Bon Voyage Contest - Stories of Travel and Exploration
Summer is a time for vacations, travel, and new beginnings. What a better time for writing stories about new places and the new experiences, memories, and self-discovery that come along with them. We want to hear your stories about journeys to a different setting: summer vacation romances, steamy explorations of underground sex clubs, foreign planets, time travel, etc. We want to read your fish out of water tales. Wherever your story takes you, we want to join you and your characters on that journey.
This contest will be a FLASH contest, meaning you only need to submit one episode to enter. This contest will run for two weeks, so don’t worry about having all your ideas fleshed out. Just write what feels fun to write and we’ll love reading it. You may submit as many first episodes as you like.
To submit a story to the contest, post one episode publicly on the app by 24:00 a.m. on July 22th (PDT) and use the hashtag #22bvcontest.
Stories will be judged by the Maybe team and the winners will be announced on July 27th.
All participants will receive 30 diamonds. You can submit more than one story, but diamond rewards will be given only once for each writer. In addition to the diamonds, winning stories will also be featured on the Maybe app.
Browse the Maybe Forum for how-to guides from the app, as well as notes from the editor on best practices for writing great interactive stories.
Some ideas:
- Consider trying a short story. How might you tell a full story in only 10 episodes? How about in 5? Challenging yourself to find just the meat of your story can be a great creative challenge, and a fun one, too.
- Consider how you can use your first episode to really pack a punch. How will the reader know this new world and these new characters in the first handful of lines? By the end of the first episode, try to make sure your reader can answer who, where, and why.
- Two weeks is not much time, so don’t overthink it! Some of the best writing comes from spontaneity.
We look forward to reading your submissions!
The Maybe team
Resources
FAQ, including our policy on in-app fanfiction
Detailed How-tos (requires sign-in)
Notes from the Editor (requires sign-in)
Important Notes
To qualify for the contest, your novel and episodes should remain public during and after the contest period.
Plagiarism or any other problematic content is not tolerated. You are legally responsible for your content.
Your participation and winning rewards will be revoked if your content or actions do not comply with Maybe's policy, including but not limited to Maybe's terms and conditions, content guidelines, the tool guide, and all instructions announced on Maybe Forum.
Winning stories may be used for Maybe's marketing creatives.
Participation rewards are viewable in the app.
You are responsible for reading and complying with the notes in this announcement.
Event details may change for unforeseen reasons, without prior notice.
This post has been edited on 7/22 to change the end date & winner announcement date from 7/15 and 7/20 to 7/22 and 7/27 respectively. The changes in dates are due to the log-in issues with the app post update.