One winner will obtain an honorarium of $500 and shall be featured within the fall situation of Shenandoah. One runner-up will obtain a six-month digital mentorship from a author of their style. One other runner-up may have the chance to attend a category provided by Caine Prize–profitable author Makena Onjerika. The winner shall be introduced…
Create an Unique Faith for Your Story – How To Write the Future podcast, episode 152 *** “A effectively crafted faith can actually add depth to your world constructing and create some unimaginable conflicts and tensions that may transfer your story ahead.” On this How To Write the Future podcast episode, host Beth Barany discusses…
Defenestrationism.web !Brief Story Contest! 2025 Defenestrationism.web has launched the 2025 version of its !Brief Story Contest!, following the explosive success of The Artwork of Throwing Individuals Out Home windows. This isn’t a contest for passive prose or quiet resolutions. Writers should ship narratives pushed by sudden, dramatic transformation—tales that defy gravity and fling characters…
Twelve days after the shortlist was launched, Chinaza James-Ibe was named the 2024 Awele Artistic Belief Award winner for her story, Fly and Corpse. Described on the award’s social media web page as “a haunting exploration of grief, denial, the supernatural, & the risks of holding on too tightly to what has been misplaced,” the…
Homo Vitruvius and American Samizdat function houses for my weekly inventive writing and mental exploration. HV persists as my unique and first Substack in these pursuits; AS arose in resistance to Trumpism and is devoted to its defeat. From memoir and poetry to fiction and drama, largely in HV, to historical past and political philosophy,…
________ ________ 50% Story by Vikram Karve ______ Dramatis Personae The “Woman” – an IT “Techie” Her Boss The “Boy” His Buddy ______ PART 1 ______ The “IT Techie” Woman is speaking to her Boss ______ “Sir – I wished you to be the primary to know – I get married…” the IT Techie Woman…
TRIGGER WARNING: This submit offers with an account of home violence and could also be triggering to some. Rising up, I discovered early on how to concentrate on the little issues that spoke volumes. My mother wasn’t simply an alcoholic; she was additionally bipolar, and I by no means knew if I’d come house to…
________ Quick Fiction _______ _______ PARENTING Story By VIKRAM KARVE ________ PART 1 _______ She comes out of the Faculty Principal’s Workplace – she goes to her greatest good friend’s room – and – she tells her good friend the thrilling information. “It’s an opportunity of a lifetime – don’t refuse…” her good friend says….
Spring is the proper time for brand spanking new beginnings, and what higher approach to develop your writing than with a problem? Springtime on Story Road is again, providing writers an opportunity to showcase their greatest flash fiction in simply 100 phrases. There is no such thing as a theme this time—simply inform a compelling…
Loud Music and Darkish Locations Quick Story Contest Loud Music and Darkish Locations Quick Story Contest – Open Now to New Writers Loud Music and Darkish Locations Quick Story Contest is just open to new writers. Fantasy, up to date, romance, crime. All genres are welcome. Submissions shut February twenty eighth, 2025 at 11:59…