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Win prize money in our weekly poetry and story competitions.

LIVE COMPETITION

Begin your story with a prophecy from a fantasy world.

$100 Prize money

Voting Competition

Help decide this week's winner. You've got three votes to use on your favourite peices.

VOTING

Write a story that opens with a race of some kind.

Previous Competition

COMPETITION FINISHED

You realize you are being lied to but must keep up the act to uncover the truth.

$100 Prize Money

29 entries

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1st

Robin

The Art of Pettiness

2nd

Sara

The Tale Of A Groundskeeper

3rd

Spencer Nava

Replaced

+ 26 more

COMPETITION FINISHED

Write a poem about an old tree and the secrets it holds.

$100 Prize Money

71 entries

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1st

Castiel

Bark As Old As Time

2nd

Isabel

Wildcat Miner

3rd

J. D. Starkey

The Moons Wondering Eye

+ 68 more

COMPETITION FINISHED

Her eyes found mine across the room—and that was the last moment I belonged to myself.

$100 Prize Money

79 entries

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1st

Emma Duncan

Across The Golden Floor

2nd

Delphine P Snow

The Bond

3rd

Goose

Her Mother's Eyes

+ 76 more

COMPETITION FINISHED

Write a story that begins with an intensely descriptive paragraph - this could be about the setting, a character, or anything important to your plot.

$100 Prize Money

62 entries

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1st

Core Lyra

Bunny

2nd

cieramae

Where Sadness Sits

3rd

Veiled Writer

A Deeper Lie

+ 59 more

COMPETITION FINISHED

As the pair crossed the roaring river, they noticed a figure waiting for them on the other side.

$100 Prize Money

44 entries

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1st

cieramae

Where the River Ends

2nd

Rosaline

Gone Fishing

3rd

𝔏𝔦𝔫𝔡𝔰𝔞𝔶 🧚🏼‍♀️

The Way Back

+ 41 more

COMPETITION FINISHED

Come up with a unique prompt to inspire a fictional story or poem.

$100 Prize Money

173 entries

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1st

Zella Rae

Eyes For Me

2nd

Emmerson Lavigne

Poor Shot

3rd

MidnightType

Nine Cameras, One Clock

+ 170 more

COMPETITION FINISHED

“I trust you,” she says as his knife points to her throat.

$100 Prize Money

88 entries

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1st

Marie Lauren

The End

2nd

Emma Duncan

The Blade Made Flesh

3rd

Mariah k

Raven’s Nest

+ 85 more

COMPETITION FINISHED

Scientists predict that a massive asteroid is about to hit earth in 24 hours.

$100 Prize Money

101 entries

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1st

𝔏𝔦𝔫𝔡𝔰𝔞𝔶 🧚🏼‍♀️

Denial

2nd

BabyPeach

One Of The Five

3rd

Rosaline

Blue Nail Polish

+ 98 more

COMPETITION FINISHED

Use the phases of the moon to metaphorically or chronologically progress a narrative.

$100 Prize Money

75 entries

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1st

xvb_3lla

Feeling In Phases

2nd

Shona

The Moon Thief’s Apprentice

3rd

SW

Blood Moon

+ 72 more

COMPETITION FINISHED

Write a short story about a family preparing for a special day.

$100 Prize Money

76 entries

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1st

Elowen Marsh

The Morning Of May

2nd

Lola

Functionally Dysfunctional

3rd

Hannah Marie

Farewell

+ 73 more

Recent winners

The Art of Pettiness

Bark As Old As Time

Across The Golden Floor

Where the River Ends