Here’s another exciting writing contest for all the Scribes out there 😁
With over 40 Hive SBI in the prize pool, this might be our juiciest one yet.
🏆 The Contest
Your challenge is to write a character backstory for the fantasy worldbuilding project Sitka World. The format of the backstory is flexible—it can be prose, an organized list, a more formal character sheet… whatever you’d like.
- 🔽 Minimum word count: 500
- 🔼 Maximum word count: 1,500
- 📅 Deadline to enter: Friday Sep 30, at 11:59PM GMT
- 📢 Winners announced: Friday Oct 7
- 👉 Comment a link to your entry in this post!
✅ Judging criteria
Winners will be selected based on:
- 🎭 The depth of the character
- 🧩 How well the character fits within the Sitka World universe
| Most of you are probably not super familiar with the Sitka World universe… so be sure to scroll down to find out more about it! |
🎁 Prizes
This is a BIG prize pot. The main HSBI prizes are huge. Learn more about how HSBI works here.
🥇 First place: 20 HSBI + 100 SCHOLAR + NFT whitelisting† + canonization‡ of your character! 🤯
🥈 Second place: 15 HSBI + 50 SCHOLAR
🥉 Third place: 10 HSBI + 25 SCHOLAR
And if you’re familiar with S&S contests… there’s usually some bonus participation and honourable mentions prizes too 😀
†NFT Whitelisting: Only 1,111 of Sitka World’s Act One NFTs will ever be minted, and only one per wallet. You will need a whitelist privilege in order to be able to mint one, and winning this contest will grant you that!
‡Canonization: this means your character will actually end up in the novel, in some way shape or form! The author herself will have a big say in outcome of this contest 😮
🧠 Tips for winning: Learn more about Sitka World!
Sitka World is a web3 fantasy worldbuilding experience. Scholar & Scribe has partnered with them to bring more writing opportunities to Hive and to expose writers to the Sitka World project.
The story of Sitka World will be released across three Books, with three Acts each. These will be in NFT form and offer holders shares in any royalties earned from sales (web3 or otherwise!)
- 📚 The first three chapters of Act 1, Book 1 are available to read on the Sitka World Discord. When you join this Discord, your first encounter will be with a unique storytelling experience as you onboard towards the
Initiaterole. This will give you a nice taste of the story right away! - 📄 The whitepaper also contains valuable lore information—in particular: the ‘Saga’ section.
- 👉🏼 This Hive post gets into more detail about the project itself.
Use these resources to get a little more familiar with the lore and the vibe of Sitka World. The Discord is an especially rich place to find nuggets of story elements and ideas.
Remember: the judges will be mostly looking at the character depth and how well it fits into Sitka World’s story. We will not be judging writing quality or grammar to any significant degree! So let the creativity flow (while learning about this awesome new project!)
Speaking of judges, they will consist of Sitka World’s author herself, Sitka World community members, and myself (
Good luck to everyone!
About the Scholar and Scribe Community
Scholar and Scribe is a new creative writing community founded in the forges of Hive's passionate Pizza Guild. It sets itself part from some of the other writing groups on Hive with its unique dual-token system.
Thank you for stopping by. 100% of this post's rewards go to the Scholar & Scribe community account. The banner image was created using art from Sitka World. The Scholar and Scribe banner icons were designed by @trashyomen.