I received word that I got fifth place in my group in the first round of the NYC Midnight Short Story 2025 contest on 1st April and it wasn’t an April Fool’s prank. While I was excited, of course, my heart sank. Between signing up for the contest and that day, I’d made plans for …
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The Nobbins Creek Summer Fair Ribbon Cutting Contest
Long title, I know. I’ve occasionally entered the NYC Midnight writing contests – they hold a handful of different ones during the year. It’s more formal than Writing Battle, but it’s still a nice challenge. Participants are still broken up into groups, but each group gets the same prompts and the top five advance to …
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