Challenges
Enter themed storytelling contests to put your creativity to the test. Submit for a chance to win cash, prizes, experiences, donations, and more.
Open Challenges
Challenges you can enter now for a chance to win.
October
Write a poem that makes October feel like a place you can enter.
$1,000 Grand Prize4 days leftDead Air
Write a horror story about a broadcast, recording, phone call, or transmission that should not exist.
$1,000 Grand Prize11 days leftScroll No More
Imagine that every smartphone in the world suddenly stops working. Write about what happens next.
$1,000 Grand Prize18 days leftNo One Remembers It That Way
Write about a memory that you and someone else remember completely differently.
$1,000 Grand Prize25 days leftSteal 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 Prize32 days leftNot on the Menu
Write about something memorable you ate that you'd never find on a restaurant menu.
$1,000 Grand Prize39 days left
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Dóda's Christmas
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Closed Challenges
These challenges are closed for entries. Our judges are reviewing submissions and winners will be selected soon.
You Are Here
Write a story entirely in second person that puts the reader somewhere they aren't supposed to be.
$1,000 Grand PrizeClosedNegative 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 PrizeClosed
