Culture Committee

Turbeaux

Caracasus

So as for the writing contest - this is what I've put together so far...

Forestian Autumnal Writing Contest

Welcome! Forest is proud to announce its first writing contest! Judged by a panel of three Forestians, this writing contest will consist of a two category challenge - nations are free to enter one or both categories - with a winner, runner up and up to three honorable mentions in each category.

The Categories

There are two categories. Prose and Poetry. Applicants may enter one or both categories - although obviously not with the same piece of writing!

The prompt

The prompt is simple.

Leaves

It is up to the writer to interpret this however they wish.

Judging

Entries will be judged on the following criteria: Construction of the text, interesting interpretations of the prompt and finally engaging ideas.

Spelling, punctuation and grammar will not officially be judged as we have many members who do not have English as a first language or may wish to use colloquial expressions in their work, however it will be taken into account when looking at the other criteria. If your submission is particularly full of errors to the point it makes the text indecipherable or hard to follow, your submission will likely not score as highly or possibly be rejected.

The Judges

The panel will consist of Caracasus, The New Bluestocking Homeland and Zwangzug - all experienced issue editors. As an aside, the kind of skills needed to succeed in this competition are rather similar to the skills needed to write good issues. If, after submission you have found that you've enjoyed the process, please consider checking out the Got Issues? forum and contributing there!

Entering the contest

Entries can be TG'd to any of the judges. Entries will open on Monday 22nd October and close on Thursday 22nd November. There will be a two week period set aside for judging, with the winners announced on Friday 7th December.

Embassy regions

This contest is open to all Forestians and any nations residing in regions that Forest maintains an embassy with.

A reminder...

Nationstates as a website does have certain rules surrounding offensive material. From the Moderation sticky:

Offensive Material: As mentioned previously, we use the US movie rating "PG-13" standard. Mild swearing may be tolerated, mild sexuality may be hinted, but explicit or excessive versions of either or both will result in moderation intervention.

Bear in mind this would cover Telegrams too.

Mozworld

The Grow-a-Plant event states that it is to end in the first week of October, which we have now passed.
Since we don't currently have an official culture minister does someone want to wrap this up.

Uan-aa-Boa

Mozworld It's @TheCypherNine 's thing, so it's their call.

Uan-aa-Boa

I've had a message from Siwale in TNP suggesting an event we could jointly host. Their term as delegate runs until January. Any thoughts, or ideas as to what that might be?

Turbeaux

Uan-aa-Boa The issue writing workshop?

Mount Seymour

Could be a WA thing? I know we share that in common.

Turbeaux

Mount Seymour Proposal writing workshop?

Uan-aa-Boa

Turbeaux What would that look like in practice? One or more people sharing their tips and secrets? Writing a communal proposal?

Caracasus

Just a heads up but I will start posting and promoting the creative writing contest from Monday. I have put together a dispatch and will be sending it out and about.

Turbeaux

Uan-aa-Boa Both?

Siwale

I've always thought an issue writing workshop would attract a lot of attention. I did a small poll in TNP when we were first considering this idea with Forest, and there seemed to be a great deal of interest. An event like this though will rely heavily on contributions from regular issue writers/editors of Forest, so I understand if it's not feasible. TNP unfortunately doesn't have a ton of established issue writers currently who could help out.

Turbeaux

Siwale Forest does. @Caracasus is currently an issue editor and I know that @Ransium has quite a bit of experience both creating and editing issues. Also, Sapnu Puas just got an issue accepted. I am pretty sure that I am missing many others too.

Mount Seymour

Turbeaux CWA, Zwangzug, Bluestocking, are all editors too ?

Uan-aa-Boa

We have an even larger number of issues authors, though I'm not going to attempt a list as I'll inevitably offend by forgetting someone. OK then, it sounds as if this should focus on issues rather than on the WA. It's not an area I know much about, so can anyone give us some suggestions about what such an event would, in practice, look like?

It also sounds as if this shouldn't start until at least late November to avoid overloading our 3 editors who will be judging Forest's creative writing contest.

Siwale

Uan-aa-Boa Late November would be fine with TNP. We are willing to work with the issue editor's/author's busy schedules.

Uan-aa-Boa

So last time an issue writing workshop was proposed was there any more specific planning? Are we talking multiple discussion threads on issue related topics? Are we going to collectively write an issue? Or what?

Siwale

Uan-aa-Boa Collectively writing an issue would be really cool! Perhaps we can have a series of lectures by issue author/editors leading up to the collective issue.

Uan-aa-Boa

Siwale OK, I've TGed Forest's issue editors to sound them out re the idea. Is there anyone in TNP with similar expertise?

Siwale

Uan-aa-Boa Thank you! Not that I know of in TNP. We have a few one-time authors but that's just about it. I'm hoping that this event will encourage TNPers to write more.

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