Visitors can print a randomly-selected story by pressing a button on Waldo Library's Story Machine. Submissions are limited to 7,500 characters maximum (including spaces) and are due by Sunday, Nov. 2 ...

Competition deadline: 31st May 2026 The Bridport Short Story Prize is one of the most prestigious awards in the literary ...

Ain’t life grand? That’s what Stories On Stage artistic director Anthony Powell thinks, and his group has just announced a new writing contest with that theme. Stories on Stage is looking for upbeat ...

PLAINFIELD, IL — The Plainfield Area Public Library launched a story contest for elementary students just in time for winter ...

In the 37 years of the Illustrators of the Future Contest, there have been 418 winners. The past winners of the Illustrating ...

I struggled to get my first novel, “The Beasts They Turned Away,” published. It was set on a dairy farm, embraced the Gothic, and included a lot of details about agriculture. It took a year and a half ...

The Pioneer Library System has announced the finalists for The Big Read: Old School Short Story Writing Contest. The winners for a high school division and a college division will be selected by ...

This year's contest, which focused on mystery/suspense writing and was judged by News reporters and editors, elicited some truly clever plots. Of the grand-prize winning story, "Luna Island," one ...

The Wheatland Regional Library has announced the winners of its annual short story writing contest, which ran from Sept. 1 to ...

Last January, when we launched the very first Buffalo News Short Story Writing Contest, we thought we'd get 50 or 60 manuscripts from local authors. Were we ever amazed, however, when more than 500 ...