Writing Contest Conundrum: Are Competitions Worth the Effort?
This is how it goes in your head: You enter a writing contest, win it, and ride that wave of success to glorious bestsellerdom. Or maybe it’s more like this: You don’t win the contest, but you get a priceless, insightful critique from a seasoned judge. You revise your novel, enter...
Free contest! Can you write an opening line to a story based on this photo? (Get published in WD)
Up for a writing challenge? We want to see Your Story. … Or at least the first line of it. In our Your Story contest, we give our readers a chance to get published in Writer’s Digest magazine by responding to a prompt with either a full story, or, in this case, a...
Beware of Reading Fees & Contests
There are certain red flags that should catch the eye of any writer. Here are a couple simple ones that will save you time (and money).
Last call! Can you write an opening sentence to this story? (Chance to get published in Writer’s Digest)
From hardboiled detectives to murderers, leprechauns, spies and even giraffe narrators, when it comes to the diverse and unique entries in our free Your Story contest, the gang’s all here. If you have a spare moment this weekend for a writing challenge, take five minutes and give it a whirl. Basically,...