Penana Blog - Penana Writing Contest Explained!

Penana Writing Challenge/Contest is originated by our user Theatre Lover in a writing society (Penana Writing Challenge) that she has created.

We realized that hosting and joining writing contests can in fact help writers spark imagination and collect ideas from different perspectives. In addition, participating in writing contests can also help writers to manage their creative flow and maintain the regularity of writing more easily. Therefore, we took one step further and made writing contests one of the core features on Penana with the help of users' feedback.

So far users can create writing contests up to 7 themes including words, sentences, flash fiction, picture, music, serial fiction, and question etc. Penana's writing contests allow unlimited contestants to participate, which is a form of creative collaboration and a great way gather writers to co-write a story anthology.

Here are the badges that can be earned by hosting or participating in contests:

Challenger - If you successfully submitted a contest entry before the submission deadline.

Contest Producer - If you successfully hosted a contest with 3 or more contestants who have successfully submitted their contest entry before the submission deadline.

Contest 1st Place - If your contest entry earned the highest "Like" counts by the Penana community during the contest period.

Contest 2nd Place - If your contest entry earned the second highest "Like" counts by the Penana community during the contest period.

Contest 3rd Place - If your contest entry earned the third highest "Like" counts by the Penana community during the contest period.

There are currently 2 kinds of vetting criteria for Penana Writing Contest:

1. Community Vote - The top 3 contest winners are determined based on the number of "Likes" and the ratio of "Likes" over "Reads" within the contest period.

2. Creator's Pick - The top 3 contest winners are picked by the contest creator/producer once the contest period has ended.

Lastly, don't be discouraged if your contests did not attract participants or if your entry didn't win because the ideas and messages that you are trying to convey in your contest prompt/entry will always inspire someone! Also try to use creative ways to promote your contests!

Stay tuned for our updates and keep up with the creative flow!

Penana

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