About the competition

The City Dionysia is a yearly festival in honour of Dionysos, Lord of Wine and Theatre. In ancient Athens, it was celebrated with a theatrical competition. This blog serves to bring this competition into a modern scope by allowing Hellenic polytheists to submit their own creative pieces in honour of Dionysos, to be judged by the mob.

The ancient festival featured tragedies, comedies, and satyr plays; our modern competition is a little different. The categories for submissions are Retellings of Classic myths, Original myths, and Poetry.

In addition to the above three, this year’s edition will feature a new category: Art. This will allow more artistic-inclined Hellenic polytheists, whether they prefer traditional or digital mediums, to share their talents with the community.

Submissions will be open from March 9th to April 5th 2020, allowing a bit under a month to create and submit your piece. Voting will take place from April 6th to April 11th. Winners will be announced on April 12th.

Currently there are no prizes for winning, the competition only aims to be a fun way to bring the City Dionysia to life as a communal event for modern worshippers.

Rules for submissions:

- Roleplay and fanfic are not allowed in submissions. This is a religious festival, please respect our faith and do not submit an entry if you are roleplaying or writing fanfiction.

- Submissions do not need to revolve specifically around Dionysos, but they must be created in honour of the Hellenic pantheon.

- All stories, myths, poems, and art pieces must be entered using the submissions button.

- All entries must be tagged for the category they are being submitted to.

- Entries must also be tagged for potentially triggering content, squicks, and anything NSFW.

- An entry may only be submitted to a single category.

- Each person may only submit one entry per category each year.

- Winners for each category will be decided by popular vote.

The City Dionysia competition was started in 2017 and continued in 2018 thanks to the dedication of Lizzie/@pomegranateandivy. The original blog, along with previous submissions, can be found at @city-dionysia-competition. Since Lizzie is no longer able to organise the competition, it has been independently taken up by @sisterofiris in the spirit of previous editions.