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The Young Writers Who Won the 2025 Story Challenge

May 14, 2025 Linda L. Richards 0

Earlier this spring, when Education.Com invited young writers from around the world to unleash their imaginations and submit original works for the 2025 Story Challenge, the responses were nothing short of spectacular. Inspired by National Reading Month, the contest received hundreds of entries from all corners of the world, including Australia, Canada, Egypt, Hong Kong, Mexico, Peru and Spain. The entries were judged on creativity, originality, organization, and descriptive language. Education.Com wanted to spotlight ten […]

The Best Dog Tales of the Year

January 25, 2021 admin 0

Do you ever feel like your writing career is going to the dogs? Would you like it to? A Maryland bookstore and book publisher is looking for new, original short stories devoted to the theme of communication between dogs and humans. The Greyhound indie bookstore on the Eastern Shore of Maryland are joining forces with Secant Publishing to select and publish the year’s best short stories devoted to the theme of communication between dogs and […]

Ageless Authors Writing Contest

February 20, 2020 admin 0

In this contest, you must make every word count.” — Executive Director Larry Upshaw Authors age 65 and older have until midnight Saturday, February 29 to submit their best work to the Ageless Authors Writing Contest titled “Short … Everything.” Ageless Authors is the only international writers group and publisher that exclusively encourages and promotes older writers. While a majority of submissions are from senior writers in the United States and Canada, Ageless Authors […]

Covering Crime

January 8, 2018 admin 0

Time is running down on The Rap Sheet’s 10th Best Crime Fiction Cover of the Year contest. Editor J. Kingston Pierce says he has “been collecting prospective nominees for the last 12 months now, browsing bookstores and book-oriented Web sites in search of qualified contenders, and watching design-attentive blogs such as The Casual Optimist and Spine Magazine to see what they showcase.” The resulting bouquet of covers is a thing of beauty. And which one […]

Deadline Nears for Indie Writers Death Match

December 4, 2017 admin 0

The short story contest with the most interesting and provocative name has less than a month to run. Entries to the Indie Writer Death March close December 31, 2017. Billing itself as “The World’s Most Dangerous Short Story Contest,” the Indie Writer Death Match pits the top 16 stories against each other in an online battle with reader voting, “author trash talk and lots of comments.” Entry details are here.

Makin’ All the Rules

October 22, 2007 admin 0

Just over a week ago, we reported that The Rap Sheet would be holding a contest through which some lucky reader could win a free copy of crime novelist Elmore Leonard’s forthcoming non-fiction book about the art of fiction composition, appropriately titled Elmore Leonard’s 10 Rules of Writing. The contest rules have now been posted. To quote from The Rap Sheet: We’ll give a copy of Elmore Leonard’s 10 Rules of Writing to the person […]

Get Elmore

October 12, 2007 admin 0

While Elmore Leonard (Get Shorty, Up in Honey’s Room) turned 82 yesterday, fans might celebrate his birthday later this month with the purchase of the author’s first work of non-fiction, Elmore Leonard’s 10 Rules of Writing. We’ve yet to see the book, but Leonard’s notoriously no nonsense style, as well as the tantalizing tidbits about writing he’s let fly over the years, makes us think the 96-page book will be one to stand up for. […]