The Open Novella Contest is back for 2026! Join fellow storytellers and plant the seed of a tale that will blossom into a 20,000+ word novella within 12 weeks! Your epic quest begins February 1st, 2026, so mark your calendars with this date!

A struggling actress, Sera, dies in a bizarre on-set accident involving a chandelier, only to wake up in a fantasy world-as a cat! But not just any cat-she's the beloved pet of the cold-hearted Duke Killian Ravendell, the infamous villain of a novel she once read.