by Editor
on December 1, 2024
Our Screw Turn Flash Fiction Competition
Got a short-short story—under 1,000 words—on a supernatural or magic realism theme that you’re ready to start submitting to publications? Or maybe you’ve got one rattling around in your brain that you’ve been thinking about committing to paper, or to a computer screen?
Well, our Winter contest for flash fiction—AKA sudden, or brief, or short-short fiction—is now open to submissions. If you’d like to have a look at our guidelines, you can access them here.
Happy holiday season — The Editor
by Editor
on November 11, 2024
Now Available: Volume III
Copies of 21st Century Ghost Stories—Volume III, are now available for purchase directly from our printer. The 433 page trade paperback book, the latest collection in our print anthology series, contains all 39 winning and honorable mention stories published online between summer 2021 and summer 2024 in our two biannual Ghost Story Awards competitions. Those competitions are The Ghost Story Supernatural Fiction Award, for full-length supernatural or magic realist short stories between 1,500 and 10,000 words, and The Screw Turn Flash Fiction Competition, for supernatural or magic realist flash pieces of 1,000 or fewer words.
You can order your copy from the Wyrd Harvest Press page on the the printer’s website. Happy reading!
by Editor
on October 30, 2024
Introducing Our Autumn Fiction Award Winners
As I write this, in New York City two teams are playing in The World Series—AKA, “the fall classic.” But here at The Ghost Story, we’ve had our own fall classic since 2015, when we launched The Ghost Story Supernatural Fiction Award Competition for full-length short stories incorporating a supernatural theme or element. We’ve always announced and published our winner and two—occasionally three—honorable mentions on October 31. So here we are, on the eve of October 31, and here they are: three new chilling, thought-provoking stories for your reading pleasure. Please have a look.
And, if you’re a writer . . . our next supernatural story contest, The Screw Turn Flash Fiction Competition (for uncanny stories of 1,000 words or fewer) opens to submissions on December 1. Happy reading, happy writing.
by Editor
on October 1, 2024
For Fall 2024 . . . is Now CLOSED To Submissions
We will announce and publish the winners here on Halloween
Our contests have been running since 2015. Our next contest is The Screw Turn Flash Fiction Competition, for sudden stories of 1,000 words or fewer. You’ll find our guidelines here.
Happy writing, happy reading.
