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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Writing Battle Spring Microfiction
I think I’ve blogged about Writing Battle before. It’s a nice competition full of nice people and I enjoy the challenge and the setup. Despite the struggle I have writing 1000 word stories, I tried to do their 500 word microfiction challenge. One of the things I like about WB is that their peer-judged contests …
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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