On December 15, we will begin accepting submissions to our annual Screw Turn Flash Fiction Competition, for supernatural short-short fiction of under 1,000 words.
We’ve made some important changes to the contest—including increasing the cash awards. You can read all about it on our contest page.
It’s Halloween, and that means it’s time to post the winner of The Ghost Story Supernatural Fiction Award competition, along with our two honorable mention stories.
Head to our Story Page to check them out. Enjoy!
Interested in gleaning a bit of insight into what we’re looking for as we comb through submissions to The Ghost Story Supernatural Fiction Award and The Screw Turn Flash Fiction Competition?
If so, we recommend reading our recently updated editor interview with Duotrope, one of the leading online resources for writers. Beyond that . . . read as many of our past winners and honorable mentions as you can. Read them all, in fact!
And good luck! We look forward to enjoying your work.
The image above shows the back cover of 21st Century Ghost Stories—Volume I. The book anthologizes all the winning and honorable mention stories in the Ghost Story Awards contests from 2015 to 2018. There are 29 tales in all—full-length short stories from The Ghost Story Supernatural Fiction Award contest, as well as short-short pieces from The Screw Turn Flash Fiction Competition.
Winners and honorable mentions in our currently ongoing fall 2018 Supernatural Fiction Award, as well as all future Ghost Story Awards contests through the summer of 2021, will be published as part of 21st Century Ghosts Stories—Volume II.
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!
