Our team wanted to something different to celebrate World Storytelling Day this year. We brainstormed, came up with ideas – another story writing contest, a story camp, a story exchange…we wanted something that was short and fun, and where we could get as many of our readers as possible to participate. Hence came up the idea of a “6 word story” contest. 6 prompts, 6 words, 1 story. Twitter was the obvious choice of platform for this contest, with its love for byte sized messages. So we launched the contest, which went on for 2 days – the weekend – 19th and 20th of March, 2016.
And what a response we got – 196 stories on the first day!
The consequent 48 hours were the toughest of our lives, trying to choose 6 best stories out of 196 phenomenal stories, each unique in its own way.
Also Read: #6WordTales contest for #20March
But here they are, six 6 word tales, one for each prompt, chosen as winners for 19th march.
Writing about #friends
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Writing about #mom
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Writing about #childhood
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Writing about #grief
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Writing about #seasons
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Writing about #life
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Watch out for shortlisted entries from 19th March, coming soon…
Nice. It coincided with the eve of Twitter completing 10 years.
A lucky coincidence made awesome by all the contest participants. It was almost punishing to pick up just 6 tales from all those awesome contributions that we had received. The delay in announcing the results says it all
Hi, it’s amazing to see my story chosen as one of the winning entries.
But a small mistake I see, my twitter name is not “Chef802” it’s “Chef800”.
Oops! Our Bad. Thanks for pointing out. We will rectify it asap