Contest Details

A prize of US$100 will be awarded to the most downloaded story by the closing date. Copyright remains with the author.

Requirements 

1. The story must be grammatically correct with full use of paragraphs, commas, full stops. Submissions which do not meet this basic requirement will be rejected and not progress through to the competition.

2. There must be a covering picture which illustrates the central theme.

3. It must have a beginning, middle, and end. If possible there should be a 'twist in the tale', or unexpected conclusion.

4. The word limit is 1000.

5. Payment will be made directly into the winner's bank account.

6. In submitting a story you are giving a legal assurance that it is your work and not taken from another source. Work will be checked for plagiarism. We are interested in finding authors who we can work with in the future. Interesting, engaging, well written submissions will be a good place to start!