Thanks to the awesome team at Leo Finance, we’re able to offer an incredible weekly author spotlight program here at Scholar & Scribe. The Author of the Week will receive:

• A share of the rewards of these announcement posts (some of Hive’s biggest accounts will be voting)
• Inclusion in a digest that will be heavily marketed on Web2 (e.g. Twitter, Reddit)
• If this experiment proves successful, much much more is planned

🎉 Week 9 Winners (another tie??): @rinconpoetico7 & @riverflows! 🎊

This one was so close I couldn't even tiebreak with staked $SCRIBE or $SCHOLAR. They both had just about the same, so... 30% beneficiary each!

Vote for this week’s author!

👉 Head to the poll here to vote!

The Hive community has the final say in who wins. Below are the four S&S finalists for this week. There is a link to a Leo Threads poll before and after the list. Note: when you vote, the poll may not reflect your vote right away. It can take a few minutes to fully update.

Voting closes on Sunday evening. Winner will be announced in next week’s poll post.

Finalists for Week 10

• 📕 @mellindor's Papa - part 5/5 (D&D story)
• 📗 @amirtheawesome1's Before I Die Chapter 2: The Trial
• 📙 @grocko's Priorities
• 📘 @seha76's FIRM TREE

👉 Head to the poll here to vote!

How to vote?

1. Make sure you’re signed in to Leo Threads. It uses Hive Keychain.
2. Go to the linked poll thread above and cast a vote
3. The poll will refresh and show you some results. Note: your vote may not be reflected immediately.
    

🤔 How are the 4 finalists chosen each week?

Scholar and Scribe admins or mods are responsible for nominating 4 finalists every week. Here’s some insight (in no particular order) into how these posts and authors are chosen. This may change over time:

• The storytelling is strong and engaging: use of arcs, narrative devices, and creativity
• The work is well formatted and makes good use of markdown
• Spelling and grammar is excellent
• Non-English content has an English translation
• The user has significant staked $SCHOLAR and/or $SCRIBE tokens
• If the work is part of a serial story, the author has included navigation to the other parts of the story

On poetry vs. prose

We will start considering poetry for these entries, but prose will still be preferred. Poetry should follow the concepts bulleted above, as best they can. Very short poems will not be considered (aim for more than 400 words to stand out).

Other notes

• 🥇 The winner of any AOTW will not be eligible for at least 2 weeks following their win
• 🥈 The runner up of any week will have preferential inclusion for the next week
• Winners of the ongoing DreemPort WOTW contest held in Scholar & Scribe will automatically make the shortlist (aka they will be considered strongly for nomination)
• We do not have a ties policy yet, and will cross that bridge when we come to it :)
• Any evidence of vote manipulation will result in being excluded from all AOTWs indefinitely

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