Contests

The Scary Short Film Fest: potentially fun, depending on your horror-movie appetite/tolerance? Wes Craven is judging, Studio 360 is hosting, and submissions have to be anywhere from 1 to 30 seconds. You can shoot them “on Vine, Instagram, Super 8, or using any other method to create an original film”…

Space Haiku

“Galactic poet?
 Here’s how to become famous.
 Send your work to Mars!”
 — NPR
 
 Write haiku for the chance to send that haiku into…

Cutthroat Peepery Returns

It’s time again for the Washington Post’s annual Peep Diorama Contest, which as of today has an official winner…

The Morning News’ annual Tournament of Books has begun; may the objectively best book eventually win. (Last year’s winner: The Sisters Brothers.)

Round one, judged by writer and army officer Nathan Bradley, is a threeway: The Yellow Birds versus Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk versus Fobbit.

Jim Behrle Valentines

Previously: Win a Jim Behrle Valentine