Writing Contests

All past writing contests

  1. Member-Sponsored What Would You Do? Contest

    Deadline: Aug 31, 2017

    1st prize:$100 cash via PayPal, 5 karma points
    2nd prize:$75 cash via PayPal, 5 karma points
    3rd prize:$50 cash via PayPal, 5 karma points
    4th prize:A critique from the judges on a work of your choosing (under 3000 words), 10 karma points
    5th prize:5 karma points
    6th prize:5 karma points

  2. Group-Sponsored Agent Hunters' Best Agent Query Ever! Contest

    Deadline: Aug 31, 2017

    1st prize:10 karma points

  3. Group-Sponsored Third Annual Tasha Mann Contest

    Deadline: Aug 20, 2017

    1st prize:$100 cash via PayPal
    2nd prize:$75 cash via PayPal
    3rd prize:$50 cash via PayPal
    4th prize:20 karma points
    5th prize:15 karma points
    6th prize:10 karma points
    7th prize:8 karma points

  4. Member-Sponsored “Who Am I? / Who Are You?” Contest

    Deadline: Jul 15, 2017

    1st prize:$75 cash via PayPal
    2nd prize:$50 cash via PayPal
    3rd prize:$25 cash via PayPal

  5. Group-Sponsored Microfiction Mondays Contest

    Deadline: May 31, 2017

    1st prize:$100 cash via PayPal
    2nd prize:$75 cash via PayPal
    3rd prize:$50 cash via PayPal
    4th prize:5 karma points
    5th prize:5 karma points

  6. Member-Sponsored What’s My Story? Contest

    Deadline: May 17, 2017

    1st prize:$100 cash via PayPal
    2nd prize:$75 cash via PayPal
    3rd prize:$50 cash via PayPal
    4th prize:5 karma points

  7. Group-Sponsored YA Authors’ Contest: WRATH

    Deadline: May 1, 2017

    1st prize:15 karma points, publication in the anthology
    2nd prize:10 karma points, publication in the anthology
    3rd prize:5 karma points, publication in the anthology

  8. Group-Sponsored Crafting the Short Story Presents: What's It All About? Contest

    Deadline: Apr 15, 2017

    1st prize:$100 cash via PayPal
    2nd prize:$75 cash via PayPal
    3rd prize:$50 cash via PayPal
    4th prize:20 karma points
    5th prize:18 karma points
    6th prize:12 karma points
    7th prize:10 karma points
    8th prize:10 karma points
    9th prize:8 karma points
    10th prize:8 karma points
    11th prize:5 karma points
    12th prize:5 karma points

  9. Member-Sponsored Second First Chapter Contest

    Deadline: Mar 31, 2017

    1st prize:$100 cash via PayPal
    2nd prize:$75 cash via PayPal
    3rd prize:$50 cash via PayPal
    4th prize:20 karma points
    5th prize:15 karma points
    6th prize:10 karma points

  10. Member-Sponsored Just Listen to This! Contest

    Deadline: Mar 17, 2017

    1st prize:1 year Scribophile Premium upgrade or cash equivalent via PayPal if you're already upgraded
    2nd prize:$25 cash via PayPal
    3rd prize:10 karma points

  11. Group-Sponsored The Ward Contest: Delusions

    Deadline: Mar 1, 2017

    1st prize:$100 cash via PayPal
    2nd prize:$75 cash via PayPal
    3rd prize:$50 cash via PayPal

  12. Member-Sponsored Love in a Flash Contest

    Deadline: Feb 14, 2017

    1st prize:$75 cash via PayPal, 1 month subscription to Duotrope
    2nd prize:$50 cash via PayPal
    3rd prize:$25 cash via PayPal

  13. Member-Sponsored Carlos Dunning’s Crime Fiction Contest #3

    Deadline: Jan 31, 2017

    1st prize:$100 cash via PayPal, 20 karma points
    2nd prize:$75 cash via PayPal, 15 karma points
    3rd prize:$50 cash via PayPal, 10 karma points
    4th prize:5 karma points
    5th prize:5 karma points
    6th prize:5 karma points

  14. Member-Sponsored Artificial Intelligence: Sci-fi Contest

    Deadline: Jan 1, 2017

    1st prize:$100 cash via PayPal, Selected stories of Philip K. Dick (or equivalent collection), 20 karma points
    2nd prize:$75 cash via PayPal, 15 karma points
    3rd prize:$50 cash via PayPal, 10 karma points

  15. Member-Sponsored Open Season – 2016 Haiku Contest

    Deadline: Dec 31, 2016

    1st prize:$100 cash via PayPal
    2nd prize:$50 cash via PayPal
    3rd prize:$25 cash via PayPal
    4th prize:$25 cash via PayPal