Sankofa Contest: Winners. New Week Opens. Prize Sponsorship Announcement

Big announcement first: We got Sponsorship!

As part of her contribution to foster community and further incentivise good quality, original content creation on Steem, Curie is sponsoring the prize pool for the Sankofa Folklore series of contests for August and September. Find out ways you can support curie on any of their posts on @curie blog.

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Last week's contest closed with some really amazing entries. We appreciate everyone who contributed through stories from all corners of the world. We all win when we have others honor our invitation into our individual cultures and heritages. That is the beauty of the sankofa contest.

Below were the top 3 from last week's entries, as selected by our judges. We invite you to click on them, read the very interesting stories, and support the authors if you deem their contents worthy.

First Place: 5 STEEM

@corpsvalues's "Stories my grandpa told"

Image Property of @corpsvalues

In this entertaining piece the author takes us back to a hot summer afternoon in California when he was just 15 and grandpa came visiting. What follows are two "folk stories" (or simply family stories) that grandpa told him, of the faceless woman, and of bigfoot. The author reckons thus:

"I absolutely believe them to be true, because my grandpa was an honest man who had no reason at this stage in his life to be telling lies, and the stories are supported by other family members."

Be sure to read it, and you'll agree it is deserving of the apex honors here. Good work, @corpsvalues! We also appreciate your original artworks that supported your beautiful stories.

Second Place: 3 STEEM

@gibic's "The Tale of Calon Arang, The Sad & Demonic Widow"
@gibic shares a 10th century Bali folktale of the witch Calon Arang, and the village's effort to contain her mischievous attempt to get someone to woo her beautiful daughter. It is surely an epic you should read, full of moral lessons, and entertaining in a very upbeat, intense fashion.

Third Place: 2 STEEM

@bashadow's "A short take on Mel's Hole - Modern Day Folk Lore"

Let @bashadow take you on a very fresh experience of this urban legend of the Mel Hole. In this tale, Michael puts the pieces of the jigsaw together in the form of compositing the three known pictures Mel had shared. "Did the above happen?" @bashadow ponders. "Who knows, it is all speculation. Mel's Hole, was a part of my early internet conspiracy radio day shows."

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All prizes have been sent to the respective winners. Congratulations, and thank you everyone for entering.

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The next round is hereby announced open!

"Share any exciting folk tale in the most creative and original way you can think of. All you need are just loose memories of the original plot, and you create an interesting story to share with us. The best entries win some STEEM."

• Share your story on your blog as a new post.
• Use "sankofa" as one of the tags.
• Additionally, drop the link to your post as comment on this announcement post.
• This is NOT mandatory, but you may resteem this announcement post to help spread the word.
• Entries close 6 days after this announcement post. Tick tock...

Prizes

We are going to give away 10 STEEM for the best stories. 5 STEEM for the first winner, and 3 and 2 STEEM respectively for the 2nd and 3rd winners.

The best prizes however will be the kind of author rewards only good posts attract. Trust us when we say many curators have an eye set on this one, ready and willing to reward excellence. Make the most of it.

Good luck!

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