contests, contests, contests

Tis the season for contests it seems. There are currently three new contests running at this time. Below you can read about the contest rules, guidelines, where to send your entries, and the contest hosts. Please visit their sites, spread the word, and follow them on twitter.

The Home Sweet Home Contest

What if Eric lived in your hometown? Or Sookie visited the place where you grew up? Or maybe Jason was dating the girl next door to where you live now? Or Bill seduced the cashier at your local supermarket because she could get him free coupons? Or Amelia turned your hairdresser into a parrot? Or the guy two doors down from you had a dog named Alcide? Or Pam was your local soccer mum? Or, or….

Write us a story about any or all of the SVM characters and put them in a place in which you’ve lived. It can be a country, state, province, city, town, village, or even neighborhood that you’ve called home. What happens there is entirely up to you!

Your hosts are Thyra10 and Suki59 and both of us have sent Sookie and Eric to our own hometowns quite a few times. Now, we’d like to see where you live or used to live.

Please, invite us in – take us to your Home Sweet Home.

Visit The Home Sweet Home's website HERE for more information.

Please follow on twitter @HSHcontest

Happily (N)ever After Contest

Happy endings. We all love ‘em, but they’ve been done. To death. They’ve become predictable, and sometimes a little cliched. As much as we’d like it to happen, happy endings aren’t always possible. Besides, we all know the only real happy endings happen in fairy tales anyway. So, in the spirit of shaking things up and keeping it real, we proudly present the Happily (N)ever After Contest.

This contest is open to all pairings, and pretty much any style of story you want to write. All human, Alternate Universe, Canon…whatever floats your boat, so long as your pairing/main character doesn’t get the much sought after HEA.

Maybe you have an inner angsty side and you want to let her out. Maybe you have never tried writing unhappy things, and you want to stretch your writing muscles a bit. This is about changing it up, going against the grain, trying something different, and it could be a lot of fun to discover what you’re capable of.

Your Hostesses:
Scribeninja
Slacker Dee
Makesmyheadspin

Your Judges:
Chanel Addict
Lubadub
Sapfirerose
Dracodew17
Musing_Mia
Mavrosal
brighteyes1131

For more info, check out:

Tumblr
LiveJournal
sookieverse_lj the Sookieverse
Sapfirerose’s SVM Addiction Blog.
tweet at @HNA_Contest.

Valentine's Fae Tales Contest

Fairy tales usually have happy endings. We all know what has happened in stories like Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, and Snow White. It is usually a lot of romance where the princes come to the rescue.

What happens when the prince is a Viking vampire or Cinderella is actually a telepath? How far can Sookie fall down the rabbit hole before Mad Hatter Eric catches her? What if Sookie fell asleep for 1000 years because of a curse and it took a young Eric to kiss her and break the spell?

Play with your imagination. Be funny or serious. Make it a mystery or an epic fairy tale romance. Whatever you are into, write your own version of a SVM fairy tale.

Happily Ever Afters and Lemons not required but appreciated!

Your Host is: blackdeadorchids (Krystle)

Submissions are accepted beginning: Monday, December 6, 2010 – Friday, January 21, 2011.

Final submission: Friday, January 21, 10 pm PST, 12pm CST.

Final Judging deadline: January 31.

Final Posting to Fanfiction Community: Wednesday, February 2, 6am PST, 8am CST
If links are not received by that time the story will not be included in Public Judging.

Public voting of the Judges top 6: Wednesday, February 2, – Monday, February 7.

Judges
jmurgatroid-98, VALady,
ShadoKat, charhamblin, TheLadyKT, NelBearPig, Mrs.Northman, and donael!

For more information see the official blog:
http://valentinesfaecontest.blogspot.com