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D’Ancey LaGuarde Literary Tribute Competition: Winners and Runners Up.
🕑 Added 2022-07-05 19:27:18 +0000 UTCHallo all!
It’s done! It’s complete! The inaugural D’Ancey LaGuarde Literary Tribute Competition is complete and this year’s winners have been selected!
This was a rough judging process. I had failed to factor in a few things, and weirdly this time, none of the things I’d failed to consider were the normal things I fail to consider - how much longer everything takes me now, my sleep deprived brain etc.
In fact, the things I hadn’t considered would make this difficult that turned out to make the judging difficult were as follows.
1) I was so thrilled with literally every single one of the entries, because it’s astonishing and delightful that anyone decided to jump aboard my little joke, let alone with such enthusiasm and then also (!) skill !!! My chuffed-ness interfered with my critical faculties.
2) I asked a few published and famous professional writer friends to help me split the (very long) short list, and the problem there was that they didn’t know the source material, so weren’t sure which funny concepts were to be attributed to the Original D’Ancey Synopsis, and which were the product of YOUR minds, and which were pitch perfect executions of the D’Ancey vibe and which were original and delightful takes.
3) I eventually got it down to about eight finalists and then to four unsplittable winners. In the end, I’ve decided NOT to give a £200 cash prize, but to instead give a £200 cash prize and three £50 cash prizes.
4) All shortlisted entrants get the £1000 in imaginary cryptocurrency, of course. And entry into my Non-Distributed-Ledger, a photograph of which I will take and send to you if I remember.
So! Enough Faffery.
The Winner is:
Pips Pollard, with their magnificent chapter 14 of Dark Bridges of The Heart, headed, “Sexy Cage Of Destiny’s Desires”. Linked here. The cover art contribution of their wife Max Smith was much appreciated, but specifically not counted or considered in the final score.
The three runners up who will be winning £50 (in non-alphabetical order) are:
- ‘Nora Van Chocstracof’, via the dedicated amanuensis Aaron Goodisman, with a tantalisingly delicious “Chapter 7” of Down for the Count. Linked Here.
- Andrew Bates submitting Chapter 68 from A Hill to Call My Own, entitled, ‘In which our heroine bares her heart, soul and creamy breasts, and melts a heart of iron with steamy passion’. Linked here.
- Sarah Marcotte with chapter one (and a title page) of The Crystal Throne Linked Here
Stay tuned for more honourable mentions, extracts and readings on The Gargle Podcast.
I love you all. I laughed so much reading these. My goodness what a fucking delight.
Xx
Alice
Comments
"Sexy Cage Of Destiny’s Desires" was absolutely wonderful! I look forward to reading the runners-up and hearing the other great submissions.
I will believe that these are any good only when Florida bans them. The other school systems should immediately add these to the summer reading lists for high school.
Isn’t it banging!!!! I loved it so much. It was so hard to pick between the final four. And before that it was so hard to pick the final four!
Kimberly Lloyd
I feel like I have actually read The Crystal Throne at some point. I haven't, of course, but it absolutely nails (that's what she said) the high fantasy romance genre.
I'm not sure if the effort on your part would be worth the return, but I would absolutely purchase a D’Ancey LaGuarde Literary Tribute audiobook, especially with characters voiced by Last Post/Gargle regulars.
