Enter the 2024 Journey Into Journey: Illustrated Edition Writing Contest

Let me know if you would like to enter the Journey Into Journey: Illustrated Edition Writing Contest, where you will be assigned a Journey song title to use as your story title, AND an AI-generated image upon which to base your story on.  There will be small cash prizes for the top three winners. Also the 1st place winner will be guaranteed to have their story produced for the show.  More details below...

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2024 JOURNEY INTO JOURNEY: ILLUSTRATED EDITION WRITING CONTEST SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

CONTEST TIMELINE:

• You will be assigned a story title and AI-generated image based upon a song title from the band Journey. This will be the basis and inspiration for your story. You will receive this assignment via email, and on a podcast episode on August 9th.
• You must submit your new original story by 12:00:00 AM Mountain Time on December 1, 2024
• Winners will be announced on the show and by email before January 1, 2025
• The 1st place story will be produced for audio publication on the podcast in 2025.

WORD COUNT: No word limit, but judges may tire while reading an overlong story.

STORY REQUIREMENTS AND PREFERENCES:

• The story must be titled as assigned and be based on the AI-generated image you are given.
• Please write an original story based on inspiration from the assigned title and image. There is no way for me to enforce this, but the spirit of this contest is to provide a prompt for a new story.
• Preference for speculative fiction, including science fiction, fantasy, horror, and various combinations and sub-genre.
• Remember the 1st place winning story (possibly more) will be produced for the podcast, so we will be looking for stories that "work well in audio."

CONTEST RESTRICTIONS: Please no splatter horror, grimdark, or explicit sexual content. Also please avoid coarse profanity.

WHO WILL DECIDE THE WINNERS: A panel of volunteer judges.

PRIZES: 1st Prize: $20, 2nd Prize: $15, 3rd Prize: $5.  1st place story will be produced as a full cast audio production for the podcast.

WHERE TO SEND SUBMISSIONS: Email submissions to journeyintopodcast@gmail.com

SUBMISSION FORMAT:  The subject line must contain the prefix of "2024 CONTEST:" followed by the title of your story.  The body of the email should be the text of your story.

Delusion #104: The Acolyte, Part 1: The Outrage

Marshal and Rish get together real quick to talk about The Acolyte series and everybody's outrage over it. We also talk briefly about Bad Batch, Tales of the Empire, and even Clone Wars. Do I need to say it? Spoilers included.

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Journey #198 - First Contact by Murray Leinster (X-Minus One)

An Earth rocket makes first contact with an alien space craft in deep space. Both desire a peaceful trade of ideas and technology, but neither can trust the other enough to risk the fate of their home planets.

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Murray Leinster was a pen name of William Fitzgerald Jenkins (June 16, 1896 – June 8, 1975). He was an award-winning fiction writer, particularly of science fiction. He wrote and published more than 1,500 short stories and articles, 14 movie scripts, and hundreds of radio scripts and television plays.

X Minus One was a half-hour science fiction radio drama series broadcast from April 24, 1955 to January 9, 1958 in various timeslots on NBC. Initially a revival of NBC's Dimension X (1950–51), the first 15 episodes of X Minus One were new versions of Dimension X episodes, but the remainder were adaptations by NBC staff writers, including Ernest Kinoy and George Lefferts, of newly published science fiction stories by leading writers in the field, including Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, Philip K. Dick, Robert A. Heinlein, Frederik Pohl and Theodore Sturgeon, along with some original scripts by Kinoy and Lefferts.

Theme music: Liberator by Man In Space

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Trekkin' Log #11 - Star Trek: Lower Decks S1 Eps 1-5

Join Marshal and Keith as they trek with the ensigns on the lower decks of the USS Cerritos, namely Beckett Mariner, Brad Boimler, D'Vana Tendi, and Sam Rutherford, as they face zombie attacks, milk spiders, drunken Klingons, terraforming goo, fights to the death, and love parasites.

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Timecode                  Episode Title

00:21:00                    "Second Contact"

00:29:28                     "Envoys"

00:36:55                     "Temporal Edict"

00:45:46                      "Moist Vessel"

00:54:00                      "Cupid's Errant Arrow"

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Outfield Excursion #30 - Cat People (1942)

Irena Dubrovna, a newly married Serbian fashion illustrator, is obsessed with the idea that she is descended from an ancient tribe of Cat People who metamorphose into black panthers when aroused.

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Episode Art courtesy of Gino Moretto.

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Journey #197 - The Grave (Twilight Zone Radio)

Old West lawman Conny Miller visits the grave of a man who he failed to track down to prove he was never afraid of him, but he gets more than he bargained for.

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The Twilight Zone was a nationally syndicated radio drama series featuring radio play adaptations of the classic television series produced for the BBC Radio 4 Extra from 2002 to 2012.  Many of the stories are based on Rod Serling's scripts from the original Twilight Zone series, and are slightly expanded and updated to reflect contemporary technology and trends (e.g., the mention of "cell phones" and "CD-ROMs.". In addition to adapting all of the original episodes aired on the 1959-1964 TV series, the radio series has also adapted some Twilight Zone TV scripts which were never produced, scripts from other Serling TV productions, and new stories written especially for the radio series.

Theme music: Liberator by Man In Space

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Trekkin' Log #10 - Star Trek: Voyager S1 Eps 1-7

Join Marshal and Keith as they trek into the Delta Quadrant with Captain Kathryn Janeway, Commander Chakotay, Tuvok, B'Elanna Torres and the rest of the crew and of the starship Voyager.   Stranded, they meet the Caretaker, theTalaxians, Kazon, Ocampa, Vidiians, and Baneans as they begin their perilous 75-year trek home looking for ways to speed their journey.

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Episode Title               Timecode

00:03:19                       "Caretaker"

00:28:08                       "Parallax"

00:34:13                       "Time and Again"

00:40:38                       "Phage"

00:45:32                       "The Cloud"

00:51:38                       "Eye of the Needle"

00:57:07                        "Ex Post Facto" 

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