Community Writing Site Protagonize Launches Winter Writing Challenge

By Jason Boog 

protago.jpgAs the world heads home for the holidays, the community writing site Protagonize has sponsored a Winter Challenge–challenging its authors to produce short works around the theme of “kindness.”

The winner will take home a free “Plus Subscription” to the free website. This month, the community-oriented writing site with a shoe-string budget counted 10,000 authors, doubling in size in six months. Earlier this year, it was one of the five finalists in the Community category at the SXSW festival.

Here’s more about the contest: “Any registered Protagonize member can enter the competition. All entries need to, in some way, relate to the subject of kindness. Only prose is allowed, no poetry … Stories entered in the contest must be solo, no collaboratives this time. All stories entered must be tagged ‘Winter Challenge’ (remember the quotes!). Only new stories (posted after this blog post) will be considered. Please don’t tag your old stuff or we’ll just un-tag it. However, deleting an old, orphaned entry and reposting it for the competition is fine. Multiple entries are fine if you so desire, as long as you adhere to all of the other entry rules.”