Contests
What Would You Ask?
We know you’ve probably participated in “one-click” voting online with instant results. SCOPE wants to ask questions to get a sense of Sarasota County residents’ opinions. What questions would you pose to the community about local issues important to our residents?
Post your ideas in the comments below. We will run the best on SCOPE’s [...]
[Picture Added] Show us: What’s on your mind?
Greetings friends,
They say a picture is worth a thousand words.
I agree! I think images are a rich and powerful tool for understanding and contributing to the world around us. As an artist myself, I’m intrigued by what could happen if each of us more freely exchanged the visual in community as a way to share, [...]
[UPDATED] The Year in 3
Thank you for your comments on 2009 - we’ve put them into a wordle to represent visually. The more often a word was mentioned, the larger it appears in the image below.
We’re curious…
If you were to choose 3 WORDS to describe 2009, what would they be?
This is open — You can come from whichever perspective [...]
6-Word Contest Winner!
Our 6-Word Contest winner is Evadne Mela! Congratulations! Evadne has won a $25 bookstore gift certificate.
Her winning novel is: Rug burns, shotgun wedding. 50th anniversary.
To read the runners up, click here.
Thank you to everyone who entered - there were so many great novels.
SCOPEs Six-Word Novel Contest
UPDATE: The contest is now closed. We will share the results on the blog by the end of October.
SCOPE invites you to write a six-word novel: an entire story in exactly six words.
FLASH FICTION! Can you say it in just six words?
The classic example is by Ernest Hemingway: For sale: baby shoes, never worn.
We borrowed [...]