Onc2025 Stories

**ONC SHORTLISTER 2025** Sixteen-year-old Cas is clever, sporty, and on the brink of a bright future at university. His best friend Vish has no such prospects. A painf...

She was a character in a deleted story, now lost and memoryless in the Library Limbo. All she recalls is her former importance. The ghostly librarian offers her a chance...

When college student Celine Marlowe finds a piece of a shattered unicorn horn in the forest, she doesn't expect it to contain ancient magic connecting her to its owner S...

#ONC round 2 award winner 🏆 #Bewitching awards runners up 🏆 What's the worst that could happen when a socially anxious nerd crosses paths with Paramount High's golden...

Diaz hates talking- blame it on her trauma. People mistake her silence for submission. And it is only when she fights back and bears her claws that people realize she is...

The years came and went. Earth is no longer the only planet out there, and adventures are only just beginning for Aurora's crew. Bessie Marvin didn't think she would be...

You remember your first love... Even when they come back from the dead. When Rene Barnett returns to his family's mansion after his father's death, he expects nothing bu...

[ONC 2025 SHORTLISTED] An amnesiac goddess must rewrite her destiny before the evil reaper strikes out her existence. ••• 𝙄𝙣𝙙𝙞𝙖𝙣...

Logline: He's a hopeless romantic, she's romantically hopeless. Together? They're a match made by the gods. --- Love-cursed Verena has never known the pitfalls of true h...

Dorian expected a fortune. Instead, he inherited a library-one that holds more than just books. When a stolen book vanishes, portals to dangerous worlds start ripping op...

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-- debut...

*Borusara AU* Boruto is the next in line to the Uzumaki Empire but with his new mission to get a wife in 60 minutes seems impossible, until he bumps into his high school...

|Round 2 Winner| |Round 3 Ambassador Pick| |Shortlist| Rhiannon "Banjo" Hart is a professional thief working her last ever job. The Hawk has promised a massive...

In a world where books are cursed and words breed demons, Scribe defies the Older Ones by writing "The Chaos Walker"-a tale that takes on a sinister life of it...

Dom is a worldly man who has managed to carve out a path for himself despite his humble origins: He has traveled throughout the Duchy, studied under the tutelage of monk...

Leonna returns to her kingdom with revenge in mind. Against her father, the King, to end his dynasty... & a mission to kill her sister, the captive princess. Her body ho...

*ROUND 2 AMBASSADOR PICK* *SHORTLISTED* Homeless girl, Rosalie, is found on the cold streets of Crausley Sands with nothing but the clothes on her back and a black obsid...

A group that wants to be free, and one person who is willing to do whatever it takes to get there. - After being enslave...

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 beg...

[CLOSED FOR 2025] Astania's ONC book club dedicated to supporting participants with a stress-free, supportive environment. Anyone participating in the ongoing Open Novel...