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Celebrating the Joy of Writing
Crafted with a vision to help others from community to showcase their innermost thoughts to the world in the form of writing.
Fostering talented minds to re-define creativity.
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Our past winners
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Vijeta Tiwari
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Beth Marshall
Sarah Mohammed
Rahul Parwal
Geosley Andrades
Srinivas Kantipudi
Vikrant Joshi
Rajeev Ranjan
William Chu
Super Reads, is a one of a kind Write-A-Thon that aims aiming to help & encourage talented minds from community to showcase their innermost thoughts to the world in the form of writing. As a writer, you have to share your original article with us, we will help you with a unique review process, support you to make it better and finally publishing it to the wider community. It works as a workshop which is meant to polish your writing skills, with the help of top reviewers.
As much as we encourage writers, we want to bring a unique experience for our readers too. Super Reads is crafted according to your tastes to fill your mind with top notch contents. It is a truly global event open for anyone from tech industry.
We are super excited to bring back Super Reads again. After doing amazing initiates that bought difference in creativity in the form of Super Reads 2020, RISE, Teller of Tales and APIs Unleashed.
When? 🗓️
Call for writers is open till 30th November 2021, 11.59 PM IST. Any submissions after this date will not be considered to be part of the event.
Call for Writers Guidelines 📝
This is an opportunity to express your thoughts and share your experience globally with the community. And this time the SYNAPSE QA is not limited to testers only (still the main preference will be testers😉). We are open for contributions from anyone working in tech industry and any topics (Leadership and Management, Productivity, Hacks, Experience Report, Career Journey, Test Automation, Testing in Agile and DevOps, Continuous testing, Test Techniques, Test Management, AI and ML in Testing, Codeless testing, API testing, Mobile Testing, Security Testing, Development Practices, DevOps, Infrastructure, Observability, Accessibility etc. These are just examples, we don’t want you to limit your creativity around these only. Please feel free to think out of the box.
We will handpick 12 best articles among those which will be considered to be part of SUPER READS 2021, and we will help you to make it best version.
We are not keeping any word count for submission, however please make sure that your articles are >500 words. Also, all the entries should be original and not published elsewhere in any other formats.
The article will be reviewed by our expert panel and we will be reaching out to you providing valuable feedback to make it better, if needed. We don’t have rejections, only learnings & improvements so those not selected as part of final 12 articles will be published later as per writer’s choice & permission.
Final confirmation on your articles will be informed to you by 12th December 2021.
Prizes & Benefits 🏆
We recognise your efforts. In addition to being published with other international authors, if your original article is picked as a winner, you will receive cash prizes, certification exams vouchers, digital credentials, swags and many more. We have over $1500 worth prizes to grab 🎉
Winners and prizes will be announced on 1st Jan 2022 as a new year gift for the talented writer in YOU!!!
*Winners will be announced based on reviewers rating + audience feedback after launch + Number of views for your article (until 31st Dec).
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FAQS
- – Spread the word within your network
- – Ask more people to join this event, we have prizes for most number of referrers too!
- – Spread the word on social media using the hashtag #superreads2021 and tag us
- – Be part of the event.
Please share your article via our “Call for Writer” form. Our team will take it up from there. Please join #superreads in Synapse QA Slack Workspace and also keep an eye on the updates & emails.
Please drop us a mail at superreads@synapse-qa.com expressing your interest, we will get back to you at the earliest.
We are sorry 😟. Articles submitted should be original and not published elsewhere, in any other formats.
We don’t have any specific list and we encourage your creativity in choosing the right topic. As for pointers to help with, please find these: Leadership and Management, Productivity, Hacks, Experience Report, Career Journey, An incident in your career, Test Automation, Testing in Agile and DevOps, Continuous testing, Test Techniques, Test Management, AI and ML in Testing, Codeless testing, API testing, Mobile Testing, Security Testing, Development Practices, DevOps, Infrastructure, Observability, Accessibility etc. These are just example categories, we don’t want you to limit your creativity around these only. Please feel free to think out of the box.
Yes, we have over $1500 worth prizes to grab!
Currently, we encourage entries only with more than 500 words, and there is no maximum word limit. However the overall word limit should do justice to the content of your article.
Sure, we encourage all participants no matter if you are new or really experienced one, all writers are welcome, we will have some workshops and consultations in case you need extra help.
No, we are only accepting one entry from a participant. If you have ,multiple ideas please pick the best one among those as we should keep the review process seamless and effective with single entries.
Glad you ask, we value team effort, but this event is only for unique authors; we encourage groups to go solo this time.
You can register for “Sparks” from here.
Sure, you can definitely ask for help. We will always be available and happy to help you throughout. Regarding re-use of ideas, please take note that plagiarism is not allowed, you can refer to other articles or ideas, but we want to know your opinion, be yourself and speak your mind.
Yes, you are welcome to participate again; no matter if you were one of our lucky 12s of last year, you can join in our new Super Reads edition, and good luck.
We don’t reject any article; our mission is to read all articles and provide feedback and help you enjoy the ride; you can send back your articles with some revisions or tiny corrections and even if you didn’t make it to final 12, you will still get chance to publish the article with us along with chances to win. Please consider it as a continuous learning experience and resubmit your article. You can check with us for clarifications.
No worries, if your article is selected, you will receive an email confirming that; please stay tuned and double-check your email information or look for updates in our slack channel.
All the updates and communications will be shared via our slack channel for quick responses, if you are there that would be easier.
About Us
SYNAPSE QA is a community-driven space that aims to foster, support and inspire talents in tech industry(mainly QAs) by bridging the gaps between knowns and unknowns!
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