Deadline: June 1, 2014.
Payment: Golden Severed Head award and sales you earn during

Welcome, writing warriors from around the world. The gods of blood and victory formally invite you to test your skills in a battle to the death. Many will raise their steel and walk onto the bloody arena floor, but only one will claim the 2014 GOLDEN SEVERED HEAD.

Wartooth Arena offers writers of all stripes, new and old, the opportunity to compete, show off their writing skills, and be judged as worthy of the coveted Golden Severed Head award. Your ability to impress the judges, the public, and master these tools will determine how successful you will be in an online author tournament to the death. Can your virtual avatar stand against all comers by the strength of your story?

Wartooth Arena 2: Revenge of the F*cking Bad Ass, opens to all writers and spectators on January 1, 2014. This bloody round of competition focuses on the socially shocking, moral roller-coaster of the exploitation movies of the 1970’s. Each story submitted should clearly draw upon the classic exploitation and grindhouse genres of Biker Films, Blaxploitation, Cannibal Films, Canuxploitation, Carsploitation, Chambara Films, Giallo Films, Mockblusters, Mondo Films, Monster Movies, Nazisploitation, Nudist Films, Ozsploitation, Rape and Revenge Films, Sexsploitation, Shocksploitation, Slasher Films, Splatter Films, Spaghetti Westerns, Women In Prison Films, Britsploitation, Bruceploitation, Chopsocky, Category III Films, Gothsploitation, Hippie Exploitation, Hixploitation, Jewsploitation, Martial Arts Films, Mexploitation, Ninja Films, Nunsploitation, Pinku eiga, Stoner Films, Teensploitation, and Vigilante Films to offer a uniquely disturbing and entertaining world.

Entries must be previously unpublished as stand alone works. They may, however, have appeared in previously published anthologies. Any genre is acceptable as long as aspects of exploitation films are prominently featured. The maximum word count for stories is 40K, and deadline for entries is midnight on June 1, 2014. A completed entry should be published on Amazon and priced at $.99 until the winner is announced. And don’t forget to publish your story with the best low budget cover that captures the mood of the posters of the era. Once your entry is published, post a link to the book on Wartooth Arena. All stories will be shared to the group by no later than June 4, 2014. In the post of your link give us the names of the exploitation genres you drew from.

The culling will follow…Two rounds of elimination involving spectator participation will slaughter the herd until there are only three combatants. Each tier will challenge you to pick up the skills necessary to survive in the new landscape of the publishing world. The final three stories will be judged by Horrified Press. Each writer will retain the rights to her/his submission, but Wartooth Arena retains the right to publish the top ten entries in an anthology in perpetuity to raise funds for the continued promotion of the contest.

The victor will be announced on October 31, 2014 and will receive the legendary, coveted, one and only GOLDEN SEVERED HEAD. Additional prizes for the winner will include a DVD of Amerikan Holokaust, a modern exploitation classic, by Icon Entertainment and an unbelievably awesome custom cover from Gary McCluskey that will indicate the winning of the 2014 GOLDEN SEVERED HEAD. A week of banner advertising on the Daily Bookworm site will help spread the word about the winning story. The Viking hordes employed by Wartooth Arena will attempt to plunder more prizes before the conclusion of the competition. They will be announced as they are stolen.

Via: Wartooth Arena’s Facebook