Deadline: April 30 for The Ghost Story Supernatural Fiction Award competition. We want exciting, thought-provoking short stories incorporating a supernatural theme or element. Contemporary magic realism is more than welcome. $1,000 for the winner; two honorable mentions receive $250. Midsummer’s Eve online publication for all three, plus print anthology publication in Volume II of “21st Century Ghost Stories.” (Volume I was published in 2018 by Wyrd Harvest Press of Durham, U.K., and is available for purchase.) 1,500-10,000 words. $20 submission fee. Visit our Guidelines page.
The winner and two honorable mentions in our annual Screw Turn Flash Fiction Competition are now available for your reading enjoyment. This year, it’s a thoroughly international group of supernatural flash pieces, with a Canadian winner (for the second year in a row!) and two other fine stories from writers in England and the U.S. Have a look.
The Door Is Creaking Closed On The 2020 Screw Turn Flash Fiction Competition
Indeed . . . The sand in trickling through the hourglass, the sun is slipping below the horizon, the pendulum is swinging to the bottom of the pit . . . or whatever ominous metaphor you prefer . . . our supernatural story contest has just a few short weeks left to run. The winner gets $500, plus publication both online and in our print anthology, 21st Century Ghost Stories—Volume II. Two honorable mentions receive $100 each, along with online and print publication.
But the deadline is midnight on January 31. So if you’re thinking about submitting, you need to hasten over to our contest page!
Once a year, TGS runs The Screw Turn Flash Fiction Competition for short-short stories on a supernatural theme. That time is now, now through January 31.
We’re looking for fiction pieces of up to 1,000 words that have something to do with the uncanny. And while we love a good ghost story, submissions to the competition certainly do not have to be about ghosts—previous winners of our contests have included pieces revolving around vampires, voodoo, shape-shifting, elves, time slips, demons, magic realism, psychological horror, and many aspects of fantasy. What matters to us is the power of the author’s imagination, and the quality of their writing. [continue reading…]
Volume II of our print anthology, “21st Century Ghost Stories,” has just been published. It contains all of our Summer 2018 to Summer 2021 winning and honorable mention stories from The Ghost Story Supernatural Fiction Award contest and The Screw Turn Flash Fiction Competition—30 fine supernatural short stories in all!
