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Medium Announced Writers Challenge Worth Of $100,000!
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Just got notified by Medium’s LinkedIn post 👀
Take your laptop and fingers ready to unveil your writing expertise on this writing challenge!
Let’s jump right in what they had to offer.🎉
Writers Challenge for the August 🤑
They are providing four guiding prompts: Reentry, Death, Work, and Space. Each is accompanied by a descriptive paragraph. Your experiences or perspectives might take you down other roads that are well within the parameters of the prompt.
An expert panel of cultural leaders, editors, and writers will join as guest judges to select their favourites. Those judges include Natalie Portman, Roxane Gay, Saeed Jones, and more…..
With the help of the judging panel, Medium will select four finalist winners — one for each prompt — who will each be awarded with $10,000 each. One of the four finalists will be selected for a grand prize of a whopping $50,000. Additionally, 100 honourable mention selections will each win $100.
Sponsored exclusively by Medium Corporation💌
What are those 4 prompts?
1. REENTRY
Tell us about an experience you’ve had coming back to something — or someone — after time away. What changed in your absence? How did you change? What are the funny moments, faux pas, discomforts, and joys that came with returning to an old situation (or your pre-pandemic life) with new eyes?
TAG: MWC Reentry
2. DEATH
People die, of course, but so do other things. Ideals. Relationships. Jobs. Life phases. Pieces of who we once were. Death isn’t always inherently sad, either; sometimes, it’s a positive step, freeing us from what was weighing us down or allowing us to move forward. Illusions can die. Grudges. Bad habits. Tell us about a death you’ve experienced, for better or worse, and how you marked the loss — whether it was with mourning or celebration.
TAG: MWC Death
3. WORK
“Work” is a term that contains multitudes. Maybe your work is a key pillar of your identity. Maybe it’s the thing that allows you to focus on other pursuits. Maybe it fulfils you; maybe it drains you. Maybe the real work in your life isn’t the same as the way you make money. We want to know what “work” means to you — and the factors that have shaped your thinking. What’s the most important work you do, however you define it? What’s the value of work in your life? What’s your dream job? Is there such a thing as a dream job? Is there a moment, a person, a role that’s changed the way you approach your work?
TAG: MWC Work
4. SPACE
Whether we’re letting our imaginations run wild or focusing on what’s in front of us, our day-to-day lives are defined by space: living space, personal space, outer space. We make space. We claim space. We practice social distancing. We turn spaces into homes, into communities, into refuges, and we forge relationships with others and ourselves within those spaces. We wonder, with varying degrees of skepticism and belief, about the beings that occupy the space beyond our planet. However you define it, tell us a story about a role space has played in your life.
TAG: MWC Space
How to enter into the challenge?
Entering the challenge is easy: Just write to one — or more — of the writing prompts outlined below, and include the associated tag when publishing your story on Medium.
Any rules to be followed?
There will be four writing prompts made available at the start of the Contest Period. To enter: (i) log into your Medium account; (ii) publish an essay of 500 words or more in response to a prompt; and (iii) tag the essay with that prompt (i.e. MWC Reentry, MWC Death, MWC Work, MWC Space).
- One entry per person per prompt and four entries total during Contest Period.
- Submissions will be scored based on: (i) creativity (40%); (ii) originality (30%); and (iii) writing quality (30%) by September 23, 2021.
- Submissions must comply with the Medium Rules and meet Medium’s Distribution Standards. Contest subject to Official Rules. Details and restrictions apply, so visit here for Official Rules.
Time period for the contest and results
The time of entry. “Contest Period” is from 12:00:01 a.m. ET on 07/28/21 to 11:59:59 p.m. ET on 08/24/21.
The deadline to publish your work is August 24, 2021. The four finalists will be announced on September 21, 2021, followed by the grand prize recipient announcement on September 23, 2021.
Why wait?
The writer's challenge is already out and the clock is ticking which may be your prime time now.
Think this would bunk the vocal’s attractive challenge and a huge boom in the writing industry that can make many lives better.
Start writing wisely, since there are a huge number of writers on the platform — judged by experts!
Let’s create and revolutionize through our thought-provoking response prompts💥
Cheers!!!🥂
All the best to all!!!🤝🏻
Check out the article published by them in 3 min read to know more about the judging panel.
