S&S Invitational: April Fools Edition

🕺 Welcome to the Scholar and Scribe Invitational 🕺

The Invitational is our bi-weekly, super-duper, writing contest. It is where we match quills and draw blood all for the sake of the craft. We all know a 'friendly' competition never hurts anyone, much, especially when it can be used as a platform to improve your writing. 🙌

---

🧹 HOUSEKEEPING 🧹

Only two winners this week. Our other participants didn't meet the word count limit, unfortunately. Remember that this contest is intended to test your quill folks. Try to challenge yourselves and keep with the prescribed guidelines.

---

🥳 Last Invitational Winners 🥳

🥇 Gold: 50 SCHOLAR, 3 SCRIBE, 2 HSBI, 300 Ecency points
@wrestlingdesires with A Powerful Alliance

Tukar crawled closer, aiming for a thick patch of brush. He reached it unnoticed, and hid. He slowly prepared his shot, but didn't pull back on the bowstring. "Aspen is going to drive him towards me. If I stay here, I can get a perfect shot," he thought.

---

🥈 Silver: 40 SCHOLAR, 2 SCRIBE, 1 HSBI, 200 Ecency points
@Loveth97 with Treacherous lover

Princess Tatiana was the only daughter of King Jamar of the Pamatine tribe. They were a tribe known for their beautiful pink skin and exquisite bodily features. The Kingdom was richly blessed with herbalists, healers, and other gifted people, but princess Tatiana was the most special. She had a skin that glowed even at night, her hair was silky, and it was known to possess healing powers. She could raise dead beings just by touching them, and she could speak to creatures of the forest.

🧐 Rules of Engagement 🧐

• Entries must adhere to the genre AND thematic prompt;
• Entries must be between 750 and 1500 words.
  Note: this does not include any intro/footer text.
• You must post your entry in Scholar and Scribe and use the #scholarandscribe tag;
• Deadline for submission is Wednesday, 17th of April (23.59, GMT + 01);
• All languages are welcome but MUST include an English translation;
• Link your entry in the comment section below; ⏬

🤑 Prizes and Goodies 🤑

The winners will be announced in two weeks. Winners of what? An astute question. The prizes are as follows:

🥇 Gold: 50 SCHOLAR, 3 SCRIBE, 2 HSBI, 300 Ecency points
🥈 Silver: 40 SCHOLAR, 2 SCRIBE, 1 HSBI, 200 Ecency points
🥉 Bronze: 30 SCHOLAR, 1 SCRIBE, 100 Ecency points
🎖️ Runner(s) Up: 15 SCHOLAR, other goodies

IN ADDITION- Each participant will get a modest review of their work from the modding team. With the additional opportunity of getting an in-depth critical review if they so choose. 🙂

🤺 Genre and Theme 🤺

The story you submit MUST adhere to the following prompts:

🎥 Genre: COMEDY
🤹 Theme: MASQUERADE

It's the month of laughter and joy! And thus far, in all the time of this contest's existence, we haven't had a comedy competition. In my country, April Fools is known as the Day of Masks. Sorta like Holloween. And from my understanding other countries have this custom as well, so the theme seemed fitting. There are many ways you can play around with this genre/theme combo, and I am excited to read ya'll's interpretations. 😁

May the odds - and your creative energy - be ever in your favor!

We'd like to give out a big shout-out and thank you to Ecency for sponsoring this contest! 🤗

A big thank you to @melinda010100 as well for the seamless communication.

Check out the Ecency front-end and/or mobile app for more information on how to use your points.

Check out our 2023 Scribe of the Year

▶️ | Post | Profile | ◀️

Read The 2023 Scribe Spotlights

SCRIBE	SPOTLIGHT
esther-emmanuel	READ
whywhy	READ
rak7	READ
gracepro	READ
justclickindiva	READ
jhymi	READ
mellindor	READ

About the Scholar and Scribe Community

Scholar and Scribe is a creative writing community founded in the forges of Hive's passionate Pizza Guild. It sets itself apart from some of the other writing groups on Hive with its unique dual-token system.

The Scholar and Scribe banner icons were designed by trashyomen. The cover image was designed by @jfuji.