All participants get to partake in a short and intensive workshop featuring lessons and interactive sessions with fellow participants and facilitators. This edition’s workshop will focus on short story writing for magazines and other markets;

Understand the elements of the short story and why it is different from other forms of literature.

Plan, edit and submit your manuscript to fiction markets.

Discover how to make your stories more commercial.

Learn how to identify suitable markets.

This is a 2-stage writing contest, involving an elimination round. Upon completion of all registrations, the first stage begins. All participants will receive a short story prompt to write on, with all necessary details such as guidelines, marking criteria, and submission rules.

After submissions, your entry will be assessed and graded, and only the top 10 participants will move on to the second and final stage of the contest.

By the end of the final stage, the winner and top 2 will be selected and announced.

All participants however, will partake in the workshop from start to completion. Click here to see more benefits for all participants.

This 6th edition, we are only holding space for 50 participants. Please, only sign up if you are ready to compete, and if you really want to learn the secrets of delectable short stories, and how to write and sell them.