Took us a while to get around to this! As part of the ongoing campaigns to promote and utilize the new Hive microblogging service Leo Threads, we encouraged writers to submit microfiction.

Things got plenty creative too!

First up, the prizes for talent, originality, cleverness, and ability to tell strong stories within tiny spaces:
 

🥇 First place (winning 4 HSBI) goes to @agreste

For this short piece, which leaves out just enough to tease at a much deeper, darker story.
 

🥈 Second place (winning 3 HSBI) goes to @cliffagreen

For this zapfic which somehow delivers a rollercoaster of emotion and a surprising twist.
 

🥉 Third place (winning 2 HSBI) goes to @blitzzzz

For this short story that leaves you asking many fun questions.
 

🥉 Fourth place (winning 1 HSBI) goes to @magnacarta

For not just one zapfic, but many dozens of of them. If there was an award for being prolific, this user would win. Check out their Threads profile here.

🥉 Fifth place (winning 1 HSBI) goes to @riverflows

For this tasty bit of irony. :D
 

🎟️ Raffle prizes

Participants who used the #zapfic tag on Threads to submit original microfiction were included in a raffle for 100 SCHOLAR and 1 SCRIBE each. Here are the winners!

@sperosamuel15
@cliffagreen
@blitzzzz
@riverflows
@coquicoin-leo
@magnacarta
@tengolotodo.leo
@relf87
@agreste
@balikis95

Congratulations! All prizes will go out over the next few days. Get in touch with me (@jfuji) if you think I may have missed you.
 

What's next?

It's already happening! The latest Leo Threads collaboration makes use of their poll feature... but it goes way beyond that. Every week, Scholar and Scribe + many other Hive communities will nominate 'Author of the Week' finalists. Use the polls on Threads to determine a winner, who gets a share in some serious upvote rewards plus having their work marketed outside of Hive to new audiences!

👉 More details can be found here.

 

Even more from Leo Finance!
⚠️ There will be a massive Hive-wide adoption campaign with $10,000 USD in prizes starting early April (run by Leo Finance). Scholar & Scribe will be looking to participate in this as well. Get early access to the Crew3 platform being used to facilitate the contest here.

 

About the Scholar and Scribe Community

Scholar and Scribe is a 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.

[ Quick token guide • S+S 'Whitepaper' ]

Thank you for reading. I own the license to all images in this post, except for the LEO logo and Scholar and Scribe banner icons, the latter of which were designed by @trashyomen.