…A Short Story Competition from Writer’s Digest
We will begin accepting entries on June 1, 2012.
Devise a thriller. Scare up a horror. Entice a romance from your most tender recesses. Whatever your genre, we’ve got the category for you.
Choose your favorite genre and enter your best in 4,000 words or less. Each of the 6 categories offers the a place for everybody’s story.
Compete and Win in All 6 Categories! Entry Deadline: September 14, 2012
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Writer’s Digest Science Fiction Category
What does the future hold? Colonized planets, maybe. Apocalypse? Perhaps time travel. You decide.
Category Opens: June 1, 2012
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Writer’s Digest Thriller Category
Whodunnit? Don’t keep us in suspense!
Category Opens: June 1, 2012
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Writer’s Digest Young Adult Fiction Category
Harry Potter. Twilight. The Hunger Games. The popularity of Young Adult fiction has everlasting life! Sink your teeth into it!
Category Opens: June 1, 2012
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Writer’s Digest Romance Category
Absence makes the heart grow fonder and romance makes the world go ’round. It makes life worth living and elicits such passion that it attracts us to vampires, forbidden loves, and werewolves.
Category Opens: June 1, 2012
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Writer’s Digest Crime Category
A bank robbery. A theft. A murder. We’ll start you off with this clue:
Category Opens: June 1, 2012
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Writer’s Digest Horror Category
Just like the barely-audible shuffles of a zombie, the deadline’s far-off … but it’s coming.
Category Opens: June 1, 2012
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