The Open Novella Contest is back for 2025! Join a society of writers and take on the challenge to create a timeless 20,000+ word novella in 12 weeks! Your epic quest begins February 1st, 2025 - so mark your calendars with this date!

[ONC2025] | [Shortlist] Marlot and Ké live in the slum of Cyberion, where they belong to the lowest level of society due to their individual flaws. They fear, but also looking forward with excitement to the 'twenty days of freedom' that will determine their adult future. Outside the gates of Cyberion, they discover that things are very different than they thought. They must choose whether to return to the suffocating tech city or embrace their new - unknown - life. ... Prompt 110: '20 days of freedom'

[ONC2025] | [Ambassador Pick] | [Longlist] Scarlett has it all: the most popular guy in school is her boyfriend, she is slim and pretty, she has enough money to never have to work a day in her life and her classmates look up to her. It's harder work than those jealous bitches realize, but of course she's happy to do that. That's why she's anything but happy when a new girl shows up at school who develops a love-hate relationship with her boyfriend. Caiden pretends not to like the simple, brown-haired girl, but Scarlett has known him longer than today. It doesn't take long before she is pushed aside, after which she has to grit her teeth as Caiden wins Emilia's heart. And it's not only that; even when Scarlett is the main character of this story, other people are steeling the spotlight on hér cover!! It shouldn't be like that, she thinks - she knows! - and that's why the blonde decides to take matters into her own hands. Unfortunately for her, cliché piles on cliché. Will she come out of this story unscathed, even though everything seems to be going wrong? ... Prompt 25: You're not the shy, bookish girl who bumps into the star athlete and wins his heart. No, you're his girlfriend - the blonde, confident cheerleader destined to be the cliché ex. But this time, you're rewriting history and taking control of your story.

This grownup story is not for the faint of heart. Please read when you're eighteen years or older and understand there are some chapters with mature text. It's a fairytale, but purely with boys and with sexual content. And a genie. You get the point, I guess. Once upon a time there was a boy named Aladdin...

||ONC 2025 Short List || The 2000s. The zombie apocalypse has pushed humanity to the brink of extinction. There is no vaccine, hope is fading, and the only way to survive is to kill. But what if you're on the wrong side? What if, instead of fighting the infected, you've become one of them? Amanda Reed refuses to go down without a fight. Trapped in a subway car with a group of strangers, she quickly realizes they all share one terrifying trait-they're infected, yet still human. Surviving, finding a cure, and hiding from the uninfected, who won't stop to ask questions before pulling the trigger... A daunting task for a former journalism student. Is there an escape when all hope seems lost? The countdown has begun. Prompt: 63. A group of humans infected with the zombie virus must protect themselves from zombie hunters while racing to find a cure before it's too late.

Blurb When 14-year-old Eva moves to a new town with her parents, she decides to get a job at the newly opened curio shop named "Mystic Curio Shop". Before asking about the job advertisement, Eva browses through the many shelves, coming upon some paintbrushes. "Hello, I would like one of these," Eva said, pointing to the shelf, only for the shopkeeper to freeze, their eyes narrowing. "Oh, so you can see this shop?" # Story is completed and edited. #All places and people are fictional. #An 'Open Novella Contest 2025' entry. #Prompt 138. »Hello, I would like one of these,« you said, pointing to the shelf, only for the shopkeeper to freeze, their eyes narrowing. »Oh, so you can see this shop?« #This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author's imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.

❝Just one night. Give me that one chance and I promise, you'll never look at the stars the same way again.❞ ── 𝟑𝐗 𝐅𝐄𝐀𝐓𝐔𝐑𝐄𝐃 ── 𝐎𝐍𝐂 𝐑𝐎𝐔𝐍𝐃 𝟏 & 𝐑𝐎𝐔𝐍𝐃 𝟐 𝐐𝐔𝐀𝐋𝐈𝐅𝐈𝐄𝐑 . . . . . ╰──╮ִ❤︎╭──╯ . . . . . 𝐓𝐚𝐞𝐡𝐲𝐮𝐧𝐠. 𝐓𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐜. 𝐓𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐥. Well, what could possibly go wrong? As it turns out, everything when it involves safeguarding the love of his life, the woman he's slowly but surely deeply falling for. Not the rather non-existent figure from his original time, but the radiant woman he seemed to have loved in 1912, in a forgotten past he's desperate to remember. Irene, the girl with summer-sky eyes. Their story becomes trapped within the lament of an ordinary yet magically potent hourglass, set against the tragic voyage of the majestic and the "unsinkable" Titanic, hurtling towards its inevitable, icy fate. Taehyung finds himself torn between his fervent desires - to miraculously alter history as if such a feat were possible or to save the lives of his loved ones who are now victims of his unexpected temporal displacement. All the while, he faces unexpected adversaries and finds his own existence in time profoundly challenged. It is amidst this chaos that Taehyung begins to realize that perhaps everything happens for a predetermined reason, and that, perhaps, for the sake of that very reason, he found himself staring into Irene's strikingly breathtaking eyes - the singular purpose for which he was gifted this extraordinary rebirth. ── .✦── .✦── .✦── .✦── .✦── .✦── .✦── .✦ Central Prompts: A group of people wake up with no memory and find themselves adrift on an old steam passenger liner. Name? Titanic. & You remember loving a woman in 1910s and now you have