Please share with fellow language teachers and aspiring authors:
Dear friends,
if you have pupils/students who would like to practice creative writing non-linear text games, please forward this information to them.
SENICA INTERACTIVE FICTION Festival announces a call for a competition in non-linear stories/text games using TWINE.
Useful link: www.twinery.org
inspiration: SIF :: SENICA INTERACTIVE FICTION
Deadline for finished gamebooks: Friday, September 19, 2025
Send your entries in the format: Title (by “nickname”) to email odokienko.ondrej@gmail.com
Competition rules:
- the choice of language is up to you, preferred languages: Slovak, English, German, Russian, Italian, Spanish (note, if the language is uour mother tongue or you are just ahumble learner)
- entry must be original (do not use translator, another author’s work, or artificial intelligence)
- the work must be published for the first time (do not use an older, already published work)
- the number 100 must be incorporated into the story in any way
- the work must be finished, with good punctuation, diacritics, grammar, and paragraphing (we recommend checking it with spell-check before sending)
The evaluation of the works will take place in the form of audience feedback at the Senica Interactive Festival event on Sunday, September 21st from 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM in the park near DAV. Valuable prizes are prepared for the authors and all works will be published on the festival website. The event will also include a gamebook creation workshop, art workshops for creating a book cover, an interactive performance in a foreign language, a dance workshop, and much more
Feel free to get in touch.
Ondrej Odokienko
SIF team
odokienko.ondrej@gmail.com