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Weekly Competition
Win prize money in our weekly poetry and story competitions.

LIVE COMPETITION

Write a poem or story about a mirror struggling with the fact that she has no identity of her own. (What could this be symbolic of?)
$100 Prize money
39 entries
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Voting Competition
Help decide this week's winner. You've got three votes to use on your favourite peices.

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A forensic agent is forced to go on the run because of what they uncovered on their last case.
Previous Competition

COMPETITION FINISHED

Water, fire, earth, and air. What would the four elements say if they could speak to each other? Include as many or as few elements as you wish.

$100 Prize Money

76 entries
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1st
Ben
Not Today, Air
2nd
Amber
This Is How It Ends
3rd
Frankie Famighetti
The Golden Tempest
+ 73 more

COMPETITION FINISHED

Write a story about a date between two people from different realms.

$100 Prize Money

54 entries
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1st
Goose
Dear Diary,
2nd
Cam
Root of Evil
3rd
M.Z.
FlashLights And Racists
+ 51 more

COMPETITION FINISHED

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

$100 Prize Money

124 entries
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1st
S. Winter
The Element of Conversation
2nd
Just Another Teenage Girl✍️
Plot Twist Prompt
3rd
lanie
Mirror Mirror
+ 121 more

COMPETITION FINISHED

Write a story set in a hospital.

$100 Prize Money

49 entries
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1st
S.D. Carrick
Stay
2nd
Lola
Friction
3rd
AK Grace
The Abyss
+ 46 more

COMPETITION FINISHED

Write a poem from the perspective of an elderly person about the topic of their inner child.

$100 Prize Money

60 entries
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1st
Michael T. Miyoshi
Always Twelve
2nd
R.E Anna
She Still Knocks
3rd
Lilah Wynter
Retirement
+ 57 more

COMPETITION FINISHED

A natural disaster destroys your main character's home, where do they go to start fresh?

$100 Prize Money

34 entries
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1st
S. Winter
The Calm After the Storm
2nd
Cara Veldmora
It Begins With Dawn
3rd
madeline
Empanadas
+ 31 more

COMPETITION FINISHED

In another world, a “dream catcher" is not an object, it’s a person.

$100 Prize Money

54 entries
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1st
Cara Veldmora
The Dreamcatcher’s Lament
2nd
Anne Kits
And, Again.
3rd
Frankie Famighetti
Once Upon A Dream
+ 51 more

COMPETITION FINISHED

Write a story about an undercover character who's identity isn't revealed to the reader until the end.

$100 Prize Money

43 entries
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1st
Cam
Playing House
2nd
ellie
Estranged Strangers
3rd
Frankie Famighetti
Getting Home
+ 40 more

COMPETITION FINISHED

Write a poem which starts with the description of a sunrise, and ends with a sunset.

$100 Prize Money

92 entries
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1st
Annie Pine
Rise & Fall
2nd
Olivia Pemberly
The Gladiator
3rd
Georgia White
Dawn And Dusk
+ 89 more

COMPETITION FINISHED

The horses in the stable went wild, they knew of the storm coming.

$100 Prize Money

28 entries
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1st
Frankie Famighetti
Reindeer Games
2nd
Jaiden Èclair
The Storm
3rd
A.L. Marquis
The Sound Of Thunder
+ 25 more
Recent winners
Ben
Not Today, Air
Apr 30, 2025
Goose
Dear Diary,
Apr 16, 2025
S. Winter
The Element of Conversation
Apr 2, 2025
S.D. Carrick
Stay
Mar 26, 2025
Michael T. Miyoshi
Always Twelve
Mar 12, 2025