dAlicious Contests #1 - Subscriptions for Life!

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Published: Aug 22, 2010

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About dAlicious Contests

DAlicious Contests is a detailed compilation of interesting and inspiring contests around deviantArt, where you can easily find a contest ideally suited to your style and medium of choice so you can win awesome prizes. If you would like to have your contest promoted, leave me a note or a comment to this article and it will be considered for the next issue.

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Suggest a Contest

If you wish to have your contest advertised in this list, send me a note with "Contest Addition" as a subject making sure you include the following information:
1). Host of the contest;
2). Media Allowed;
3). Name of the Contest;
4). A few words' summary of the theme;
5). Closing date;
6). Some of the best prizes;
7). Link to the article/journal.

For prompts and challenges, use "Prompt Addition" as the subject of the note and add a link and deadline of the prompt(s). Respectively if you'd like to suggest a kiriban, use "Kiriban Addition" as a subject.

I am also featuring contests in progress, in need of judges, prizes etc in a special section. Please, bear in mind that only contests with few prizes and recently or not yet opened will be included in that section.

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Content

Literature Contests

Digital art Contests

Photography Contests

Traditional art Contests

All Media Contests

Visual Media Contests

Other Contests

Prompts and Challenges

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Literature Contests

is holding a contest called Dotting Doctors asking you to write about a character, original or not, visiting the doctor's. Ends: AUGUST 30th. Prizes include points/3-month sub and critiques.
Details: cordria.deviantart.com/journal…

is holding an Exploring a Venue Contest for a comedy prose story with given prompts. Ends: September 6th 2010. Prizes include subs/points, features, prose requests.
Details: news.deviantart.com/article/12…

is hosting a contest about writers recognition. Ends: August 28th. Prizes include art requests, features, critiques.
Details: ourbluerose.deviantart.com/jou…

is asking you to write a story about changes in a relationship as we age. Ends: Sep 1st 2010. Prizes: 3-month sub, features, gift poem.
Details: pennedpaper.deviantart.com/blo…

is holding a contest called Through The Looking Glass asking you to depict your alter ego. Ends: 15th Sep 2010. Prizes: 16-months of subs total, critiques, commissions.
Details: iwritetoinspire.deviantart.com…

has launched Your World Contest asking you to write about Good vs. Evil. Ends: August 30. Prizes include 3-month subscriptions,features, gift art.
Details: 44dragonsproject.deviantart.co…

are holding a Mini Prose Contest with a theme The Dark Side, open for interpretation. Ends: September 30. Prizes include points, art requests, critiques and much more!
Details: news.deviantart.com/article/12…

is hosting a contest about Summer Romance. Ends: August 31st 2010. Prizes include points and llamas.
Details: news.deviantart.com/article/12…

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and their groups lyriclub and Live-Love-Write join efforts for the Four Birthdays Contest. The theme s birthdays. Ends: 26th August. Prizes include points, critiques and comments, features.
Details: news.deviantart.com/article/12…

is asking you to write a monody (In poetry, the term monody has become specialized to refer to a poem in which one person laments another's death). Ends: September 1st. Prizes will be up later.
Details: onlypoetry.deviantart.com/blog…

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all band together to host Project Evoltion - a contest with the theme World Fusion. Ends: August 30, 2010. Prizes include 800 points total, commissions and feature.
Details: theletterbox.deviantart.com/bl… & inspiring-words.deviantart.com…

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Digital art Contests

is holding "There IS a Paradise" photomanipulation contest asking you to create a paradise landscape. Ends: August 31, 2010. Prizes include points, subs and features.
Details: news.deviantart.com/article/12…

is hosting an icon contest themed Coffee Break asking you to design a set of icons or handhelds. Ends: 11 September 2010. Prizes are not decided yet.
Details: news.deviantart.com/article/12…

is hosting a photomanipulation contest called Lost in a Fairytale about fairytale characters who stray from the storyline. Ends: September 28th. Prizes include stock package, gift art, features.
Details: ladystock-archives.deviantart.…

$:iconallthingsfractal:$ is holding a Fractal Contest asking you to depict the magic of the fading summer and the coming autumn. Ends: Sep 15th. Prizes include 27-months subs total, prints, custom stamps, features.
Details: allthingsfractal.deviantart.co…

is asking you to make a photomanipualtion inspired by the poem Annabel Lee by E.A.Poe. Ends: October 31st. Prizes include stock packages, points, features.
Details: news.deviantart.com/article/12…

is hosting a design contest asking you to make the group a set of a stamp, an avatar and a journal CSS. Ends: 5th of September 2010. Prizes include 3000 points and features.
Details: tutorialsclub.deviantart.com/b…

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Photography Contests

is hosting a mini contest for beginners - only deviants with less than 8,000 pageviews. The theme is "My world, my nature". Ends: September 20th. Prizes include points and features.
Details: news.deviantart.com/article/12…

is holding Marine Mammal Photography Contest - a contest for photos of sea mammals. Ends: 31st August 2010. Prizes include 6- and 3-month subscriptions.
Details: shadow-and-flame-86.deviantart…

is hosting Zoo Photographers Contest asking you to photograph zoo animals as opposed to wild ones. Ends: August 31st at 11:59pm PST. Prizes include fine art prints and features!
Details: dsoden.deviantart.com/journal/…

is asking you to take photos of baby animals. Contest ends: September 11th 2010. Prizes: art prints and customized art.
Details: closetonature.deviantart.com/b…

are holding a water contest asking you to capture water in any context and form. Ends: September 16th, 2010. Prizes include a lot of features and points

Details: da-photographers.deviantart.co…

is holding a contest named Upside Down - free to be interpreted. Ends: Sep 12th, 2010. Prizes include journal features and points.
Details: photographersplace.deviantart.…

is hosting its first contest about World's Cutest Kittens. Ends: August 30th. Prizes include a 3-month sub, features and points.
Details: kewliokittyklub.deviantart.com…

is holding a contest about the 7 deadly sins. Ends: 1 October. Prizes iunclude 9-month's worth of subs total, features, emote/stamp requests.
Details: photography-group.deviantart.c…

is hosting a photography contest on natural beauty in nature and people. Deadline to submit is Wednesday, 25th of August, 2010. Points as prizes.
Details: monofacture.deviantart.com/blo…

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Traditional art Contests

is holding a contest on archangels. Ends: 31st of August 2010. Prizes include an angel-related art book and calendars.
Details: traditional-angels.deviantart.…

are launching a painting contest asking you to depict your favourite tale. Ends: October 3rd, 2010. Prizes include 21-months subscriptions in total.
Details: painters.deviantart.com/blog/3…

is launching their second contest called Design The Monster Under Your Bed for plushies. Ends: August 31st. Prizes include custom plushies and accessories.
Details: simply-plush.deviantart.com/bl… and simply-plush.deviantart.com/bl…

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All Media Contests

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are hosting together a contest about memories with two categories - visual and literature with separate themes. DEADLINE: September 30th at 11:59 EST. Prizes include points, art requests, features and llamas.
Details: news.deviantart.com/article/12…

is holding a short contest themed First Encounter. Any media is allowed! Ends: August 26th, 11:59 PM. A few hundred points as prizes.
Details: suzaku009.deviantart.com/journ…

is hosting Eco contest. All media allowed! Ends: October 17, 2010. Prizes include more than 2 year's worth of subscriptions, one fella plushie, points, features and more!
Details: news.deviantart.com/article/12…

is hosting a contest called Vampire Diaries Contest: Vampires Take A Holiday! for Vampire Diaries fanfiction asking you to depict your favourite vampires during a holiday. Any media allowed. Ends: September 30th. Prizes include subscriptions, Mousepad printed with winning artwork/Custom Lit tag, points, features.
Details: news.deviantart.com/article/12…

is hosting the fifth annual Think Pink contest raising awareness about breast cancer. All media allowed. Ends: October 3nd. Prizes include more than 37 years of subscriptions total, points, features, gift art, commissions.
Details: news.deviantart.com/article/12…

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is hosting a contest about light sources. All media is allowed. Ends: September 19th. Prizes include points, subscriptions, commissions, features, llamas.
Details: news.deviantart.com/article/12…

has launched a Mask Contest. All media is welcome! Ends: 10th of September, 2010. Prizes include points, subscriptions, features, llamas, commissions.
Details: thedeviantartgallery.deviantar…

is hosting a Fantasy&Sci-fi Fusion contest asking you to combine fantasy with sci-fi in the best way possible. All media allowed. Ends: August 31st, 2010. Prizes include a Wacom Intuous tablet, thousands of points, subscriptions, features, a fella plushie, stock packages.
Details: realm-of-fantasy.deviantart.co…

is celebrating their second birthday on deviantArt with a contest called Man vs. Demon. Any media allowed! Ends: 1st of September 2010. Prizes include 860 points total, special feature in dArtzine, art gifts, features.
Details: allarts.deviantart.com/blog/33…

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Visual Media Contests

is holding What's Summer to You Contest asking you to depict how you see summer. All visual media allowed. Ends: 31st of August 2010. Prizes include 6- and 3-month subs, points and features
Details: news.deviantart.com/article/12…

is hosting a contest called Abstract purple. All visual media allowed. Ends: October 20, 2010. Prizes include points, subscriptions and features.
Details: news.deviantart.com/article/12…

is hosting a fifth annual colouring contest asking you to colour lineart. Ends: January 3, 2011. Prizes include 6- and 3-month subscriptions, features, llamas and special gifts.
Details: news.deviantart.com/article/12…

is asking you to colour her lineart. Traditional and digital media accepted. Ends: AUGUST 31st. Prizes include 16 months worth of subscriptions, llamas, features, gift art.
Details: ikiska.deviantart.com/journal/…

is asking you to draw her princes. Media allowed: drawings/paintings. Ends: September 15th. Prizes include subscriptions/cash/points, art commissions, features.
Details: nightmare-chan22.deviantart.co…

is hosting a contest themed Snow Queen Tale asking you to use her stock. Visual media is allowed. Ends: September 21st. Prizes include 3-month subscription, exclusive stock and texture packages, features.
Details: tsubasacompany-stock.deviantar…

has opened a competition for nude portraits - photographs and drawings (traditional and digital). Ends: 26th of August 2010. Winners will be featured in the group's blog.
Details: portraitclub.deviantart.com/bl…

are holding a Magical Moments Contest asking you to draw a character in a moment surrounded by magic and one of the nature elements. Ends: November 1st. Prizes include lots of gift art, subscriptions and features.
Details: anime-lovers-united.deviantart…

is hosting Limited Palette Contest asking you to draw using a maximum of 8 colours. Ends: September 27. Prizes include a lot of features and art requests and commissions.
Details: animangart.deviantart.com/blog…

is asking you to draw them a group mascot. Ends: August 31, 2010. Prizes include a lot of gift art, subscriptions, journal features.
Details: drawanime.deviantart.com/blog/…

is hosting knite contest asking you to draw your own knite character with his/her kite. Traditional and digital media accepted. Ends: August 31st. Prizes include loads of request and gift art and llamas.
Details: knite-fliers.deviantart.com/bl…

is holding a contest called Go Fun Go Serious Go Fun asking you to remade an old deviation transforming it from serious to fun or vice versa. Ends: 15th of October. Prizes include subscriptions, points and features.
Details: kickyourownass.deviantart.com/…

is asking you to remake one of your favourite art nouveau pieces in your own style. Any visual media allowed. Ends: 1st of September. Prizes include a 3-month subscription and points.
Details: artnouveau.deviantart.com/blog…

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Other Contests

is holding a Photolust Critique Contest - a competition for critiques on photography. Ends: 1st September 2010. Prizes include 6-month subscriptions and points.
Details: news.deviantart.com/article/12…

is holding a collaborative contest called Down-to-Earth Magic for pairs of a writer and a digital artist. Literature and digital art allowed. Ends: Sept 21st. Prizes include 6-month subscriptions for four winners, features, gift art, critiques.
Details: news.deviantart.com/article/12…

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Prompts and Challenges

Keep in mind that prompts and challenges do not offer prizes but aim to inspire artists to create.

#Photo--Assignment - house hunting
Deadline: September 14th

Inspiring Words - 15 diverse prompts
Deadline: 29th of August

#ManipulateThis challenge - Post Apocalypse Now
Deadline: August 29th

#Live-Love-Write's this week's writing prompt

#fotoFriday offers you a photo as a prompt
Deadline August 25th

ScreamPrompt #6

I hope you found this article resourceful and beneficial! Keep in mind I do not have the tools to edit news articles so if there are any mistakes in your contest they cannot be corrected here. If, however, it is still open when the next issue is out, note me about the mistake so I can get it right the second time.