Editor’s note: The second annual “Best in Rural Writing Contest” was presented by the rural literary journal The Milk House with promotional support from the Daily Yonder. Judge Dr. Chea Parton ...

Ain’t life grand? That’s what Stories On Stage artistic director Anthony Powell thinks, and his group has just announced a new writing contest with that theme. Stories on Stage is looking for upbeat ...

Visitors can print a randomly-selected story by pressing a button on Waldo Library's Story Machine. Submissions are limited to 7,500 characters maximum (including spaces) and are due by Sunday, Nov. 2 ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — The annual statewide short-story writing contest from Kent District Library is now open. Write Michigan Short Story Contest began accepting entries on Sept. 1 and is open ...

I struggled to get my first novel, “The Beasts They Turned Away,” published. It was set on a dairy farm, embraced the Gothic, and included a lot of details about agriculture. It took a year and a half ...

This year's contest, which focused on mystery/suspense writing and was judged by News reporters and editors, elicited some truly clever plots. Of the grand-prize winning story, "Luna Island," one ...

TORONTO, Jan. 02, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Toronto Star Short Story contest opens tomorrow and invites all aspiring published authors to take part. The winning stories will be published in the ...

Winners of a new Baltimore writing contest will help Johns Hopkins University neuroscientists learn what happens in the brain when people read stories. The inaugural fMRI Writing Prize, created by a ...