2013 Wicked Women Writers Challenge– How Will You Survive?

2013 Wicked Women Writers Challenge – How Will You Survive?

Welcome to the 5^th annual Wicked Women Writers Challenge – hosted by HorrorAddicts.net

Where women show how horror done right is horror that stays with you forever.

What is the Wicked Women Writer Challenge?

A challenge to all women horror writers, published or unpublished. Not only do you get to show off your prose, but we challenge you to perform your story in a podcast recording for all our listening pleasures. Your written and podcast story is publicly judged and voted upon by the fans to determine who becomes 2013 Most Wicked. Each podcast story must be crafted by the entrant and will be limited to ten (10) minutes.

Listen here as the Norns unfold humanity’s fate!

2013 Theme: How Will You Survive?

Premise: Life is never convenient. Why should the apocalypse be any different? Our challenge is how would you survive in an untimely apocalyptic situation.

Story Elements

Upon acceptance in to the 2013 Wicked Women Writers Challenge, your destiny will fall under the Norns Hands of Fate. The Norns will randomly assign the following required elements to help you craft your apocalyptic survival story.

Location: Where will you be when the inevitable strikes? The office lunchroom, stuck on the freeway, a public toilet, or at the gynecologist? We’re pretty sure it won’t be while you’re hunkered down in an underground missile silo with a fully loaded bug out bag.

Disaster: How will the end of the world strike? There is an endless spectrum of how humans will meet their ultimate demise. EMP blasts, super volcano, economic collapse, aliens, terrorist invasion, asteroids, or possibly even zombies are but a few of the ways to end humanity, as we know it. Will you be prepared? What Will You Do to Survive?

Item: It wouldn’t be fair to trap you in a room full of flesh-eating slugs and not give you a fly swatter now would it? Each challenger will receive one item to help them out of their dire situation. Use your item wisely.

Caveat Disability: You are trapped in your designated location. Unfortunately, you have an untimely disability. There is someone or something trying to kill and possibly eat you. Will you escape or battle it through to the bitter end? What might await you on the outside if you do manage to escape? How Will You Survive?

WARNING: The Norns are feeling itchy this year. This challenge is not for the faint of heart.

Ladies, are you ready for this year’s Wicked Women Writer Challenge? Please email your name, headshot, and short bio (under 50 words) to wwwchallenge2013@gmail.com

Killion Slade, our 2012 Wicked Women Writer Winner, will contact you for further challenge details and timeline. Deadline to enter the 2013 Wicked Woman Writer Challenge is June 20, 2013. For More Information: Please go to
http://www. wickedwomenwriters.wordpress.com

Please note: The earlier you enter the challenge, the longer you’ll have to prepare, write, edit, and produce your contest entry before the deadline. Contest slots fill up fast!

Good Luck and May the Norns Take Pity on Your Mortal Soul!


Killion Slade (Women in Horror Month)

Normally, Killion Slade is comprised of a married writing team. However, when it comes to horror, it is Mrs. Slade who takes the reins. Mr. Slade primarily sticks to Sci-Fi and Fantasy. They met in the virtual realms of Second Life, and virtually enjoy everything. Members of the Horrors Writers Association and the Paranormal Romance Guild, they storyboard their characters inside Second Life as their avatars reveal their stories.

Killion’s published short stories can currently be found in The Sirens Call ~ Special Edition for Women in Horror Month, The Danse Macabre, Cynic Magazine, Bewildering Stories, and Midwest Literary Magazine, as well as in several published anthologies Bite from the Heart, Death Sparkles, and soon to be released, The Ghoul Saloon.

Killion Slade is the 2012 Wicked Women Writer Challenge Winner with her horror story “Children of Angels” podcast. She is currently hosting the 2013 WWW Challenge themed “How Will You Survive” where entrants are given impossible apocalyptic scenarios, locations, helpful items, and an untimely disability to weave into their horror short story. Click here to learn more about the 2013 Wicked Women Writer Challenge. ( possible link to blog posting or to http://wickedwomenwriters.wordpress.com/2013/02/15/2013-wicked-women-writer-challenge-how-will-you-survive/ )

Killion’s Current Project: The Exsanguinate Series Both in her reality and virtuality, Cheyenne O’Cuinn must navigate tortuous and violent clues to rescue her kidnapped sisters before exploited to breed a dhampir army. Cheyenne fights against time and her own immortality before the world’s balance of vampire to human ratios tip towards apocalypse.

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