"Fiôvâ Festival ofArt Ends," by Sir Alexandreu Davinescu

The Fiôvâ 201 4 Festival of Art concluded this past week, with provincial citizen D. N. Vercáriâ claiming the grand prize in a competition that highlighted the difficulties Talossan provinces have encountered when trying to encourage activity. The festival organizer and Capitan of the province, Gödafrïeu Válcadác’h, announced at the festival’s close that there had been no entries received for the Short Story or Music competitions, and the Poetry and Graphic Art competitions had only one participant apiece (Vercáriâ, in both cases).

The competition was open for a month for entries, but there was relatively little promotion and all of the entries by the sole participant were even submitted a week after the deadline. Vercáriâ dryly celebrated his victory by ironically commenting, “Here's to the power of competition.”