Dear Colleagues, the 27th International Symposium on Graph Drawing and Network Visualization will take place near Prague, Czech Republic, from September 17 to 20, 2019. As has been tradition since 1994, the symposium will be accompanied by a Graph Drawing Contest, allowing all community members to demonstrate their graph drawing skills in a fun competitive setting. The contest has two parts: the Creative Topics and the Live Challenge. 1) Creative Topics For your entertainment and inspiration, we have composed two nice graphs that you may draw with full artistic freedom. The first graph represents the appearances of 28 superheroes in 24 movies of the "Marvel Cinematic Universe". The second graph describes 151 food recipes and their ingredients extracted from the TheMealDB database. In both cases, you may visualize the graph in any way you like. Submissions will be judged on a list of criteria that includes, but is not limited to, readability, aesthetics, novelty, and design quality. The weighting of the criteria might be different for the two graphs. Submissions will be handled through EasyChair. For more details, visit http://graphdrawing.org/gdcontest/contest2019/topics.html Submission deadline: September 05 (23:59 PDT) 2) Live Challenge Following popular tradition, a live challenge will be held during the symposium in a format similar to a typical programming contest. Teams are presented with a collection of challenge graphs and have approximately one hour to submit their highest scoring drawings. This year, the challenge focuses on minimizing the number of crossings in a straight-line upward drawing on a fixed grid. Teams may either draw the graphs manually, or use their own customized tools. Remote participation will also be possible. For more details, visit http://graphdrawing.org/gdcontest/contest2019/challenge.html 3) Awards Thanks to our generous sponsors, a monetary prize will be awarded to up to three submissions in each of the four different categories. We are looking forward to your submissions! Best regards, the Graph Drawing Contest Committee, Philipp Kindermann, Tamara Mchedlidze, and Ignaz Rutter