Contest Stories

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Professor Edward Keane has spent his life teaching literature at Havenbrook University. When his student, Tiana Henderson, asks him to review her mystery manuscript, he agrees without hesitation. As Edward reads through the draft, certain details begin to feel uncomfortably familiar, blurring the line between imagination and reality. What begins as a simple review soon becomes something Edward cannot ignore. *** THE FINAL DRAFT: STORIES DON'T FORGET THEIR AUTHORS #OpenNovellaContest2026 #ONC2026 Prompt #109

*Sequel to Sycamore High - Road To The World League* After losing the Kalos League finals yet again, Ash feels terrible. Not only did he lose the final, but also he lost 'her'. But now, life decided to throw a massive curveball at him as all of a sudden, a letter from his dad appears and is in professor Oak's possession. Join our hero as he continues his journey to not only find his father, but also to become the very best!

|| CLOSED || Looking for a bite-sized contest with NO payments, cool prizes, and a fast opportunity for a review? Want to have your ONC book reviewed prior to the deadline? Look no further than the March Madness Mini Awards! This is going to be a mini awards intended to be finished quickly. Slots are limited, so sign up fast! But please read the rules. Please. Beautiful cover by @NotEvenEstella

Accepting entries (💚) Judging (💚) 💚- Yes. ❤️- No. The Bangtan Writers Gala, this contest is brought to you in the honour of our idols who are making their comeback this year. Special Awards and Exciting Prizes.✨ ‼️This contest is focusing more on the new writers. I would like to help them know the basics of the writing journey. 1- #writingcontests on 10/04/26 1- #certification on 10/04/26 1- #stickers on 11/04/26

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Judging [📜] Closed [ ] We are currently judging Round 1. Expect results by end of April 2026. Another contest, NOT an awards :) This contest will span over a minimum of three months (it may be more or less depending on the availability of the host) Good luck! ...

𝑾𝒆𝒍𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑾𝒊𝒍𝒅𝒇𝒍𝒐𝒘𝒆𝒓 𝑲𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒅𝒐𝒎'𝒔 𝑯𝒊𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑩𝒐𝒐𝒌! 🌸 This book isn't just about 𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐚𝐬𝐤𝐬, it's about weaving yourself into the 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐭 of our 𝐠𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐧. Every flower here has its own 𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐫, it's own 𝐟𝐫𝐚𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞, its own way of making the Kingdom 𝐚 𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐥𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝒂𝒍𝒊𝒗𝒆. When you step into a role, you're not just helping with responsibilities, 𝐲𝐨𝐮'𝐫𝐞 𝐡𝐞𝐥𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐨𝐥𝐞 𝐠𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐧 𝒃𝒍𝒐𝒐𝒎. Think of the pages ahead as a gentle path lined with petals, leading you toward a place where your talents can grow roots and your ideas can find sunlight. Some roles will call for 𝒄𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒊𝒕𝒚, others for 𝒐𝒓𝒈𝒂𝒏𝒊𝒛𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏, some for 𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒅𝒏𝒆𝒔𝒔 or 𝒔𝒖𝒑𝒑𝒐𝒓𝒕, but each one 𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬, and each one helps our community 𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒚 𝒗𝒊𝒃𝒓𝒂𝒏𝒕. We believe every new helper is like planting a fresh seed. With care and dedication, you'll not only nurture the Kingdom, but you'll also find yourself growing in the process. So take a deep breath, wander through these pages, and 𝒔𝒆𝒆 𝒘𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒕 𝒇𝒆𝒆𝒍𝒔 𝒂𝒕 𝒉𝒐𝒎𝒆. ˚‧｡⋆🌻The Wildflower Kingdom is waiting for you to add your colors to our garden 🌻⋆｡‧˚ Graphics: @sus_amognus

|| OPEN || 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!

When Kang the Conqueror creates a deadly game to choose his successor, twelve diaries appear across Earth, each holding the power to predict the future. For Y/N L/N, a young hero and ally of Spider-Man, the game becomes personal. Hunted by gods, heroes, and fate itself, he must survive the impossible alongside the mysterious Yuno Gasai... before time runs out for everyone. Twelve diaries. One god. No tomorrow.

Vincent is having an amazing morning. The most popular guy in the office has given him a high-five, a pretty girl has offered him a coffee, and he's been invited to join the frisbee team. It's almost like they've confused him with someone else. Someone popular. Someone fun. Someone about to bring Vincent's life to a shuddering halt. My entry for ONC2026 based on this writing prompt: 77. Everyone in town remembers you differently, as if everyone has lived a different version of your life. Cover design by @elicatucci

🕸️．A 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐠𝐨𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐫𝐞 stirs awake, its chandeliers 𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 with 𝐨𝐥𝐝 𝐬𝐞𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐭𝐬 and half-remembered applause. 𝓣𝓱𝓮 𝓢𝓽𝓪𝓰𝓮 𝓸𝓯 𝓢𝓹𝓲𝓻𝓲𝓽𝓼 invites you into a 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝 where stories 𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐫 like 𝐠𝐡𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐬, drifting between 𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐯𝐞𝐭 𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐬 and 𝐝𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐲 𝐬𝐩𝐨𝐭𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐛𝐞𝐚𝐦𝐬﹒﹒‹3 ✦﹒Here, 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚 𝒘𝒉𝒊𝒔𝒑𝒆𝒓 feels like a 𝐦𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐲 reaching out, every shadow a 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 waiting to return. Step inside, let 𝓣𝓱𝓮 𝓞𝓹𝓪𝓵 𝓕𝓸𝔂𝓮𝓻 breathe around you - and watch the 𝐬𝐩𝐢𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐬 take 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝒐𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒆﹒✶﹒🍷 ﹒

This is an award for fanfiction only! Please read the rules carefully. This contest is open for submissions! Judging will begin in early May, 2026.

ONC 2026 | Brynn hates snow. Which is funny, really, a cosmic joke she'd laugh at if her throat weren't so frozen she could barely form words. Every morning as the sun rises, she wakes up in a fucking-freezing forest, snowflakes landing on her cheeks and nose, and her heart skips a beat because she's back there again, on that road, and she doesn't know why. She can't remember who she was; she can't recall the faces of people in her life, neither their voices, nor their names. All she knows is that there's a path ahead of her, down along the snowy slope that stretches for miles, and no way back. So Brynn goes on. Step after step into the treacherous whiteness, until the sun begins to set behind her and the white path is hit by the worst snowfall ever. And there, alone and cold, Brynn dies. Again. And again. And again. Until one day, something... changes. The always-so-straight road forks in two, and, for the first time in an endless list of days, Brynn feels like she has a choice. She can go right, and follow the same snowy path that will lead to her being buried in snow and, well, die... Or she can go left, and walk down the green path she has never seen before. What could possibly go wrong? Brynn doesn't know. But of the many things she doesn't know, there is one she knows for sure: she is tired of being cold. ### Main Prompt: 102. You break into an abandoned cottage for shelter, only to discover three bears that are anything but ordinary. Something in the shadows stalks the house, and every choice you make could be your last. Secondary prompts: 16. »And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.« (Quote by John Muir) 78. You begin to realize that nothing is quite what it seems. 80. »Monsters don't live under our beds. They live in the recesses of our minds.« (Variation of Edgar Allen Poe's famous quote)

A collection of poems for the April 2026 Wattpad Poetry Challenge

This is created for Versification 2026. It will have both poem and flash fiction stories, hopefully for all 30 prompts. I will delete it, and move them to other books after the judging is over.

Y/n is a singer that finds herself sending a song to the most influential Italian Song Contest: Sanremo's Festival. She doesn't believe she'll become a participant, but still, in hopes she will, she decides to text her favorite singer, and ask if they could duet during Sanremo's Festival's fourth night: the covers' one. Will he answer? And most importantly: does she even stand a chance of participating? //// The English dialogue is going to be written using the standard font, the ones in Italian are going to be in Italic (ironically) Enjoy it <3

Flash fictions, contest entries and stuff! Here are my entries for various writing challenges, contests and prompts, plus random writings. There's poetry, flash fiction and more!

To keep myself from losing track of: all the 2026 contests I've entered, all the 2026 contests I've volunteered myself as a judge (or let myself be volun-told into judging), all the 2026 books I've had to read as a contestant or as a judge, all the 2026 deadlines, and all the other important stuff, here is a book that registers all these 2026 things in a somewhat organized fashion. With occasional commentary. For the record, I am not Lady Whistledown, and I do not have all the gossip of the ton. Nota bene: Although other people are welcome to browse my public contest logs and look for contests, look for information about details of contests (i.e. you want me to pour you some tea), etc, these contest logs are primarily for my own use. I enter so many contests that I can't keep track of them without a log. I forget important details, too, including things like "Note to self: You do not get along with this contest host, best not participate in their contests." Like my 2024 and 2025 contest logs, this journal was never meant to be an "expose" book. I'm not exposing anybody. Contests are matters of public record, as are any comments made in the contest books. I'm just a ditz who needs a written log to keep track of everything. I would lose my head if it hadn't been attached to my shoulders. I DO NOT CONSENT TO MY POETRY AND PROSE BEING USED TO TRAIN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

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