I am officially announcing my first contest.

Prizes are still pending, News Article here: news.deviantart.com/article/82…
Please fav it and spread the word!
----->I am looking for features to be donated<-----



This is when I ask you to think about what issue has most greatly impacted your life, or which one is the one that you find is hidden, shunned, ignored.

Is it a disease? A disability?
A war? An emotion?
A crime?

I recently made a deviation, a piece of visual poetry and I found it quite soothing to make something personal but distant, not only for myself, but for a cause. I won't link here because you should be able to come up with your own awesome ideas
_{but I can't stop you from finding it in my gallery...}

So this is my challenge to you.
What is your cause? What are you fighting for? What needs fighting for? Why?

It can be small, it can be big.

I don’t want to say too much, I’ll leave you to find your own ideas

(just in case you have many ideas... I will allow each entrant to submit up to two different entries. You do not have to do two, but I don't want to limit creativity if people want to explore multiple avenues)

Submission Guidelines:

Visual Poetry/Poster/Image/Collage
(anything goes but I want it to be an image format, even if its just words typed on a plain background, so that all the lazy ones see something when it’s featured, this challenges our poets and photographers and visual artists to cross boundaries and compete with each other on an tougher playing field. Also I want this all to be art that can catch our eye, to support your “cause” )

Edit: there seems to be some confusion on this. You can submit visual poetry or just an image/drawing without words. But it will have to be a good image if its going to be able to compete with the words+image submissions.

I'll be judging based on the overall effect of your work.
Do I feel pushed or moved towards your cause?
Does it make us curious? Think twice?
Does it create empathy? How original is it?
_{and yes, I am in love with theme twisting.
I wanna see where you take this.}

EDIT!
On your submission please indicate what your "cause" is and link back to the journal ... if people can't see what your "cause" is they probably won't vote for you come vote time

_{I know all my poet friends will hate me... so here's a tip ---> www.paint.net/}

I want them all to be recent deviations. Submitted after this contest was announced or in the few weeks before it. (Just because I think it's cruel if you just submitted something and then a contest pops up the next day and ...... well it fits perfectly but you can't submit it because it's 'old' )


PRIZES!
_{(these are pending, if I get less that 10 entries I may only give out 2 subs, not 4.
Also, I may get prize donations so these may get bigger/better)}

Judges Pick –
  First Place:
       3 month sub from me + Features
       Winner Stamp
  Second Place:
       1 month sub from me + Features
  Third Place:
       Features

Voters Pick –
   First Place:
       3 month sub from me + Features
       Winner Stamp
   Second Place:
       1 month sub from me + Features
   Third Place:
       1 month sub from ash4love + Features

Honorable mentions will be decided by how many awesome entries we get
   (Maybe a lot … because all our causes need attention)

FEATURES!!
I will put ALL the features in my journal and in a news article.
Also, I am asking for people volunteer to feature the six main winners:

So far we have features from:


and Sunrikaiya will feature the judges picks and some of the honorable mentions... twilite-crescent will be doing a 3 month feature


I may need people to help me judge, depending on how many entries I get... I will recruit judges if I get overwhelmed.

Also I welcome any features and prize donations.

Donors may enter the contest too!!


ENTRIES DUE: August 17, 2009.
And please submit your entries in a note to me, so I can better keep track of them.

You may view the entries so far here:
-----> theleavesofmemory.deviantart.c… <-----

:thumb124841438: :thumb123803472: :thumb123490763: :thumb115474040: :thumb125359643: :thumb124083310: :thumb124086217: :thumb126697116: :thumb126357270: :thumb131685357: :thumb132048638: :thumb132052688: :thumb132498129: :thumb132623255: invisible childrenwe walk alone
we march on
to the sound of
rifles, explosions
caused by shells
like bird songs
to wake us up
in the morning
we answer the
call to fight
and rush in as
blood coats us
like mud from
childhood games
our breaths are
stilled by wounds
and smoke, while
the memories
of our homes
burning in fire
don't go away
no matter how
much we squint
we are soldiers
we fight like men
but we die like
invisible children

Mature Content

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Good Luck!

VOTE -> news.deviantart.com/article/90…