Contest!

#EDIT#
The contest ends midnight tomorrow! Remember to get your entries in by then!
Sorry I didn't give you more warning, but I've been really busy over the last week or so.

So, it's undeniable that P2TM needs more publicity, and to facilitate this I've decided to host a contest. The idea is simple – take your favourite poem or song lyrics and create a deviation based on or inspired by it. It can be any media at all, anything from a painted pot to a photograph to a poem of your own.

Examples:
blonde-walf.deviantart.com/art… – inspired by Three Boats Down From the Candy by Marillion
blonde-walf.deviantart.com/art… inspired by A Birthday Present by Sylvia Plath
blonde-walf.deviantart.com/art… based on A Comrade by Will H. Ogilvie

Deadline: 31st August 2011, 23:59:59 GMT (Time zone converter: www.timezoneconverter.com/cgi-…)
This gives you plenty of  time to create your entry and get it entered, including all of the summer holiday.

How to enter: Send your entry in a note or comment to PoetryToTheMasses and I will add it to the "Contest Entries" collection, provided it complies with all the rules.

Rules:

1. Your work must be based on or inspired by an existing poem or song lyric by an artist other than yourself.
2. "Poem" includes haikus and other fixed forms, blank and free verse, shape or concrete poems and epic poems (e.g. Homer's Odyssey, Vergil's Aeneid, Milton's Paradise Lost)
3. The poem or song lyrics you use may be in any language
4. Please include a link to a copy of the poem or song lyrics you used, or write them out, in the Artist's Comments section. Make sure to include the name of the poet/writer
5. Each  deviant may only enter once
6. Entries must be created for the contest
7. If your work is based on a poem or song lyrics by a member of deviantART, they would probably loved to see what their work has inspired you to create, so I suggest you send them a link to your work (optional)
8. All the poems and song lyrics used will be added to the list of suggested poems and included in future features, so they must abide by the P2TM rules (poetrytothemasses.deviantart.c…)
9. All entries must follow deviantART's submission rules.

Prizes:
(will be updated)

• First place:
  
  • 100 points from QuenWrites
  
  
  • 25 points from ClearSound
  
  
  • Llama badge from QuenWrites
  
  
  • Feature from QuenWrites and on the PoetryToTheMasses page
  
  
  • Free commission(s) to the total value of 500 points from QuenWrites (more info: blonde-walf.deviantart.com/jou…)
  
  
  • Winner's package from AnotherContestGroup
  
  
  • Journal feature from petrova
• Second place:
  
  • 50 points from QuenWrites
  
  
  • 15 points from ClearSound
  
  
  • Llama badge from QuenWrites
  
  
  • Feature from QuenWrites
  
  
  • Journal feature from petrova
  
  
  • Free commission(s) to the total value of 250 points from QuenWrites (more info: blonde-walf.deviantart.com/jou…)
• Third place:
  
  • 25 points from QuenWrites
  
  
  • 10 points from ClearSound
  
  
  • Llama badge from QuenWrites
  
  
  • Feature from QuenWrites
  
  
  • Journal feature from petrova
  
  
  • Free commission(s) to the total value of 100 points from QuenWrites (more info: blonde-walf.deviantart.com/jou…)

Judges:


Entries will be judged on quality as well as how they have interpreted and portrayed the poem/song lyric they used.

The top three will be voted on by watchers to decide who gets first, second and third.

If you would like to donate prizes or judge, send a note or comment to QuenWrites or PoetryToTheMasses. Prize donors may still enter but judges may not.

Thank you all, and I look forward to seeing your entries!


QuenWrites