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Topics and Themes for Illuminati 2012: Annual ManipalBlog Writing contest.
By Admin On 24 Apr, 2012 At 08:11 PM | Categorized As Contests, Illuminati 2012 | With 2 Comments



Please note: Entries are no longer being accepted!

For the complete list of Accepted entries Click here.

Multiple entries in each category and for each theme are allowed.

The Eligibility, guidelines and rules are all mentioned at the following link – 012 .

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For questions related to this contest contact us at : contests@manipalblog.com, with Illuminati 2012 in the subject line.

The topics and themes for the 012 are as follows:

Short Story Topics:

  1. The first day of college, a love note, and I suddenly saw a light at a distance…
  2. A young student, corruption in the college, joins politics to save country
  3. The Tablet, 21/12, Technology saves humanity from the Mayans.

Poetry Themes:

  1. The girl at the fair
  2. Wonderland
  3. The sweet taste of Revenge

To enter and submit your story/poem to this contest visit – http://manipalblog.com/illuminati2012.


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  • http://www.facebook.com/thefightclubowner Vibhooti Mangal Tiwari

    I’m confused about the phrases under the short story topics.Do we have to write the story based on them or our story can be about anything and it should just include those phrases?

    • ManipalBlog

       You can do either. Preferably a story based on these rather than a story containing those phrases.

  • Guest

    shoild the short story be less than 1500 words or between 1000 to 2000

    • ManipalBlog

      Hello Guest,

      As mentioned in the guidelines, the story should be between 1000-2000 words. We do not mind if it exceeds or falls short by a few words as long as you stick to the topics/themes mentioned above.

  • http://www.facebook.com/sassoto Saswata Ghosh

    For Poetry, should the title be the same as the theme?

    • ManipalBlog

       No @facebook-605373111:disqus

  • Syl

    Unfortunately, poetry cannot be written according to rules nor the imagination be harnessed to a ‘task’. If not written from the heart, what kind of poetry would that be? :)

    • ManipalBlog

       While we do understand that, The topics are just there to provide a starting point for your imagination to run wild :) .

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  • adi

     I am more interested in nature poetry . I have written many poems on it. If you give me a chance i can show you my work . Thank you :)

    • ManipalBlog

      Adi, The tree topics are left to imagination, don’t you think as a poet you can work around the topics to imbibe nature in them? For example,you can consider the young girl at the fair to be a lovely vine :)

  • http://www.facebook.com/MANISH.AXOMIYA.PARASHAR Manish Parashar

    ALL the phrases under a single topic are a SINGLE topic, right? i’m confused :@ 

    • ManipalBlog

      Yes Manish, Topic one contains the three phrases -  The first day of college, a love note, and I suddenly saw a light at a distance… and so on for the next two topics.

  • Vijayabhaskar Siddareddi

    There should have been one topic on ‘Future of Technology’ – everyone is connected to everyone else, no one leaves for work or pleasure, no need to cook at home, everyone has individual personalized gadgets, then what? You can check for some latest info on the applications of IT at http://lifemeetsdigital.blogspot.com.

  • adi

    poetry contests should encourage imagination not limit it . By giving topics you are limiting the mind . This is kind of unfair . It`s seems you are giving a child to write an essay in a test .

    • ManipalBlog

       Hello Adi,

      If your imagination can’t come up with a poem for these topics, what kind of a poet are you :)

  • Thehoodedface

    interesting topics :)

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