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Win prize money in our weekly poetry and story competitions.

LIVE COMPETITION

Write a poem from the perspective of an elderly person about the topic of their inner child.

$100 Prize money

Voting Competition

Help decide this week's winner. You've got three votes to use on your favourite peices.

VOTING

A natural disaster destroys your main character's home, where do they go to start fresh?

Previous Competition

COMPETITION FINISHED

In another world, a “dream catcher" is not an object, it’s a person.

$100 Prize Money

54 entries

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1st

Cara Veldmora

The Dreamcatcher’s Lament

2nd

Anne Kits

And, Again.

3rd

Frankie Famighetti

Once Upon A Dream

+ 51 more

COMPETITION FINISHED

Write a story about an undercover character who's identity isn't revealed to the reader until the end.

$100 Prize Money

44 entries

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1st

Cam

Playing House

2nd

ellie

Estranged Strangers

3rd

Frankie Famighetti

Getting Home

+ 41 more

COMPETITION FINISHED

Write a poem which starts with the description of a sunrise, and ends with a sunset.

$100 Prize Money

93 entries

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1st

Annie Pine

Rise & Fall

2nd

Olivia Pemberly

The Gladiator

3rd

Georgia White

Dawn And Dusk

+ 90 more

COMPETITION FINISHED

The horses in the stable went wild, they knew of the storm coming.

$100 Prize Money

29 entries

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1st

Frankie Famighetti

Reindeer Games

2nd

Jaiden Èclair

The Storm

3rd

A.L. Marquis

The Sound Of Thunder

+ 26 more

COMPETITION FINISHED

Write a short story about a character born from the ground.

$100 Prize Money

40 entries

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1st

Kosuke

Guide for the Grounded

2nd

Anthony Cicchino

Siblings Like Flowers

3rd

Mel Davies

Where We Belong

+ 37 more

COMPETITION FINISHED

Write a story centered around an unconventional (yet genuine) compliment.

$100 Prize Money

39 entries

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1st

Cam

Blood for Breakfast

2nd

TT

The Art of Being Seen

3rd

Frankie Famighetti

Compliments: The Musical

+ 36 more

COMPETITION FINISHED

Write a poem in ‘revorto’ form. A revorto poem consists of seven couplets that alternate between one highly poetic line and one very unpoetic line.

$100 Prize Money

43 entries

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1st

Space Cadetter

Rot And Bury

2nd

ellie

we're like totally losing our words

3rd

Just a worm

The Snail

+ 40 more

COMPETITION FINISHED

Write a story about a character who thinks they're cursed.

$100 Prize Money

38 entries

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1st

Julius Black

To Dream Of The Real

2nd

Frankie Famighetti

Curses, Busted

3rd

The Stranger

Cherry-Flavoured Fish Bait

+ 35 more

COMPETITION FINISHED

Write a thought-provoking prompt to inspire a fictional prompt or poem.

$100 Prize Money

99 entries

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1st

𝙰.𝙴. 𝙲𝚎𝚙𝚑𝚊𝚜

Oulipo: Revorto

2nd

Bernard Wicks

Beauty In Pain

3rd

Camille McRae

Compliments

+ 96 more

COMPETITION FINISHED

Write the opening scene of a story set in complete darkness.

$100 Prize Money

45 entries

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1st

Olivia T. Thomson

The Harvester’s Interview

2nd

A.M. KATHERINE

The Pitts Of Everdeen 🦋

3rd

KMA

Sanctuary In The Underworld

+ 42 more

Recent winners

The Dreamcatcher’s Lament

Frankie Famighetti

Guide for the Grounded