Innovative Xpression Creative Writing and Video Competition
Call for SUBMISSIONS
Register by May 25, 2019
All top prizes include varying scholarships applied to full tuition to attend 2019 DIGIVATIONS Camp Demigod and publication on the DIGIVATIONS Camp Demigod Innovative Xpression Channel.
First Prize: $500
Second Prize: $250 Third Prize: $100 Honorable Mention: $50
DIGIVATIONS Camp Demigod’s Camp Half-Blood, Harry Potter and Camp Fandom are pleased to announce the Third Annual Innovative Xpression Creative Writing and Video Competition.
This international fiction writing contest is sponsored by NASA award winning DIGIVATIONS CAMP DEMIGOD INSTITUTE and is split into two age categories: grades 4-7 and grades 8-12.
Deadlines:
Entries must be submitted through email anytime before May 25, 2019.
Guidelines:
Anonymous competition: your name must appear ONLY on the cover page.
Students from grades 4-7 should submit between 500 and 2000 word stories, plays or video scripts.
Students from grades 8-12 should submit between 1000 and 3000 word stories, plays or video scripts.
Video Submission Alternatives:
As an alternative to written expression students may submit an original video trailer, story, or play with original mixed media art not to exceed 3 minutes with an accompanying script for consideration.
The judges invite creative writing and/or short video in the following genres: SF/Fantasy (speculative fiction), Steampunk (Re-imagining the Victorian Age with futuristic technologies), Mythologies from different cultures (Middle-earth to Ancient Asian influences through the elements) and Dystopian Societies (Hunger Games, Divergent Trilogy).
The judges are open to mainstream and traditional works of historical knowledge, including memoirs, narratives, compilations of documents or compositions, creative nonfiction, and other dynamic literary styles and genres.
How to Submit:
All submissions must be submitted via email to steve@demigodinstitute.org Submitting students must receive parental permission.
The judging criteria includes 50% for concept originality. Writing style and video production and artistic quality are important elements to the judges. The new work may be inspired by preexisting audio, video or written materials or characters, but must be original and may not contain any third party copyrighted or trademarked materials or characters. All creators, authors, and videographers must own all copyrights in all works submitted. No third party music can be used in the videos.
DIGIVATIONS would be granted a royalty free right to distribute and publish the stories and broadcast the videos in any and all media now known or hereinafter developed on a worldwide basis. No additional compensation will be provided to the submitting students. The judges my withhold prizes if in their opinion no submission merits the award.
Below is the page that provides a way to pay for contest entry fees by using PayPal or a credit card. Each submission requires $20 registration fee, so if you choose to submit two different works, there would be a $40 fee. Please fill out the form below and then click on the PayPal button to finish your entry form process. steve@demigodinstitute.org
Innovative Xpression Creative Writing and Video Competition
