Thank you to everyone who participated, followed along, and/or voted in this year's competition~! The Yuri Garden Writing Competition (2020) is now finished.
The winners are as follows:
1st Place: "Spring-Time" by LostLibrarian
2nd Place: "The Villainess's Maid" by Ninetailed_Furball
3rd Place: "The Demon King's Secretary" by Vongrak
A permanent copy of the overall poll results can be viewed here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1BRWusZl_PhR-7CkiNjlDeeauGdpBQJM_/view?usp=sharing
The entries have now been de-anonymised. In a few hours, the order will be rearranged to reflect our winners. I'll also be contacting the winners about their prizes soon.
Now that the competition is finished, neutrality as a referee is no longer required of me. If anyone would still like my honest opinion or feedback on their submission, whether accepted or rejected, you can ask me for it now.
The competition won't run again until June next year, however, the Yuri Garden runs other events, such as collaborative anthologies. You can follow this account to be notified when we release more content, or even join us in the Garden here: https://forum.novelupdates.com/threads/the-yuri-garden.28548/
Once again: Thank your so much for organizing it
Also a "Thank You" to everyone who voted for me and, of course, all the other authors!
Reading the other entries made me want to be a part of this and I enjoyed the different ideas and stories! =)
I always dismissed the announcements with "no time", but reading through the earlier entries made me want to be a part of this event. It was an entirely new experience for me and I'm glad I ignored the nagging "You should sleep" part of my brain and threw myself at it!
Thanks for organising. I had so much fun.