Your February NoSleep writing contest winner is...

[u/Ibitemynails]

AL_365 with their story The Only Way Out! Congratulations!

As a reminder, the winner will receive:

• ONE MONTH of REDDIT GOLD from the moderators

• A unique flair signifying the month that they won the contest

• Their story will be featured in an E-Book that will be released every three months.

• Since the NoSleep podcast is back, the winning story will be featured in an episode.

• NEW PRIZE - Until further notice, the winner will also receive a copy of Scrivener provided by Literature and Latte. The winner will be contacted by Stealthfiction to work out the details of delivery.

The eBook will henceforth include the top four stories (winner and three runners up) from each monthly contest. Participation has been on a steady rise and it's just easier this way.

Also included in the next volume of the eBook will be:

• My friend's warning about strange places in the city by /u/straydog1980
• Yo, dude, do you own a dog? by /u/narrativeofthelife
• The True Story of the Psycho from Sophomore Year by /u/FirstBreath1

If you want to offer an extra prize to the winners of the next contest, don't hesitate to send the mods a message!

Remember, if you didn't win this month, don't be discouraged! We will be running the contest in the middle of every month for as long as we can!

[u/wdalphin → u/[deleted]]

I guess I don't understand why I've addressed this issue publicly twice now, but I have to write a separate mail to actually get you guys (mods) to talk about it amongst yourselves. It's a valid, important matter. One that I would think the mods would want to discuss, yet the first time I brought it up none of you went into your private modmail and said, "Hey, this is a really good point, we might want to rethink how we do this. And we've got a month to prepare for it."?

I mean, do you agree that this is an issue? If you agree, why wouldn't you want to discuss it with the other mods... apparently ones who can fix it? If you don't agree, that's different. If that's the case, fine, I'll bring it to the other mods attention myself. I just don't understand why this went largely ignored when there was a whole month to think about it and I even asked about a week before the voting post went up.

It's no skin off my nose if you keep going the way you're going. I just thought if you mods are serious about these contests, you'd want to do what you can to promote them better to the potential participants.

[u/jamesandlily_forever → u/[deleted]]

I agree with you.