Hi All,

Just to let you know the gremlins behind the scenes at Magickal Kingdom have been waving their magickal wands around to make MK even better than before. Unfortunately you may notice a few teething problems during the first week but these will be ironed out straight away.



I'll keep you posted with the updates as they happen.

There are times when members of our community get the recognition they deserve for their talents, and news today proves this yet again. Akela, our most prolific poet of recent times shared some great news with me yesterday, as he announced that his work is now in production for a major book release! Although technically available only in India at the moment, I'm sure it won't be long until it is released worldwide. We'll keep you updated on the news here on MK.

Once again, on behalf of the Magickal Kingdom, I wish you all the success of your book launch and our praise and congratulations are with you!

Well, it was time for a facelift, and we've updated the default theme for the site. We hope you like this one and comments and criticism is welcome. But please bare with us as there's a few bugs still in the system, like the shoutbox is displaying yet (it'll be on a few days Akela haha  ) and the text where it says welcome user etc needs moving as well as the top banner extending but we'll get it sorted as soon as we can.

If you don't like the theme, or you prefer another you can always change it by going to the Profile button at the top left, going to Themes and Layout Preferences and then changing the theme from there.

Hello everyone.

I just finished transferring MK to a different server.  There is a possibility that some of you will still see the MK that resides on the old server while the new nameservers for the domain propagate.  I know that one post from Akela was already lost in the switch, but that's all that I am aware of.  There is a chance that if you see the old MK (which will me missing this post) then any posts you make there will be lost.

There may be a few bits that I overlooked in the move, so if you notice any problems using the forums, just reply to this message and I'll try to take care of it promptly.

Okay, so MK isn't really becoming a pay-for site.  It will remain free.  Sorry if we scared anyone with our rather tasteful and extremely witty April Fools Day joke.  You can still pay us if you really, really want to, but it is not necessary to use and peruse this site.

Have a nice day.

Congratulations to Lori S. Maynard who wins the Final of MK Summer Competition 2006 with her entry, Journey. The Silver Award Goes to Jeannerené for her stunning photo Surrender and Running Wolf for Queen of the yard.

Congratulations to all the winners and a big thank you to all those that entered this year. We look forward to more fantastic entries next year.

We have a winner of Round 2, The Visual Arts, of MK Summer Competiton. And the winner is:

Surrender - Jeannerené

Well done Jeannerené, you get the Visual Arts Trophy, and go through to the MK Summer Competition Final with Leah and Running Wolf from this heat. Well done to all who entered this year, the quality of the work has been astounding.

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1st Place - Surrender - Jeannerené
Joint 2nd Place - Babies Of Summer - Leah
Joint 2nd Place - Queen of the yard - Running Wolf.

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The votes have been counted and we have a winner of the first round of the MK Summer Competition:

Journey - Lori S. Maynard [/size]

Congratulations to Lori S. Maynard who receives the MK Summer Poetry/Prose Award 06 and goes through to the final with the runners up, Dove - Baby's Breath , and Akela - Naked .

Well done to all who entered, next round is the photography/digital art/traditional art, so get voting people!

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Winner - Lori S. Maynard - Journey
2nd Place - Dove - Baby's Breath
3rd Place - Akela - Naked

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The winner of the prose in Less than 50 Words is.........

Supasalt with "No Gasoline"


“Come on love; Push, Push, Push”
“I am pushing as hard as I can” she screamed through gritted teeth.
“I can see the top, keep pushing.”
“It is so close”.
Looking into her eyes I see the pain.
“You’re so close now.”
“Next time, please don’t forget! Put gasoline in!”

Congratulations to Supasalt who's winning entry Easter Is Upon Us won with a resounding 55.6% and even scooped the independent Judges award. Thank you to all of you who voted, remember every vote counts. Here are the results:

• 1st - Easter Is Upon Us - Supasalt
• 2nd - Forgotten Easter - Sound
• 3rd - Egg-like - Lori S. Maynard

• Judges Award - Easter Is Upon Us - Supasalt.