And at last, winners of the Short Story Contest

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Before knowing the winners and going on to the rest of the article, we would like to thank you all who participated for your efforts. First and most importantly, to the writers who have contributed 82 stories for the contest. There are people who don't always appreciate the hard work that goes into writing a good story in just a few words, and even more so when it's about one of our Characters =P, but we know that's it's not an easy task. Secondly, to Bubok for collaborating with us to give you this contest. And thirdly, to all our readers who dedicated their time to read and rate the stories. THANK YOU EVERYBOBY!!

So, without further ado, as we're sure you're all thinking we're being pestilential, we shall list aaaaaaaaaall of the winners. We have chosen 7 stories amidst the preselected 25, as well as the 3 voted most popular:

- Antonio Alarcón ::: Hikiko Ghost & Hikiko Goblins. Read Story.
- Andrés Fernández ::: Gustavo de los brazos largos. Read Story.
- Edgarin ::: Menudo, el pirata borracho. Read Story.
- Laura Nicte ::: La Muerte. Read Story.
- Miguel Ángel López Matamoros ::: Abram, el nuevo conde de los vampiros. Leer Relato.
- Ricardo Rey Pena ::: Carlitos Caos Begins. Read Story.
- Rubén Hurtado ::: Menudo, el pirata borracho. Read Story.

At first we had the in mind preparing this book with only 10 short stories, buuuut, at the request of Bubok, we're going to include 5 more that were not preselected that, in their opinion, deserve their place in the book. And we have to say that we agree:

- R.G. Cárdenas ::: Coconut Case. Read Story.
- Juan Carlos Carvajal ::: La Formula de Hikiko. Read Story.
- Margarita Nora ::: Invasores. Rumbo al planeta Uno. Read Story.
- Ana Iglesias Sánchez ::: Perrito malo. Read Story.
- Daniel Gallego Vico ::: Un día más. Read Story.

Congratulations to all those selected! And for those of you who weren't chosen, if you are asking yourselves why them and not me, we'll tell you that we took into account the basic things like if it was well written, even if not perfect, and that it proved to be entertaining, and also other things that in any other contest they wouldn't took into account, like the coherency of the original character story, and the variety in the book, so the same Character isn't features 10 times. Nevertheless, these types of decisions are very subjective and we're not always able to argue the case logically. We just know that the ones we have chosen we liked very much.

And just as a reminder, each winning writer will receive the following prizes:

Sólo a modo de recordatorio, cada escritor recibirá por cada relato ganador los siguientes premios:

- Publication of the story in the book alongside your name. Remember that it will be before the 1st December
- Tolky Monkys voucher with a value of 60€
- 1 copy of the book including your story, courtesy of Bubok.
- Promotion and publicity by Bubok and Tolky Monkys with the tools at your fingertips.

The book and certificate will be sent before the 10th December. Now it's just a matter of revising the stories on behalf of bubok and the readers, in case there's something that needs to be tweaked, illustrate them, do the book's layout and design the front cover, next to nothing!

We'll keep you informed of any news, See you soon!

Winners Micro-story Contest ::: 5th edition

Once again, thank you to all those who participated: this includes all of you who have given ideas, the Blogs that have collaborated with us, those who have written on your own personal blogs and of course those who have “tweeted” about it. We love reading your stories and see where you can go with just a simple presentation of an illustration. Some day we will do a book with all the micro-stories that you have offered in the different editions we've gone through. :]

In total we have recieved almost 100 proposals on 7 different blogs, 5 spanish and 2 foreign. You can see them all on the list of stories and winners that we've uploaded on our web. [only in spanish]

As for our winners, these are the decisions:

- Acuatica: Eolo, the wind catcher, written on Solo pienso en camiestas.
- Flánagan: For the name “Bluby Birdo”, written on Raza Becaria.

As well as the 2 winners previously mentioned, to every one we will send a surprise pack of 4 new articles of our new Characters that we will bring up next week, there are more prizes to give out that you can see in our list of stories and winners:

- 2 winners per Blogs will take home a surprise t-shirt each.
- Prizes to the best Blogs: we will give out to Viste Adecuadamente and to Raza Becaria a pack of surprise articles each for being the first and second blogs with the most ideas out of all those who participated.
- Twitter Prizes: a surprise tee shirt to Jlau628 and another to Sunsioneta.
- Secondary Blog Prizes: a surprise tee shirt to Mameluco, another to Prosopopeya divagante, and another to I told you so!!. By the way, you must read those blogs =P

We're having some difficulties in finding all the blogs that wrote about our contest, because they didn't linked to the article on this blog. There is still a tee shirt to hand out. If you wrote about it, please leave a comment.

We will be in contact with you all via e-mail sometime during this week, or if not during the next week, although you can take a look at all the winners in the aforementioned list of stories and winners.

And for all those who participated but did not win, don't worry because there are presents for all:

- Proposed ideas: 25% discount coupon. It will be published on the blog you participated with. Tomorrow we'll make 'em and we will send them to the each of the bloggers, so then can after publish it on their respective blog.
- Twitter: 25% discount coupon. All those who weren't winners, we will send you a personalized coupon by a Direct Message. Be on the look out!
- Secondary Blog prizes: 50% discount coupon. We will send the personalized coupon via your blogs to those who did not win.

If you are one of the previously mentioned and do not receive one in the next few days, please contact us because there's a slight chance that we either forget to include you or our messages have somehow ended up in the dreaded Spam folder. It's just that neither Google nor Microsoft nor Yahoo care about us ;]

Thank you to all and until the next contest!

Tolky Monkys little nudge...

Just like in our previous contest, to encourage you to write that story you have in mind and are too embarrassed because you think it may not be good enough, we're going to raffle out discount coupons to ALL the participants, without sortition, just for leaving an idea:

• If you have proposed an idea: 25% discount coupon.
• If you've publicized the contest through Twitter: 25% discount coupon.
• If you write a blog post announcing the contest with a link to our blog and our Tolky Monkys page: 50% discount coupon.

The coupons will be handed over when the winners are chosen and can't be accumulated. Only one coupon will be given out, even if you write several ideas, which will be valid only once. But, you will be able to use it in out all products without exception: boy t-shirts, girl t-shirts, hoodies, polo shirts and posters.

So now you know, stop waiting to have the perfect draft and propose something already, 'cause the important thing is to have fun and enjoy reading everybody's quirks. This isn't work. Here we won't say “you must do better than this Smith”. The story is probably a lot better than you imagine. It's like those times we had to go to an exam thinking we would flunk and then pass with an A+ =P

The blogs where you can participate in are:

- Cottonable [English]
- Oink el rellano [Spanish]
- Raza Becaria - Blog de La Sexta [Spanish]
- Si, lo se [Spanish]
- Solo pienso en camisetas [Spanish]
- T-shirts Around the Internet [English]
- Viste Adecuadamente [Spanish]

Remember you have until the 22nd of October. At 12 at night it'll close and we'll start to judge the stories.

View rules and prizes of the contest.
View an sample story for the Character.

Microstories Contest - 5th edition

As usual in these dates, new Characters births are taking place at Tolky Monkys, and we need your help to put them a name and create a story for one of them.

From October 12th till 22nd of the same month, you may propose your ideas in several blogs. This blue being of the image hasn´t got neither name or story, only a provisional one (you can find it out in our front page site). Each one of you may propose a name and a short story, no longer than 250 words per comment. Remember that it´s a M-I-C-R-O-S-T-O-R-Y. The number of comments per each person is not limited but the quantity of the total ideas to be received is limited up to 300 comments for the whole participants blogs, so you better be quick.

The blogs where you would be able to participate from today October 12th are:

- Cottonable [English]
- I love your t-shirt [English]
- Oink el rellano [Spanish]
- Raza Becaria - Blog de La Sexta [Spanish]
- Si, lo se [Spanish]
- Solo pienso en camisetas [Spanish]
- T-shirts Around the Internet [English]
- Viste Adecuadamente [Spanish]

On Thursday 22nd the contest will be closed and among all the received proposals we will choose:

• The best name
• The best story

For each winner, there will be a pack of 4 Tolky Monkys items to choose among the new collection to be released on October 2009. Besides, in each blog and store, we´ll choose among all the participants 2 people that will win a surprise t-shirt or polo shirt.

View rules and prizes of the contest.
View an sample story for the Character.

And if this wouldn´t be enough, in this edition you can also win prizes just for spreading the word about the contest. How? Very easy:

Do you write a blog? In that case you can talk about the Tolky Monkys´ Contest before October 19th. In the post you´ll have to make pingback to this post, link to their our web [www.tolkymonkys.com] and invite to participate any of the participant Blogs. 4 t-shirts will be drafted among all those bloggers.
Do you have a Twitter? You just have to ReTwitt this sentence before October 19th: “@Tolky_Monkys Microstories Contest. Propose short stories for a new Character and get t-shirts FOR FREE ::::: RT this and win t-shirts”. If you do this, you will enter in the draw of another 2 t-shirts.
Do you have both blog and Twitter? Even better. You´ll have double possibilities of getting a prize ;]

We hope you enjoy!!

20 stories received and 9 remaining days to send in yours

As the majority of you who read this blog will probably know, on the 3rd of September we launched with Bubok, a platform of free books auto-publication, the first edition of the Tolky Monkys Short Story Contest. The goal is to publish a book at Christmas with short stories and illustrations of our Characters. Sweet, right?

18 days into the contest and 9 days to close, the time has come to make a first evaluation. For now, we have received 20 short stories of good quality, although we're very aware that “Spain is different” and that the server will be filling up in the last couple of days ;] How do we know this? It's easy, because up until now there have been more than 800 people who have read the rules and have been interested in our Characters for the contest. The truth is, we're really looking forward to choosing the winners, so we can start illustrating the book. It's going to be incredible!!

If you're still mulling over the idea of participating, stop mulling and go ahead. Better to think about a story idea instead of weather or not to participate ;] Like our grandparents always told us: “It's better late than never”. Publishing a book this Christmas with drawings of our Tolky Monkys Characters is definitely a good thing. Don´t wait more! ;]

Remember, you have until the night of September the 30th to present your story. You can upload it to Bubok or send it to info[at]tolkymonkys[dot]com. In this sense, and since we've been getting a lot of questions, we've created a little manual in which we explain the steps you should follow when uploading your story to Bubok so you can enter it in the contest:

Download the manual to publish the story [Only in Spanish]

And if you need to refresh your memory, visit contest section to better inform yourselves [Only in Spanish]:

See Contest Rules | See Characters availables for the Contest
Visit the Bubok blog | Know Bubok

T Day – Tonight we await you in the Twestival of Madrid

As we told you a few days ago, today will be celebrated the 2nd edition of the Twestival of Madrid, an event that aims to bring together Tweeps from Madrid and it's outskirts, so that they can have a chance to meet with people with whom they speak by means of 140 characters at a time only. Additionally, this event shall be used to help out an NGO to achieve some social work. In this case, the funds raised will be donated to the “Federation of Animal Welfare and Protection of the region of Madrid”

We remind you also that there will be a Tolky Monkys t-shirt raffle among all you attendees. Not bad, huh? And for all of those who helped publicize this little shin dig, wherever you may be from, we will jog your memory and remind you that if you post a RT of this phrase, you'll have a chance to win another 2 tees:

"This Thursday 10th of September you should go to @MadridTwestival ::: RT and win free t-shirts of @Tolky_Monkys http://bit.ly/W1fLR"

See y'all there!!

A few tips for writing Short Stories

As you already know, a couple of days ago we launched the first of our Short Story Contests with the help of Bubok. Since we are well aware that writing is a difficult task - especially the starting-off stage and facing that damn blank paper - and that some of you will have doubts about the key points, here we will copy some advice that our fellow bubokeers have posted on their blog.

1. Think of an idea and build the plot up around it. Outline the action:
> Beginning. Capture the readers' interest.
> Plot
> Ending. The finale is very important. It ought to be surprising.

2. Keep the plot well strung together.
3. Stay away from rhetoric and digression. Keep to the point!
4. Instead of explaining things in detail, play around with subtle suggestions.
5. Keep the narration interesting at all times.
6. Add an adjective only to the indispensable.
7. Stay away from periphrasing and circumlocution. (don't beat around the bush)
8. Choose adequate words. (There's nothing wrong with relying on an online dictionary http://www.rae.es/rae.html)
9. Avoid cacophonies and repetitions.
10. Find inspiration in the physical traits of the character that you have chosen, to work on their psychological characteristics and personality.
11. Don't explain, allow your character to do it.

We hope that these little literary tips help you achieve a better story for the Character that you like the most. You all know that you can write to us or leave a comment at any time ;]

See the Characters for the Contests
See the Complete Rules

Short Story Contest Tolky Monkys – Bubok ::: 1st Edition

Hello again! We hope you've all gained strength this summer and that the holidays have served to recharge your creative batteries to the max!

A few days ago we started off backing up the Twestival Madrid, so today we announce our decision to publish a book for Christmas with stories and illustrations of our Characters.

With this goal in mind, we're launching a short story contest with a hand from Bubok, a platform of free autopublication, where anyone can be their own Editor and make their dream of publishing a book come true, written with his own hand. Yes, you read correct, A-N-Y-O-N-E can do this. And why with these guys? Because they have a fantastic community of writers and because once written, illustrated and printed into a demo, the book can be put up for sale directly on the it's site. So the question really ought to be: With who, if not them?

All of you who wish to participate have from the 2nd till the 30th of September to dust off your quills and write a story about one of our Characters available for the contest. But bear in mind that not all of them are available for this one. We've selected 15 of them [See list of Characters for the Contest].

A few basic things you will need to take into account before rushing off to write, which are: The number of words should be between 650 and 800, not including the title. There is a maximum of 3 stories per writer and never using more than one Character per story, although you may invent secondary characters if you wish. And one very important thing: be consistent in the existing story of your chosen Characcter. Lastly, to send in the short story, you will have to register at Bubok and upload the story with the name "Concurso Relatos Cortos Tolky Monkys Bubok" [See complete Rules for the Contest].

Out of all the stories we receive, on the 14th of October we will upload the preselection from 25 stories to Facebook so that EVERYONE can vote for them. On the 21st of October the voting will be closed. The three most-voted stories will be included in our book as “The Public's Favourites” and we will chose between 7 and 12 stories to include in it also. In total, we are counting on 10 to 15 stories for this publication.

As prizes, per each winning story, the author will receive:

- Publication of their story alongside name and surname, or pseudonym.
- Tolky Monkys Gift Certificate of 60€, exchangeable for any product of our on-line store.
- A copy of the book, printed and mailed to your home by courtesy of Bubok.
- Promotion and publicity by Bubok and Tolky Monkys in all media at our disposal: Blog, Facebook, Shops, Press releases, etc.

If this has piqued your curiosity and you would like to enter, don't wait another minute to start writing because time has started to fly since the moment we published this post ;] And of course,before you do a thing visit the info section of the contest:

NOTE: This first edition is only for spanish speaking writers. Sorry... =(

See Rules of Contest | See Available Characters
Visit Bubok Blog | Discover Bubok

Win free t-shirts with Twestival Madrid and Tolky Monkys

In our never-failing eagerness to be where you're at, Tolky Mokys have decided to collaborate with the second edition of Twestival Madrid. First thing's first, respond to the question that is inevitably on all your minds: “What the hell is the Twestival Madrid?” Well, this event lies within another bigger festival called Twestival Local, which is just another of the many reasons to reunite youngsters like ourselves in one place, in the case “followers” and “followings” of Twitter, with the requirement that all money raised in this friendly reunion goes to a NGO. In Madrid's case, the money shall be donated to the “Federation of Animal Welfare of the Community of Madrid”. So, it's not just about meeting people, it has a very important social undertone.

And that's why we have decided to participate in it. Yes, it's a party, and yes, there will be live music and we'll drink, but we're also gonna help out, which is cool every now and then ;]

And how do we get involved? Well we've donated 4 t-shirts to hand out during the festival and give you guys another little reason to go, in case lending a hand and drinking is enough incentive =) To win one of these tees, the only thing you have to do is be there, that's right, be there. The entrance fee is a measly 1€ and the drinks are affordable, so money can't be an issue.

The festival is on Thrusday 10th of September in Madrid, and the premises is NeoLabels, who are working their skins off to organize it:

C/ Doctor Fourquet, 20
Metro-Tube: Lavapiés [L3] o Atocha [L1]
Benchmarks: Atocha Station

And to urge you just a tad more and to introduce Twestival Madrid, we're gonna give away another two t-shirts those of you who RT on your Twitter this exact phrase:

"Count me in for @MadridTwestival :: http://bit.ly/3sTa3e :: RT and win free t-shirts of @Tolky_Monkys http://bit.ly/W1fLR"

The prize winners for ReTwittering will be announced the same date as the Festival. If you're there, you can pick up your tee on the spot, and if not, not to worry, you can always come on over to our humble studio on Montera St. To pick it up.

Important: You will not have more participation entries for Retwittering more than once. Only one tweet will be accounted for, although we do appreciate lots of RT. And for goodness sake, take away the speech marks when you do ;]

So you all know what to do, go off and RT and we'll await you at the festival.

Buy Ticket in Amiando
See location on Google Maps

Illustration Contest Winners - 2nd Edition

Hello again metal friends. We were able to publish the winners of the Illustration Contest that we did along with the Art and Design magazine this June. The what? You know, the drawing contest... [You can check out the details in the previous post.] We're doing this because it's already been published and most of you have seen the results, but since some of you don't buy the magazone... We're sorry for the looooooooong wait, but paper takes its time =)

In this edition, more than 50 of you artists have ventured to present your version of our Characters and, together with the magazine's editorial office, we chose 10 winners to whom we shall give out 23 of our products: t-shirts and other gear to wear and decorate our liveliness.

BEST TECHNIQUE

- First Prize: Hip Hoso | Artist: Olivier Fritsch Gómez
- Second Prize: Unai VS ninja peanuts | Artist: Ruth2m
- Third Prize: Unai, Ariane and Morgan | Artist: Miguel Delicado

THE FUNNIEST

- First Prize: Stone Boy doesn´t want Slot as friend | Artist: Efele Tarodo
- Second Prize: Hepane needs tablets [Hepastillero] | Artist: Francesco Ferreti

RUNNERS UP

- First: Ariane, the half-eaten mermade. From Oscar Solas.
- Second: Otto, the self-destructive octopus. From Marc García.
- Third:Unai, the samurai monkey. From Alberto Padierna Quintana.
- Fourth: Lucia isn´t afraid of ghosts. From Irene Esteve Sorribes.
- Fifth: Ozzy, funkadelic oriental. From Josep Pérez Campins.

Besides these winners, we have decided to reward the rest of the participants with a 30% discount coupon for any purchases from our on-line store. We would like to somehow compensate the time you've dedicated to prepare your drawings. And don't worry because we still have everybody's contact info, so we'll be contacting you this week to give you your coupons. So, be on the inbox alert, we don't want our coupons to end up in the “Spam” folder.

We will display below some of the winners. In a few days we'll also post some others on our Flickr. We hope you like them! Thanks to everyone for participating!

FIRST PRIZE – BEST TECHNIQUE [Hip Hoso] - See Tolky Monky Character
Artist: Olivier Fritsch Gómez | Web: www.ofgms.com

SECOND PRIZE – BEST TECHNIQUE [UNAI against the ninja peanuts]
See Tolky Monkys Character
Artist: Ruth2m | Web: ruth2m.com

FIRST PRIZE - FUNNIEST [Stone Boy doesn´t want Slot as friend]
See Tolky Monkys Character
Artist: Miguel Delicado | Web: cosasveces.blogspot.com
P.S: If you have read this and you're one of the poeple who weren't notified on time, you may be thinking "Hey, I wouldn've like to participated!" or "How could I have found out on time?" and from now on we notify: First, this is the second edition, so it's very likely that next year we will be repeating it around the same dates, so you can write it in. And second, we usually organize contests here, so if you pass by here now and then or if you subscribe via RSS [the purple square to your right] you'll find out before anyone else :] See you soon!

Tshirtday Contest - And the winner is...

After reading all the comments with your stories, we´ve decided that the winner of the t-shirt and the Tolky Monkys´ caricature is... Coty, for his multiple personalities of the Pulpillos Horde. Congratulations!! We´ll contact you very soon.

And for the rest, thanks a lot for participating. We know that everyone has a Tolky Monkys´Character inside. This is just another proof ;] Ah, and don´t worry because you´ll have more chances to get one of our Characters for free.

International T-shirt day competition

As you would know, Tolky Monkys creates and develops Characters. Although this is true, is also true the fact that nowadays most of our products in which we commercialize these Characters are t-shirts. Due to this, we´ve decided to join the celebration of the International T-shirt Day of the 21st June.
What are we going to do? We´re going to participate in the contest that Tee Junction is undertaking with other t-shirt brands. They have been celebrating small contests and today is our turn. To participate is really easy. You just have to read the stories of our Characters and leave a comment at this post writing down to which Tolky Monkys´ Character you look like and why. We are talking about personality, not physical appearance ;]

What can you win? The winner will get a t-shirt and a caricature with the Tolky Monkys´ style. So, if you participate, besides leaving a comment, you must send us a photo to tshirtday[at]tolkymonkys[dot]com.

On Monday 22nd we´ll publish the winner, so pay attention.

LET´S PARTICIPATE!!

Tolky Monkys Illustration Contest - 2nd edition

One more time, and this the second [view some of the winner illustrations of the past edition], we are organizing the Tolky Monkys Illustration Contest in association with the "Arte y Diseño" magazine. Maybe you know it and if not, with this name you don´t need any explanations. You can visit either their site or blog to know them better.

The contest will be publish on numbers 116 and 117. The first one is available from now on. As in the last year, to participate in this contest you need a lot of imagination and illustration skills. You´ll have to visit our site, search the Character which inspires you most and make a version either in an existent situation or a new one. The images must be sent before August 5th via mail or by postal mail to the magazine ayd[at]mcediciones[dot]com or Pg. Sant Gervasi 16-20 Barcelona. Once the deadline for the reception of the illustrations is reached, a jury formed by Tolky Monkys and Arte y Diseño will choose the prizewinners.

To participate you must live either in Europe or America. The illustrations [maximum 3 per person], can be done using any artistic design technic, but must be sent in digital format, have a 300dpi resolution, maximum size of 50cm * 70cm or viceversa and being in CMYK. All the illustrations sent might be used by Tolky Monkys to carry out exhibitions or any other type of events. However, they won´t be used to be printed on t-shirts or any kind of format for its commercialization. This is important, cause in any case we want to take profit of this contest. We just want to have fun with all of you ;]

And what is more important, the prizes. There will be different categories and in each one, there will be several winners. Besides, there will be several accesits that will be given following undetermined criterias, so don´t try to understand them.

1] BEST TECHNIC: A Tolky Monkys´ pack to choose by the winners among the items available at the site in the moment that we publish the results. 3 winners.

- 1st prize..: 6 items.
- 2nd prize: 4 items.
- 3rd prize: 2 items.

2] THE FUNNIEST: A Tolky Monkys´ pack to choose by the winners among the items available at the site in the moment that we publish the results. 2 winners.

- 1st prize..: 4 items.
- 2nd prize: 2 items.

3] ACCESITS: Give away of 5 surprise t-shirts among all the participants. 5 winners. One t-shirt per each.

Find out all the Tolky Monkys Characters
Visit the Tolky Monkys Store
Visit Arte y Diseño Blog
Download the news of the contest in the magazine [spanish]
View some of the winners of the 1st edition at the Flickr

Microstories Contest - At last, the winners...

First of all, we want to thank everybody for participating. This includes all the readers that have written ideas, the collaborating blogs, the bloggers that have talked about the contest at their personal blogs and those of you who have twitted.

The total amount of proposals have been 15o in 9 different blogs. You can have a look at our site for the whole list of stories and winners. Besides, we have counted 27 people that have twitted and 17 personal blogs in which you have posted about the contest.

About the winners, this are our decissions:

- Hombre Revenido: Story of Duble Nuble, written at Raza Becaria
- Airikkala: Name of "Eggeater Mucus and Blind Mucus", written at Raza Becaria.

These two winners will win each of them a Tolky Monkys pack composed of 4 items to choose among the catalogue that will be released on April. Besides, there are a bunch of prizes to give away. You can have a look at the list of the stories and winners to see all the winners:

- 2 winners per blog that will get a surprise t-shirt each.
- Prizes best Blogs: We will give "Oink el Rellano" and "Viste Adecuadamente" a Tolky Monkys pack as they have been the first and second blog with more ideas among all the collaborating blogs.
- Twitter Prizes: A surprise t-shirt for mega_zoi, teeconnoisseur, adrianmanc y _Elu.
- Premios Blogs Secundarios: A surprise t-shirt for Talamaska, OFGMS, Zurmis y Thunderfrogs.

We´ll contact all of you via mail during the next two weeks.

And for those of you that haven´t get any prize, there are discount coupons for everyone:

- Proposed ideas: Coupon 25% off. It will be published at the blog where you participated. Tomorrow we´ll create it and we´ll send to bloggers of each blog.
- Twitter: Coupon 25% off. We´ll send you a direct message through Twitter with your personal coupon. Pay attention!
- Secondary Blogs: Coupon 50% off. We´ll send you a personal coupon through your blog.

If any of you don´t receive the coupon in the next two days, please write us cause maybe we haven´t taken you into account.

Thanks a lot!! See you in the next contest!!

Microstories Contest - Winners announcement postponed

We are really sorry, but we are oblige to postpone the winners announcement of our nice contest. We have run as much as we can, but time has won again to the Tolky Monkys team. Next Monday March 23th we promise you´ll have fresh news.

See you!

Microstories Contest: Coupons for everyone

To give you a little push and to encourage to launch that story you have in mind but we know you ashamed because you dont know if it’s going to be good enough, we have decided we are going to give away coupons to ALL participants, without lotteries, just to leave an idea:

• If you had propose a story or you do it: Coupon 25% off.
• If you spread the word of the contest through Twitter: Coupon 25% off.
• If you write at your blog a post announcing the contest and linking to the Tolky Monkys web page: Coupon 50% off.

Coupons will be delivered when winners have been published. These coupons are not accumulative and will be valid only once. If you write several proposals, only one coupon will be delivered. It may be used in all our products: boys t-shirts, girls t-shirts, hoodies and sweatshirts, polo shirts and posters.

This can not be more attractive. Don´t wait to have the perfect story and make your proposal for once, what really matters is to laugh a while and to enjoy the paranoia that we all have. Surely then the story is better than you think.

Blogs where you may participate are:

- Hide your Arms [english]
- I love your t-shirt [english]
- Oink el rellano [spanish]
- Raza Becaria - Blog de La Sexta [spanish]
- Shirtspotting [german]
- Si, lo se [spanish]
- Solo pienso en camisetas [spanish]
- Tee Junction [english]
- Viste Adecuadamente [spanish]

Remember that the contest will be closed on March 12th at the blogs and March 14th in stores.

Read rules and prizes of the contest.
Read Character story and name of example.
View store list to participate.

Latest news Microstories Contest and an explanation

We are now in the fifth day of the contest and everything is running perfect. We are very close to the 100 ideas for the whole blogs included, either for name or story. If you want to participate, you have till March 12th through blogs and March 14th through the stores.

The blogs where you can participate are:

- Hide your Arms [English]
- I love your t-shirt [English]
- Oink el rellano [Spanish]
- Raza Becaria - Blog de La Sexta [Spanish]
- Shirtspotting [German]
- Si, lo se [Spanish]
- Solo pienso en camisetas [Spanish]
- Tee Junction [English]
- Viste Adecuadamente [Spanish]

Besides, we´re really happy because people are talking very much about the contest through their personal blogs and twitters. For those of you who wants to have much more chances to win FREE T-SHIRTS, till March 10th you can write in your personal Blogs linking to the post of the contest in our Blog or in your Twitter. Remember that we´ll draw 4 t-shirts among the first ones and another 4 t-shirts among the second ones. Read the complete info on how to participate in the previous post.

And now the explanation: If any of you writes in your blog about the contest, one of the things you must do is a "pingback" from your post to our post of the contest. Making pingback is just create a link to the post. Nothing more. We know the word "pingback" has created a few confussions. We´re really freaks. ;]

Read rules and prizes of the contest.
Read Character story and name of example.
View store list to participate.

Once again... Tolky Monkys Microstories Contest

With or without crisis, new Characters births are taking place at Tolky Monkys, and we need your help to put them a name and create a story for each one of them.

From March 2nd till 14th of the same month, you may propose your ideas in several blogs and in a few stores in Spain. This… creature?... of the image hasn´t got neither name or story, only a provisional one (you can find it out in our front page site). Each one of you may propose a name and a short story, no longer than 250 words per comment. The number of comments per each person is not limited but the quantity of the total ideas to be received is limited up to 300 comments for the whole participants blogs and stores, so you better be quick.

The blogs where you would be able to participate from tomorrow March 3rd are:

- Frizzi Frizzi [Italian]
- Hide your Arms [English]
- I love your t-shirt [English]
- Oink el rellano [Spanish]
- Raza Becaria - Blog de La Sexta [Spanish]
- Shirtspotting [German]
- Si, lo se [Spanish]
- Solo pienso en camisetas [Spanish]
- Tee Junction [English]
- Viste Adecuadamente [Spanish]

On Thursday 12th the contest will be closed to the blogs and on Saturday 14th to the stores and among all the received proposals we will choose:

• The best name
• The best story

For each winner, there will be a pack of 4 Tolky Monkys items to choose among the new collection to be released on April 2009. Besides, in each blog and store, we´ll choose among all the participants 2 people that will win a surprise t-shirt or polo shirt.

View rules and prizes of the contest.
View an example story for the Character.
View stores list.

And if this wouldn´t be enough, in this edition you can also win prizes just for spreading the word about the contest. How? Very easy:

Do you write a blog? In that case you can talk about the Tolky Monkys´ Contest before March 10th. In the post you´ll have to make pingback to this post, link to their our web [www.tolkymonkys.com] and invite to participate any of the participant Blogs. 4 t-shirts will be drafted among all those bloggers.
Do you have a Twitter? You just have to ReTwitt this sentence before March 10th: “@Tolky_Monkys Microstories Contest. Propose short stories for a new Character and get t-shirts FOR FREE ::::: RT this and win t-shirts”. If you do this, you will enter in the draw of another 4 t-shirts.
Do you have both blog and Twitter? Even better. You´ll have double possibilities of getting a prize ;]

We participate in "Si, lo se" 3rd birthday

Though is likely that many of you already know this blog, we´ll tell you to introduce it that "Si, lo se" is one of those blogs, a spanish one, that shows us every day peculiar and different products. And what´s the best? It doesn´t show only one each day, but a few, so you should visit it frecuently so you don´t get lost among the latest news they write about daily. We do ;]

It´s been three years since they began writing about all this stuff. We could say they´ve already grown up. And to celebrate it nothing better than a contest, one of those that we know you like much. They are going to give away different items, some Tolky Monkys´ Characters included, among those people who leave a comment letting them know which one is the "most original, odd and uncommon gift" someone can do, besides from a Tolky Monkys´ Character of course...

More info directly at their blog.