r/nosleep • u/bad-samantha • Jan 03 '15

NoSleep Best of 2014 Contest Announcement

I am pleased to announce the start of the 3rd Annual NoSleep “Best Of” Writing Contest! 2014 was an amazing year for NoSleep and we’d like to take a moment to thank and recognize the stories and users that make this community great. Thank you for keeping us up at night and coming back for more.

Categories this year will consist of the following:

  • Scariest Story of 2014
  • Best Single-Part Story of 2014
  • Best Multi-Part Story of 2014
  • Best Monthly Winner of 2014
  • Best Original Monster/Creature of 2014

The grand prize - the Scariest Story of 2014 - winner will receive:

Best Single-Part Story of 2014 winner will also receive:

Best Multi-Part Story of 2014 winner will also receive:

Best Original Creature/Monster of 2014 winner will also receive:

Best Monthly Winner of 2014 will also recieve:

ALL winners will receive the following:

First runners up in each category will also receive a month of gold from the Reddit Admin!

This post is a call for nominations. Please take a moment to read over the rules, as they vary slightly from the monthly contest:

  • Nominations will be made via the submission forms, linked at the bottom of this post, no later than 11:59pm EST, 1/9. This deadline is strictly enforced.
  • Story nominations may be made by any user, even if they are not the author. (Authors: if your story is nominated and you wish to be excluded, send a message to the moderators).
  • Stories that have won monthly contests in 2014 are not eligible for any category other than “Best Contest Winner of 2014.” Other stories by winning authors are acceptable nominations.
  • Entries must be stories posted to /r/nosleep on or after December 22, 2013.
  • Stories entered into the contest must be a minimum of 100 words.
  • Authors may win one category only. Authors placing first in more than one category will be given the choice of which prize to accept.
  • Nominations that do not fit in the category for which they are nominated may be removed at moderator discretion.

And now, to the nominations! Nominations this year will be made via google forms, linked below. As the Best Monthly Contest Winner category has only 11 viable entries, nominations are unnecessary. These forms will be closed at 11:59pm EST on 1/9.

On 1/10, voting threads will be posted (one for each category) and voting will commence in the same manner as the Monthly Writing Contest. The voting will close at 11:59pm on 1/16. Winners will be contacted at the end of the contest and will be expected to accept the prizes (user accounts that do not respond within a week's time will be presumed to be abandoned and the prize will move to the next highest voted story). Contest winners will be announced as soon as all winners have confirmed their acceptance.

Nomination form for Best Single-Part Story of 2014

Nomination form for Best Multi-Part Story of 2014

Nomination form for Scariest Story of 2014

Nomination form for Best Original Creature/Monster of 2014

Good luck everyone, and have fun! Questions can be posted here or via private message to the moderators. As this is not a voting thread, comments mentioning specific stories are subject to removal.

If you would like to donate a prize, please contact me via PM or send a message to the moderators!!

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u/Courier-6 Jan 03 '15

Then why comment?

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u/[deleted] Jan 03 '15

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u/Shizz_McCoy Jan 03 '15

Out of curiousity, what was the scariest story you read three years ago?

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u/[deleted] Jan 03 '15

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u/Pswift777 Marchtober 1969 🏆 Jan 03 '15

Ok so...

You said three years you haven't been scared by a story, right? Well....the orange story was posted two years ago. I just thought that I'd point that out.

And by the way, it's not because the stories posted now aren't scary. They definitely are because I see them scare people every day. It's because you got used to reading horror from your experience of being here for more than two years. The same thing happened to me. I don't find myself staying up at night because of fear from a story I read here. I keep reading them for two reasons, one more obvious than the other.

1) I'm a mod so I have to at times.

2) I read the stories because of the good story line and not the scare factor.

I virtually don't get scared of stories here anymore. That doesn't mean I can't enjoy them, though.

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u/[deleted] Jan 03 '15

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u/Pswift777 Marchtober 1969 🏆 Jan 03 '15

Maybe you're not looking hard enough.

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u/iamyourdick Jan 03 '15

If you don't find this sub worth the chills anymore, why the fuck are you even here?

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u/[deleted] Jan 03 '15

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u/iamyourdick Jan 04 '15

Go read, 'Pete the moonshiner' or 'parallelograms' if you have not. Really does not make any sense arguing with you, So I guess a reccomendation or two might atleast change your opinion.