by Editor
on July 16, 2024
The Screw Turn Flash Fiction Competition
. . . is now CLOSED to submissions.
We’ll be announcing and publishing our winner and honorable mentions on or before July 31. But that’s not the end of opportunities for writers to compete, because The Ghost Story Supernatural Fiction Award, for full-length short stories, opens to submissions on August 1. The deadline is September 30, with winners announced on Halloween. You can read more about it here.
Don’t forget to stop back in a couple of weeks to read our top three flash-fiction pieces!
by Editor
on June 6, 2024
Now Accepting Submissions To Our Summer Supernatural Flash Fiction Competition
What is flash fiction—also called “sudden,” “brief,” or “short-short” fiction? Well, different editors will offer slightly different definitions, but for our purposes a flash piece is a supernatural tale of 1,000 words or fewer. Here at The Ghost Story, we really love flash because it’s exciting: It forces writers to eliminate almost all exposition and seize the reader’s attention from the very first word by building a chilling scene or set of scenes that get right to that metaphorical heartbeat hammering beneath the floorboards.
What we’re looking for in the Summer 2024 Screw Turn Flash Fiction Competition: carefully crafted stories of 1,000 words or fewer on a supernatural or magic realism theme. Other than those relatively flexible boundaries, we’re wide open to all kinds of approaches—as any perusal of past winning and honorable mention stories will demonstrate.
The author of the winning story will receive a cash prize of $1,000 plus publication here on The Ghost Story website on or before July 31. Two honorable mention winners will receive $200 each, plus publication. [continue reading…]
by Editor
on June 1, 2024
Now Available For Your Reading Pleasure
We’ve just published the winner and two honorable mentions in the Spring 2024 Ghost Story Supernatural Fiction Award competition for full-length stories on a supernatural or magic realism theme. You’ll find them right here.
For Spring 2024 is . . . Now CLOSED To Submissions
We will announce and publish the winners here on June 1
Our contests have been running since 2015. Our next contest is The Summer 2024 Screw Turn Flash Fiction Competition, for sudden stories of 1,000 words or fewer. You’ll find our guidelines here.
Happy writing, happy reading.
