November 2024 Flag design contest - Flag for Nanowrimo (National Novel Writing Month)
Prompt: Flags for Nanowrimo (National Novel Writing Month)
Hello and welcome to the r/vexillology monthly flag design contest
This November we’re looking for you to design a flag for the global event Nanowrimo.
What is Nanowrimo you might ask?
The National Novel Writing Month
The goal in Nanowrimo is to write a 50,000 word novel in a single month. Any genre. Any style. Any form. Any setting. Any subject. Anyone can enter. That’s an average of 1,667 words per day for thirty days. You can read all about it in the wikipedia page, and also on the organisation’s home page.
Specifically, we’d like you to design one of two possible flags.
A participant writer flag.
A victory author flag.
The participant writer flag is for those participating in Nanowrimo. So imagine this flag as one you would fly at your house/on your social media profile etc to declare your intent to say “I’m going to do Nanowrimo this year!” - a declaration of intent and membership. A flag you fly to say you are marching into literary battle as it were.
The participant writer flag would be one you can fly at the start of Nanowrimo if you plan to enter.
Second, a victory author flag is to be flown only by those who have “won” Nanowrimo as it were. One for those who have succeeded in writing an entire novel in a month. One for those to declare their success and pride in what they have done. A flag that also functions as a badge of honour.
The victory author flag is one you can fly at the end of Nanowrimo if you succeed.
There are no colour or design or style limitations on this flag, but keep in mind something important. This is a flag whose use case would very often be digital in nature. More so than many other contests we’ve done. That means some details will get lost in translation in smaller forms etc.
Please read the contest rules in full before submitting. These are the rules that apply to every contest, every month, so they are quite important.
PLEASE Remember the basics - a maximum of ONLY two submissions per entrant. For this contest, that means the following - You can submit
EITHER
ONE (1) participant design and ONE (1) victory design
OR
you can do TWO (2) participant designs
OR
TWO (2) victory designs.
DO NOT show the design ANYWHERE ELSE on the subreddit before the contest is over.
Because this has been asked several times, let’s be clear - you will see all approved entries between 19-27th of November - this is when you can vote on them.
If you want your flag to be included in the ones voted on, click here or on any of the other links immediately below.. We’re making this all as clear as possible.