🌑🎼WELCOME TO THE NOCTURNE AWARDS🎼🌑 A space created for stories that linger long after the final line. The Nocturne Awards celebrate emotionally immersive storytelling, haunting atmosphere, powerful prose, and characters that leave their mark on readers forever. Inspired by music, moonlight and the emotions fiction can awaken within us, these awards aim to recognise stories that truly make readers feel. Whether your writing is soft and melancholic, intense and devastating, or beautifully atmospheric, the Nocturne Awards invite you to share the stories that echo the loudest in the dark. 🖤 ~ Every story leaves an echo. ~ 🖤

✦ ─── THE UNHINGED AWARDS ─── ✦ "Because emotional damage deserves recognition." Welcome to the most chaotic, sleep-depriving, mentally unstable Wattpad contest to ever exist. This is not your cute little aesthetic poetry competition. This is where: - villains get simped for - readers stare at walls after plot twists - characters desperately need therapy - couples communicate through trauma and tension - and nobody survives emotionally. Hosted once a year by author @bangtansheshta, this contest is open to EVERYONE: ✦ Fanfiction writers ✦ Original fiction writers ✦ Readers with dangerously strong opinions ✦ Every genre imaginable Whether your story causes: heartbreak, obsession, emotional destruction, screaming at 3 AM, keyboard smashing, or irreversible attachment issues... YOU BELONG HERE. ADD THIS BOOK TO YOUR READING LIST TO STAY ON TRACK WITH THE LATEST UPDATES

𝐎𝐏𝐄𝐍 [🍊] 𝐉𝐔𝐃𝐆𝐈𝐍𝐆 [] 𝐂𝐋𝐎𝐒𝐄𝐃 [] Welcome to a tiny world of fluffy chaos, sleepy cats and talented writers!! The PurBean Awards is a cozy mini awards made for fun and celebrating amazing stories!! Tiny beans. Huge talent. One shared braincell. 🍊🐾

☕︎ Welcome to Coffee & Chapters Contests A cozy little café built for hidden gems, growing writers, emotionally damaging stories, and chapters written at 2 AM instead of sleeping like a normal human bean. Wattpad's algorithm can be cruel sometimes, and many beautiful stories never get the attention they deserve. This book exists to create a small space where writers can share their work, discover new stories, support one another, and maybe find readers who stay till the end. From blurbs, opening lines, aesthetics, and dialogue to plots, characters, and drafts still hiding in your notes app, different themed contests will be hosted here from time to time, each with its own little spotlight. ──── ୨୧ ──── ☕︎ Current Contest Contest #1: The First Sip Best Blurb • Best Opening Line • Best Chapter One Status: Submissions CLOSED. JUDGING. ──── ୨୧ ────

the starfall awards 2026 is a small celebration for the stories that felt like constellations written across the night sky. chosen beneath the stars themselves, only a few will be crowned, but every story is a universe worth getting lost in.

The Celestial Awards celebrate creativity, courage, and the magic of storytelling. Join, share your work, and claim your place among the stars. Step into the cosmos and let your story shine.

Open for Submissions |📖| This is a mini-award with a theme and a twist! If you're old enough to catch the references - you might just be an Old like us! If not, don't worry - the theme is just a part of the fun! Join us for the first Olds Award, and a friendly competition among authors. Judging |(pending)| COMPLETE |(in July '26)| Note: All images for this story are ai generated and are just for fun

✦︵ 𝑯𝒐𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝒃𝒚 𝑳𝒂𝒖𝒓𝒂 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑨𝒎𝒆𝒕𝒉𝒚𝒔𝒕₊˚ 𓆩✧𓆪 The 𝓰𝓪𝓻𝓭𝓮𝓷 is 𝒽𝓊𝓈𝒽𝑒𝒹. Bushes of 𝒹𝑒𝑒𝓅 𝓅𝓊𝓇𝓅𝓁𝑒 𝒷𝓁𝑜𝑜𝓂𝓈 sway with the 𝒸𝒽𝒾𝓁𝓁𝓎 𝓌𝒾𝓃𝓉𝑒𝓇 𝒷𝓇𝑒𝑒𝓏𝑒. ⊹ ࣪ ˖ In the 𝓆𝓊𝒾𝑒𝓉 𝓃𝒾𝑔𝒽𝓉, one flower decides to 𝒷𝓁𝑜𝑜𝓂. It rises amongst its peers with all its might, leaving the rest 𝒶𝓈𝓉𝑜𝓊𝓃𝒹𝑒𝒹. This show of power doesn't go unnoticed, but instead becomes the new 𝓈𝓎𝓂𝒷𝑜𝓁 𝑜𝒻 𝓉𝒶𝓁𝑒𝓃𝓉 - sometimes 𝗴iven, sometimes 𝗲arned. ✧ That symbol, is 𝑩𝒆𝒍𝒍𝒂𝒅𝒐𝒏𝒏𝒂. 𝓑𝓮𝓪𝓾𝓽𝓲𝓯𝓾𝓵, yet 𝓁𝑒𝓉𝒽𝒶𝓁 all the same₊˚ ❅ No matter how 𝒹𝑒𝑒𝓅 the night, or how 𝒸𝑜𝓁𝒹 the breeze, it always finds a way to 𝒷𝓁𝑜𝑜𝓂.ᐟ.ᐟ ⊹ ࣪ ˖ Just like our 𝑾𝒊𝒍𝒅𝒇𝒍𝒐𝒘𝒆𝒓𝒔. No matter how 𝓈𝓂𝒶𝓁𝓁 the voice, or 𝓊𝓃𝓈𝑒𝑒𝓃 the work, they will always have their own space among us.ᐟ.ᐟ ⊹ ࣪ ˖ Without fear of 𝒿𝓊𝒹𝑔𝑒𝓂𝑒𝓃𝓉, without regard for 𝓅𝑜𝓅𝓊𝓁𝒶𝓇𝒾𝓉𝓎. ✦ 𝑩𝒆𝒍𝒍𝒂𝒅𝒐𝒏𝒏𝒂: 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑨𝒘𝒂𝒓𝒅𝒔 is the 𝓃𝑒𝓌 𝓉𝒶𝓁𝑒𝓃𝓉. ₊˚

Open:- [ ] Judging:- [ ● ] Closed:- [ ] Closed. Judging in progress. Thanks for your interest. 🌌 Under this midnight sky, every story becomes a constellation. Midnight Tales Awards, where stories awaken under the hush of midnight and legends are written in ink and shadow.

|| OPEN - POETRY & BOOKS ALLOWED || Looking for more exposure for your work? Look no further than the Candlelight Awards, an awards celebrating all works, whether they be poetry, experimental works, original novels, oneshots, or fanfics! There are few restrictions. LGBTQ+, mature, ongoing, completed, etc. are all welcome here, so take a peek and see if you're ready for Raven's Candlelight 2.0! What you can expect: - No payments (100% free contest; no tagging, follows, or shoutouts required) - A bunch of categories - Solo judging - No AI allowed - Unique prizes - And so, so much more...