Any Interest in Monthly Writing Contest?

I have been thinking about the Contest feature on Story Star for a while now. It has not been used since 2023, although it continues to get submissions occasionally.

I was wondering if there was any interest in a monthly contest, driven by a writing prompt, which would result in hopefully several or even more submissions. No points required. Submission could be about any Theme or Genre as long as the story was related to the writing prompt.

My thoughts are that readers would vote for the winner and the winner would be selected as Story of the Week for the following month. Readers could enter Comments about what they liked and did not like about the stories to help us all improve as authors. (FYI: My secret hope here is that people will get more used to commenting on all the stories.)

I might also package the submitted stories as an anthology to publish on Amazon so that each author entering the contest is not only a published author on StoryStar but also on Amazon. Go tell your friends that!

Full Disclosure: Fame but no fortune. So far items that I have published on Amazon have generated less than a dollar of revenue and StoryStar would be keeping all the pennies for the anthology, but the authors still would be getting the bragging rights!

Please let me know what you think in the comments below.