7/12 – WritersWeekly 24-Hour Short Story Contest

Our Writing Contest of the Week features contests that are:

  1. Inexpensive for the broke-ass artist to enter. We look for contests that cost $20 or less and prefer no-fee contests.
  2. Offering decent cash-money prizes. What’s decent is open to interpretation, but significant compensation to us is at least twice the entry fee, and preferably more. So minimum $40 and up.
  3. Going to raise a writer’s profile with publication on a legit site with a decent readership. Maybe you’ll be published on someone’s personal blog, but you’ll get $100 for it and rights revert back to you. That’s still damn good, in our opinion.

Barring these standards, we’ll also include contests where the prize is non-monetary but beneficial to writers, i.e. books or otherwise writing-related prizes, so long as there’s no entry fee and the contest’s rules aren’t overly punishing. After all, why slave over a perfectly constructed piece only to have all your rights taken over by a contest that’s never gonna do anything with it?

WritersWeekly 24-Hour Short Story Contest

WritersWeekly sponsors a quarterly writing contest with a 24-hour deadline. Prompts are assigned at the start of the contest, which for the Summer quarter is taking place on Saturday July 24, and entrants then have 24 hours to complete a short story using the prompt. Stories must in some way relate to the prompt (so there’s no pre-writing allowed), though creativity is encouraged. Prizes include the following:

  1. First Place takes $300 cash, publication on WritersWeekly.com, plus a Freelance Income Kit
  2. Second Place takes $250 cash, publication and a Freelance Income Kit
  3. Third Place takes $200 cash, publication and a Freelance Income Kit

20 Honorable Mentions will also receive a one-year subscription to The Write Markets Report AND one Booklocker e-book of their choice. Randomly drawn winners will also receive 60 door prizes from the selection of e-books listed.

For full details and to pay the $5 entry fee, please see the WritersWeekly website here.

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