New Year - New Contest - Winners Announced!

Mar 22, 201731 min read

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Understood-Accepted

MagicalJoey

Published: Mar 22, 2017

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Our "Creed"

Hello, you've reached a quiet place, a place where you can bare your heart or simply share your soul. We are all like you - problems and pain haunt and hurt us as they do you. We don't all have the same things that consume us, but still we understand your ghosts and the trouble you face daily hurt you deeply, as ours do to us. We know pain. We try help you face it. If you remember one thing about this place, remember this: No matter what you are living or have lived through, you are accepted.

YOU. ARE. ACCEPTED

Welcome to Understood-Accepted's

The judges have finished judging and the polls have all been tallied and the results are in. Read on to find out who were the winners of this year's New Beginning's Contest!

Theme and Information

The theme for this contest was "New Beginnings".

Our entrants were:
Amarantheans (literature) and LualaDy (artist)
DAGAIZM (literature) and LabyrinthLiz89 (artist)
nothing-creative (literature) and SuperPandaGem (artist)
1999317 (literature) and Filosodrag (artist)
R-R-Eco (literature) and Jorgipie (artist)
MeFlysBySeatOfPants (literature) and EyeOfTheKat (artist)
bebe0215 (literature) and BlackSpiralDancer1 (artist)
WhiskeyDreamer (literature) and AnnaBelial (artist)
Malintra-Shadowmoon (literature) and MikeyMao (artist)
Aurora-Mandeville (literature) and Yatsukisamada (artist)
EliasRedfield (literature) and sango135dslayer (artist)
ShinyScribe (literature) and Toyona (artist)
randomMeAndBob (literature) and weiyang (artist)
spockliveson (literature) and zoori326 (artist)
Startoucher (literature)
WindMeister8 (literature) and Frappe7 (artist)

The Winners Are

Re:GenerationWhy do the birds go on singing?
The sweet feminine voice crooned from some broken recording device within the hearts of the desolate city, its only audience that of a slender form draped in a dark cape. As the slightly distorted sound filtered through his ears, the language was parsed instantaneously into his native language. Without so much as a pause, he continued forward, his liquid-like form sliding over the ground smoothly. Turning once to the left and then the right, he took in his surroundings with nary an expression on his silver-colored face. His single grey eye never blinked, roving around as he moved through the empty streets.
He was not a being of this planet and so his stay would be brief. He had only set foot on this foreign territory because of a calling. A calling that had awoken not only him, but others from different sections of the universe. It was a call that needed answering and so, he had left his home planet immediately to travel to this distant land.

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Hope, fullCrescent moons, bloody the palms
Lungs crushing, deflating pain
Shivering, shaking, fearing
Salt water, dripping downward
No hope
Hopeless
Lesshope
Hope, no
Clenched fists, release
Hyperventilating, slows
Panic, breathe deeply
Salt water, seeps into the soul
Hopefull
Hoping
Hope, full
of Hope
Hands will heal
Lungs inhale
Breathing in
Soul revived

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Congratulations to all winners and all who participated. It really came down to the poll points, as there were only six points separating first place from honorable mention. To those who didn't place, don't give up hope! Enter contests, as many as you are physically able, for the exposure and the knowledge of yourself and your craft that comes from them. If you place, bonus, but you've still learned something at the end of the day.

Also, stay tuned for Amarantheans 's collaborative contest coming this May/June. If you didn't place in this one, try hers out. It's exactly the same concept (I ~~stole~~ borrowed it from her) with a writer paired with an artist. Spin things around, get a new pair, keep the same pair if you work well together. Most importantly, you'll never stand a chance of winning if you don't enter.

Judges

Your judges were:

( MagicalJoey )

( ForeverEvanescent )

( MichelxPuabi )

( TheMagnificentMorado )

Thank you to my fellow judges, this would have been impossible without you! I hope to work with you again next year when I host this again.