Entries open on 1 May and close on 31 July. Writer’s Digest has been shining a spotlight on up and coming writers in all genres through its Annual Writing Competition for more than 80 years. Almost 500 winners will be chosen. Winners of the 89th Annual competition will be announced in our Special 100 Years of Writer's Digest issue (December 2020). Your Story Competition. First prize is €2000 (US$2200), publication in the literary journal Southword, and a week-long residency at Anam Cara Writer’s and Artist’s Retreat. You can be poignant, funny, witty, etc. You can be poignant, funny, witty, etc. Jun 20, 2019. Contests: The Writer’s Fairy Godmother. We’re looking for short fiction stories! Read the story here. Writer’s Digest would like to congratulate the winners of the 18th Annual Short Short Story Competition. Enter the 20th Annual Writer’s Digest Short Short Story Competition for your chance to win $3,000 in cash, get published in Writer’s Digest magazine, and a paid trip to our ever-popular Writer’s Digest Conference! Read Jeffers' winning short story. ; it is, after all, your story. This year, “Beneath the Cracks” by Nicole Disney bested more than 3,000 entries. Enter our 89th Annual Writing Competition for your chance to win and have your work be seen by editors and agents! Jeffers has been visiting the island for more than 30 years, so he is pretty familiar with the natural world there. With the exception of shoe size and the fact that I don’t do floors, Cinderella and I are basically twins separated at birth. By Cassandra Lipp . Each year, writers submit their very best short stories of 1,500 words or fewer. Write the opening line to a story based on the photo prompt for your chance to be featured in Writer's Digest Magazine.

Annual Writing Competition. Your Story #99: Winner. Think you can write a winning story in 1,500 words or less? is an annual short story competition open to writers from around the world.

CLOSED Writer’s Digest’s oldest and most popular competition, the Annual Writing Competition, is open for entries. Back to Fundamentals: Vintage WD. Write a short story of 650 words or fewer based on the photo prompt. The entry fee is €15. Notes on Writer's Digest Competitions: They run a wide variety of contests throughout the year, some offering big cash prizes (thousands of dollars) - best to check the website and see which competitions are currently running . Jeffers’ winnings include $3,000 and a pass to the Writer’s Digest Annual Conference.

In this 1938 Writer's Digest article, Leon Byrne emphasizes the importance of learning and getting back to the fundamentals of craft, particularly when writing short stories (though we find his advice applicable to novels as well).