Opennovellacontest Stories

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...

The ONC journey can be challenging, but you don't have to go it alone! "ONC Promotion Room 2025" is a community-powered platform designed to lift up new novell...

It all starts with a bouquet of roses. A renowned ballet dancer with her own studio, Lily is miserable in her spiralling career. But when she's delivered flowers by an a...

𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐍𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐚 | 𝐌𝐮𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐅𝐨𝐫 𝐇𝐢𝐫𝐞 𝐒𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬 When Mara Santiago is laid off from work and dumped by her boyfriend, she moves in with...

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Bianca Daleman only has two rules. First, never lose control. And second, never marry anyone until she is certain it won't end in divorce. While in Vegas for her best...

ONC 2025 A sci-fi thriller with a thread of gay romance. Jiro wanted to be a pilot for as long as he could remember. Flying through the stars, what could be more thrill...

Entry-level magic professors aren't supposed to be responsible for fixing the generations-long problems that come from a library haunted by fae. But when the administrat...

one night, Park Jimin got drunk. When he woke up, there was a naked Kim Taehyung next to him. Jimin: Son of a *****! Jimin escaped, resulting in an accident and he died...

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 painfully shy artist, Vish's fu...

It was one bang, Yet two guns fired, One man dead, One man clinging onto life, Never had timing been more correct ~~~ Kimberly grey, a simple girl, clever, caring and...

|| WINNER AMBYS 2022 VAMPIRES CATEGORY || || FEATURED: FOODKART || When single mother and baker Autumn Milford is hired to cater a high-end party in the Berkshires, she...

A young woman who battles deep-rooted insecurities, faces the ultimate test of love and friendship when she discovers the people she trusted the most betrayed her. _____...

BRAITHE is leading a double life. The dutiful princess during the day, at night the masked vigilante fighting back against her parents' abuse of the kingdom's citizens...

Wern Muller is always hungry. Unfortunately, eating for Wern is not as easy as grabbing takeout. Wern can only feed on the traumatic memories of people and animals. It's...

Open Novella Contest Candidate (ONC 2025) Seojin Lee, a highschool senior, dies in a ridiculous accident and wakes up in another world, summoned by a cunning goddess. I...

Combine a mountain filled with rugged orcs with a mysteriously arrived shop serving delicate cups of tea. Could this be the start of a revolution? **** On Orc Mountain...

Lost in The Library of All Things Never Written, Draven searches day and night for his own deleted story before it's forgotten, and he fades out of existence. The task w...

Olive and Sebastian have been best friends since they can remember and are total opposites. Despite everyone around them thinking they would get together, they both thou...