YC 125 New Eden Capsuleers Writing Contest

[Aria_Jenneth]

The awards announcements will begin in about twenty minutes, pilots.

[Lunarisse_Aspenstar]

Winners this year are as follows!

Poetry
1st Elassus Herron for Akiga-Illshisotas IIket. His award will be given to Plex for Good at his request as an Audit Entry.
2nd Imlarr Timshae for Epitaph for a Capsuleer
3rd Lightning Lemmont for Haikus
4th Erica Munory for 12 Years of Slavery
Honorable Mentions Theodosius Savnar for Alzheimer’s

Prose
1st Theodosius Savnar for Emergency Confession Booth
2nd Ambarr Dishwataah for Salvaged
3rd Candide Fool for Yearning
4th Ambarr Dishwataah for the Business of Love
Honorable Mentions to: Calus Valmont, Trajon Thrax, Sydeed Ameer Ali, Duka Shasta (2x), Ambarr Dishwataah (x2) and Tintallel Sharan

Academic
1st Richard Masseri for Ida - To Consider - A Research Paper on the Ida…
2nd Simon Louvaki for Ghosts in the Shell…
3rd Amicia Cora for International Affairs…
4th - MantelGlobalIndustrries for Member State Conflicts in the Federation…
Honorable Mention: Theodosius Savnar for A Comparative Study of Amarr Space Cathedrals and ClisaLugara for Postal Drones

For Special Topic Awards:
AMARR Emergency Confession Booth (Amarr) Theodosius Savnar
GALLENTE Yearning (Gallente/Romance) Candide Foole
CALDARI Shadows and Daggers (Caldari) Duke Shasta
MINMATAR His Home Was Among The Stars (Minmatar/Romance) Sydeed Ameer Ali
ROMANCE The Hauler (Minmatar/Romance) Calus Valmont
FITNESS The Business of Love (Caldari/Romance/Fitness) Ambarr Dishwataah

Judges’ Award: Ambarr Dishwataah “Her stories are all consistently high quality; While various judges liked some more than others but they’re consistently and immediately engaging, which is especially impressive when they’ve made 4 solid submissions.”

Organizer’s Prize for two entries that caught my fancy:
Sword of God by Trajon Thrax and Ten Thousand Light Years Away by Tintallei Sharan

Prizes will be awarded in the next 72 hours or so!

Thanks again to all the parcipants, judges and sponsors for this year’s contest!

[Valerie_Valate]

I am certain the winners will enjoy their prizes.

Congratulations all round.

[Ax_l_Thorne]

Thank you for organizing this.

[Kalodote_Lafisques]

Congratulations to all winners!

[Richard_Masseri]

Thank you for hosting this event, it was an honour to take part.

[Elassus_Herron]

Thanks so much for organizing this! I’m always grateful for the chance to do some creative work.