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You Are Here
Write a story entirely in second person that puts the reader somewhere they aren't supposed to be.
$1,000 Grand Prize
2 days left
October
Write a poem that makes October feel like a place you can enter.
$1,000 Grand Prize
9 days left
Dead Air
Write a horror story about a broadcast, recording, phone call, or transmission that should not exist.
$1,000 Grand Prize
16 days left
Scroll No More
Imagine that every smartphone in the world suddenly stops working. Write about what happens next.
$1,000 Grand Prize
23 days left
No One Remembers It That Way
Write about a memory that you and someone else remember completely differently.
$1,000 Grand Prize
30 days left
Steal From Yourself
Return to something you wrote years ago and use one idea, image, character, or line from it to create something entirely new.
$1,000 Grand Prize
37 days left
Not on the Menu
Write about something memorable you ate that you'd never find on a restaurant menu.
$1,000 Grand Prize
44 days left

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Negative Space
Write a poem shaped by what's missing. Let an absence, omission, or empty space become as important as what you put on the page.
$1,000 Grand Prize
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