Wild North Online 2021 Story Competition

So, who fancies a story competition? (With prizes!)

The competition will follow the con theme – ‘Tails of the Seven Seas’. How you interpret this theme is up to you. Will you take us on a swashbuckling adventure in the age of sail? Will it be a story about pirates and their dastardly deeds, explorers setting course for far-off shores, or maybe naval sailors fighting for king and country? Perhaps you have a more modern tale in mind – with submarines or even ocean liners. Or something more historical – we’d certainly love a Viking story!

HOW TO ENTER
• Email your story to wildnorthuk@gmail.com
• Please put the words ‘Story Competition’ in the subject line
• Tell us which name we should refer to you by
• Any file format is fine, as long as we can read it

The closing date for entries is 11.59pm on Tuesday 31 August.

Entries received after this date will not be included. If you have trouble entering, please let us know, ideally before the closing date.

RULES
• Maximum 750 words
• One entry per person
• No strong language
• No politics, hateful material, or controversial topics
• No copyrighted characters
• ‘Fantasy-style’ fighting and peril are fine – we’re expecting a few pirate-themed stories, after all. The minimum age for a Twitch stream is 13 years, and we could potentially have viewers of all ages. Think Redwall or Pirates of the Caribbean for the right level of peril. So nothing graphic or excessive please.

Your story should ‘mostly’ centre on anthropomorphic animals. Again, this is open to interpretation. Whether your animals talk, walk on two legs, or are a bit wilder in nature, we’d love to hear their stories.

If we feel your story could be edited to fit the rules, we will contact you to work something out.

LIVESTREAM
The stories will be read out during the livestream, and the judges will share their thoughts, before making their decision.

JUDGING
Stories will be judged on:
• Following the theme
• How well they're written
• Overall enjoyment

The judges will check stories for suitability. If they need to be amended, you’ll be informed.

Judges are independent from the Wild North team, and are free to make decisions as they see fit.

PRIZES
There will be prizes for 1st, 2nd and 3rd place
- 1st place: £50 Waterstone’s voucher (or equivalent store if the winner is non-UK)
- 2nd place: a 2000-word custom story by Silverley
- 3rd place: a 1000-word custom story by Silverley

CONTACT US
For all questions, please email us at wildnorthuk@gmail.com

Good luck and have fun!

Ahoy! This is the last call for music, art, and panel submissions. If you’d like to be involved, please let us know by the end of tomorrow (Tuesday 31 August).

Also, we’re extending the closing date for the Story Competition and the Fursuit ‘Dress-Like-A-Pirate’ Competition to Saturday 18 September. This is so everyone has a chance to get their entries ready.

Hello Flufftails!

It is only a few weeks to our Virtual Tails of the Seven Seas!

As a reminder don't forget the contests we currently have going that you can get involved in:

- Dress Like a Pirate: Adorn your furry suits, and show us your best pirate self
- Story telling: Have a story or poem to share from the Seven Seas? Write them and send them to us
- Fursuit Dance Contest: Got some moves to show us? Send it in!

We are also doing a singing collaboration of the song Roll Northumbria so if you want to join in please let us know! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-d3XHQVMHDM

All correspondence please send to our email: wildnorthuk@gmail.com

For more details you can visit our website :https://www.wildnorth.uk/

Hello Flufftails,

Just another small update for you all regarding the closing date of our contests for the Virtual Convention:

Story Writing competition 18th September
Dress Like a Pirate 25th September
Dance Contest 25th September

We already have a good number of entries for our writing contest so if you want to be in with a chance, you better move those tails!

Still plenty of space for the Dress and Dance contests though so don't be shy.

Look forward to hearing from you all.

~ Twizell

Hello Flufftails,

We are pleased to announce that the schedule for the Wild North Virtual Tails 2021 is online!

Go to our website below to see what we have in store for the 2nd & 3rd October. Also on the website, you will find the link to our Twitch channel where all our events and panels will take place, and soon you will find a link to our Discord channel as well for everyone to chat over the weekend:
https://www.wildnorth.uk/

We look forward to seeing you soon!

~ Twizell

Hello, Flufftails!

If you are reading this, we are now live for the first day of Wild North 2021: Tails of the Seven Seas!

Please make your way to the Twitch stream below for our opening ceremony and the first day of scheduled events!

https://www.twitch.tv/virtualwildnorth

Hello to our new subscribers - hope you're enjoying the event.

We also have a Telegram chat and a Discord server. Find the links in this channel description, and connect with your fellow furs.

Hello, Flufftails!

Come join us as we continue our adventure on the second day of Wild North 2021: Tails of the Seven Seas!

Please make your way to the Twitch stream below for our opening ceremony and the first day of scheduled events!

https://www.twitch.tv/virtualwildnorth

Hello Flufftails!

Thank you for helping guide our ships of adventure, fun and stories out to sea and back again!

We hope you have enjoyed your time aboard, and we look forward to seeing you next year!

If you want to know our theme for 2022, one of my foxy friends had a short message for you all!

https://youtu.be/XicYuJfzsao

Hello Flufftails,

As Wild North comes to a close for the year, we wish to thank all of you for watching, chatting, and participating over another brilliant weekend.

The final amount raised for our charity, Newcastle Dog & Cat Shelter, will be revealed soon.

Videos of all the events that took place over the weekend, including all parts of this year's Choose Your Own Adventure, the quiz, music, and ghost stories, are being prepared and will be available to watch on Youtube.

All entries for the writing contest will also be available to read on the Wild North website soon.

So be sure to keep an eye out for future announcements when all these will be revealed.

~ Twizell

Good Evening everyone, Kivuli here!

Once again thank you all for your amazing support for the convention and for our charity this year, you have blown us away with the support you have given us.

We do have our final total for the charity to share with you but first there is another announcement I wished to share with you all.

I am officially stepping down as a member of the Wild North Staff. This isn't due to any problems, or issues, but a personal choice. I am involved in a good few projects within the fandom and after a lot of thought, I decided to focus my energy there.

I will still attend Wild North, I will continue to support them as best I can, but as an attendee from this point forward. If you have questions, please feel free to DM me :)

Aside from uploading the convention videos to Youtube, I have one last official act for this convention, and that is to announce our charity total for this year.

It is with great pleasure to say, with some extra donations on top, that our total this year for Newcastle Dog and Cat Shelter is:

£600!!!

That is mind blowing, and our biggest total we have ever raised. Thank you all so much for this, an amazing high note for me to end on!

It has been a pleasure to help make this convention what it is and I look forward to seeing you all in the near future. Keep up the fantastic love and support.

We made the latest edition of Digging Up Positivity, by Thabo Meerkat. We're on from 1 min 48 secs:

https://youtu.be/3mx9N4lf7Bs

Evening flufftails,

I am pleased to reveal to you all our brand new website! Be sure to check it out by clicking the link below, you can find details on our upcoming Wild North 2022: Mythical Beasts, as well as important information.

~ Twizell

https://wildnorth.uk/

Evening everyone, we're pleased to announce that 2022 registration opens on Friday 25 February.

Prices and further details will be announced between now and then.

Hey guys, 2022 prices are now on our website:

www.wildnorth.uk/this-year

As a couple of people have asked: 2020 registrations (which weren't refunded) will carry over to 2022.

Hello Flufftails,

Just to fill you in on some information in preparation for registration when it opens this Friday, February 25th, at 7PM.

You'll find the URL to the registration site here: https://myfurry.name/WildNorth/

For details such as prices, please click here: https://wildnorth.uk/this-year/

We look forward to seeing you soon!

~ Twizell

Hello everyone,

Unfortunately, due to technical difficulties, we have decided to postpone registration to this Sunday 27th at 7PM.

We apologise for the inconvenience this has caused.

Reg is open!
myfurry.name/WildNorth

Registration FAQs can be found here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QwD0MiAHRUWgCBTdUJJ6pOaq_BM5fE5J/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=100887034485147574102&rtpof=true&sd=true

Terms here: wildnorth.uk/terms-of-registration