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.
by Editor
on February 15, 2024
The Ghost Story Supernatural Fiction Award
As we’ve done every spring and fall since 2015, The Ghost Story is running a competition for full-length short stories on a supernatural or magic realism theme—and we are now accepting submissions.
The winner receives $1,500 plus publication, and we also publish two honorable mention pieces, the authors of which each get a $300 cash award.
If you’re thinking of entering, please read the complete guidelines. The guidelines page also includes a link to our electronic submissions system.
And, if you’d like to read some of our past winners and honorable mentions, they’re all available for your reading pleasure here.
Cheers — The Editor
