/lit/ - Literature

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Excellent posts again, thank you for the great feedback and continued interest.

>competition
Again, i think that this is going to be central. my feeling here is to let this first competition run out and then re-devise its basic structure. I'm probably going to introduce a three-tier prize system, e.g. 1st 2nd 3rd, with corresponding prizes per competition, and would absolutely love to expand it out, as you note, to the arts, poetry, etc. Offering unique screen-writing or art competitions would be ideal, and i certainly think that this is doable.
questions of prizes/incentives and judgment comes to the fore immediately.
as for judgment: to be frank, im not expecting a whole lot of submissions this first round, so i think i can handle it myself. as time goes on, i would love for the competitions to pick up, and outside of being just a logistical issue having to read X number of submissions, i also think distributing the judgment of the competition across several people is a solid idea (i'm too close to myself, merely one man, yadda yadda). having something like a council of dedicated judges and/or a system of internal membership/judge selection would be great here. what conditions do you think would be best suited for the competitions you envision? how does the role of judgment and judges factor into your considerations?

the question of prizes is another big one. i thought that DUNE would be a nice, safe, popular reward that checked a lot of the right boxes. i thought the folio society version was nice enough to warrant attention without being so conspicuous as to warrant undue criticism.
Should i continue with fairly safe, nice volumes, e.g. folio socities? should i up the ante somehow? should prizes be unique the competitions at stake? I would love to hear all your thoughts here.
my inclination is to generally crowd-source what anons could potentially want, but this could also prove rather useless and prone to just 10,000 different standards. i'm more inclined to have the judging panel select quality prizes and simply offer them, take it or leave it, rather than responding to public demand of some kind.

my hope is to leave the competitions as open as possible. yes, this means that many submissions could potentially fall rather flat, but maintaining this democratic "back-door always open" policy has become a key component to the library's current image. not that this image cannot change, but i have tried more "exclusive" variation in the past and, to be frank, it's bored the living hell out of me. i've filled it previously and exclusive with harvard/MIT/princeton/cornell/etc. students, and this tends to pan out exactly how you'd imagine--some hits, a lot of misses. some balance between keeping things open, but then maintaining a strict meritocratic tightness would be my ideal. i simply want the most dedicated, most interested, most artistic, most motivated and most inclined to self-improve and learn. (cont)