The wait is over! The Ambys are back with a fresh new vibe, ready to spread across (and beyond) the Wattpad universe. This year promises more llamazing stories, which we'll showcase across various genres and categories.

(X) CLOSED for new entries / first five prompt chapters are due by midnight EST on August 31st. (GMT -5) Welcome to The Ever-Generating Story Awards! TEGSA 2026 is here! Can you craft an entire storyline based on ten prompts in a specific order? It's not as hard as it sounds. (Really, it's not.) A song will be assigned to each of your ten main chapters. You may use their titles, the names of the songwriters/performers, or meanings to create your prompt. The best part? You have the freedom to interpret them in any genre you want. You know the prompts are calling your name. Are you ready? (Fanfiction is welcome as long as it's read as a stand-alone, and readers do not need prior knowledge of the original fiction to read it.)

|| CLOSED & JUDGING || Tired of contests never having poetry? Well, that changes today. Welcome to The Slam Dunk Poetry Contest, where this is an awards for poetry only. It will have 11 categories, so plenty of chances to submit! There are no payments, so this is a 100% free contest. Participants will receive prizes just for signing up, though of course placements will receive exclusive prizes. So, are you ready? Let's dive in!

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!

Remember how I always said I never wanted to host an award? Ever? Too much work, too much stress, count me out? Oops. It's true. I am hosting an award. No, I am not just doing it as an excuse to make people stickers, although there will be stickers. OH, YES, THERE WILL BE STICKERS. This contest is a celebration of all that is awesomely misfit on Wattpad. Are you in?

Through the scorched hills of Sicily, 1943, a soldier in Company M of the 1st Division, US Seventh Army, contracts malaria in Troina just as the Allies' strategies change and the war's tempo shifts. The Perfumed Letter traces the emotional and physical moments-where battle rages, illness halts movement, letters go unanswered, and a year of silence begins. This becomes the fundamental year of training for Operation Dragoon: a stretch of time suspended between fire and fog, void of letters home, where recovery becomes its own battlefield. Through archival fidelity and sovereign storytelling, Olan L. Smith maps the unseen war behind the war-the one fought in the body, the post, and the heart.

After six years in a progressive French boarding school, eighteen-year-old Lady Alice returns to her family's estate in Surrey, dreading the fate that awaits her-- debutante balls, an arranged marriage, and a life she does not want. She would have preferred to stay in France, teaching and writing love tales rather than living one dictated by others. Once cast aside by her own father and a stepmother, Alice finds their sudden desire for reconciliation hollow. Only her childhood best friend, Michael, Marquess Lovelace, seems like a true comfort. But as she settles back into her former home, something strange begins to happen. A black rabbit, eerily familiar, appears in the shadows-- just like the one that belonged to Edmond, her long-forgotten imaginary friend. And then she meets Count D'Arcy, the enigmatic and elusive neighbour whose presence unsettles her. His eyes, his voice, his very being remind her of Edmond. Could it be him? Or is her mind playing tricks on her? As the social season unfolds, Alice finds herself tangled in a web of mystery, romance, and the supernatural. The past and present blur, forcing her to question what is real, what is illusion, and whether love can exist beyond the bounds of reason. In the haunting halls of her childhood home and under the watchful gaze of Count D'Arcy, Alice must uncover the truth before she loses herself to the unknown. ~~~ Book One of a Duology. Followed by Unravelling Le Comte D'Arcy (coming this autumn).

After betraying the covert Agency that made her, fugitive operative Grace Sumer is hunted across Europe, until the football star she loves finds her, drawing them into a deadly conspiracy that threatens not only their lives, but the future they are desperate to build together. ◈ ◈ ◈ Grace Sumer is on the run from the Agency that raised her to be a weapon, moving across borders to stay out of reach. Hermes Mansi is not a man who gives up. Using every resource at his disposal, he launches a relentless search for the woman he loves, the one who walked away to protect him and his six-year-old son, Drax. Grace has taken refuge in Naples with a powerful Italian mafia family, trying to stay hidden as new dangers close in. When Hermes finally finds her at an elite event in Rome, their reunion sparks more than old feelings. It pulls them into a deadly investigation that exposes corruption at the highest levels of the Agency. With enemies closing in and allies shifting across borders, Grace and Hermes are forced into a race for the truth. But for Hermes, this has never been just about survival. He wants more than to save her. He wants a life with her. And he will chase her across the world until she believes she deserves it. ◈ ◈ ◈ Book two in the Grace Sumer series, sequel to "The Nanny Protocol."