Short Story Contest 2015 Rules and Themes

[eris]

Judgement deferred for 24 hours. Primary judge in hospital and offline for 24 hours for a test. Winners announced June 15 instead.

[eris]

And the 2015 Creative Writing Contest is now over! People's Choice winner, along with first and second place winners, to be announced June 14th! This allows our judges to read, discuss, review and decide in a timely manner as well as a review of the polling process. Thank you to everyone who submitted, and to those who voted as well! Good luck to everyone!

[eris]

Note: Due to error on my part in answering Number005's question previously, 4 submissions will be added to the People's Choice Poll. As there were announcements on
Twitter, where up to date information is imparted (as mentioned in the rules!) these four stories are not eligible for judging. Yes, I made a mistake, but so did you for not following all the rules(IE following Twitter.) Stories submitted past this "2nd deadline" are not eligible for poll or judging. Do not ask, don't send any more, thank you. My decision is final.

[eris]

Short Story Contest 2015 at DEF CON 23 has now closed. Thank you for all your submissions and good luck to all of you! People's Choice Poll will open within 24 hours for voting and will stay open for a total of 7 days. All winners to be announced at close of poll.

[eris]

It's the final countdown! (Everybody needs a montage.)

timeanddate dot com/countdown/to?msg=Contest&p0=127&year=2015&month=6&day=1&hour =0&min=0&sec=0

[eris]

Link added to show exact end date instead of words to explain....see next post

[number006]

Sorry to be obtuse or ignorant about how to tell time but is the deadline "will close Monday, June 1st, 2015, 00:00(midnight) LOCAL LAS VEGAS, NV, TIME ZONE" the midnight that occurs between Sunday May 31 and Monday June 1 or the one at the end of June 1 before June 2 begins?

[FOXX]

All done, me and Princess have submitted our story to the e-mail at the top. We hope you have as much fun reading it as we had writing it. Please let us know if you either don't get the submission or have any problems with the file. :)

[eris]

Two more stories, including an entry all the way from the Ukraine! Way to go!

Keep em coming folks, time is slip, slip, slipping away!

[FOXX]

Sorry it's taking us so long, but me and princess are furiously burning our story out. :) Almost done.

[geeksedition]

Hoping to get one in!! Just having a little writers block at the moment...

[eris]

We have received our first entry to DC23 Short Story contest! All the way from New Zealand! How is your entry coming along? Deadline is fast approaching!

[eris]

Oh, I had no idea that happened. Thanks.

[TheCotMan]

"People were declared outlaws and they were cast out of the community…. Outside the law in the countries they came from—I don't think they were trying to be outlaws . . . I was never trying, necessarily, to be an outlaw. It was just the place in which I found myself. By the time I started DEF CON I was riding with them and it was clear that it was no longer possible for me to go back and live within the law. Between EFF and PRISM—a whole generation was criminalized in that time. You realize that you are subject to being busted. A lot of people grew up with that attitude. There were a lot more outlaws than me. I was just a computer geek. I wasn't trying to be an outlaw hacker. I never heard of that term; somebody else made it up. But we were all outside the law: Dmitry Sklyarov, Kevin Mitnick, Aaron Swartz ; I didn't have a gauge as to who was the worst outlaw. I just recognized allies: my people."
-Unabashedly Parodied from an original quote by Hunter S Thompson, just for fun.

Hey. You. Yes, you. In the black tshirt, sitting in the dark. And you! The one with the Arduino powered, LED hula hoop! ARE YOU WRITING YET? You should be!
An exercise to get your creative juices flowing would be to take a well known paragraph or quote, and re-write it, with the theme and culture of DEF CON instead! Three more months(approximately) until submission and judging, lets go people!



https://forum.defcon.org/forum/defco...e-announcement

A side-effect of multiple themes including a light and dark theme is selecting a dark font on a light theme works in the light theme, but does not work in the dark theme. I've replied to your post, leaving your post as-is, but removing the color tags so the font will auto-adopt the theme's default font color for its text. The above quoted text should be readable in all themes/styles we have.

[eris]

"People were declared outlaws and they were cast out of the community…. Outside the law in the countries they came from—I don't think they were trying to be outlaws . . . I was never trying, necessarily, to be an outlaw. It was just the place in which I found myself. By the time I started DEF CON I was riding with them and it was clear that it was no longer possible for me to go back and live within the law. Between EFF and PRISM—a whole generation was criminalized in that time. You realize that you are subject to being busted. A lot of people grew up with that attitude. There were a lot more outlaws than me. I was just a computer geek. I wasn't trying to be an outlaw hacker. I never heard of that term; somebody else made it up. But we were all outside the law: Dmitry Sklyarov, Kevin Mitnick, Aaron Swartz ; I didn't have a gauge as to who was the worst outlaw. I just recognized allies: my people."
-Unabashedly Parodied from an original quote by Hunter S Thompson, just for fun.

Hey. You. Yes, you. In the black tshirt, sitting in the dark. And you! The one with the Arduino powered, LED hula hoop! ARE YOU WRITING YET? You should be!
An exercise to get your creative juices flowing would be to take a well known paragraph or quote, and re-write it, with the theme and culture of DEF CON instead! Three more months(approximately) until submission and judging, lets go people!



https://forum.defcon.org/forum/defco...e-announcement