With a nod to spring, Writing.com has partnered with Gotham Writers’ Workshop to present a Tweet Writing Contest. Following the Twitter craze, we challenge you to dazzle us with a piece of writing that is no more than 140 characters (characters = letters, punctuation marks, and spaces). You may write on any topic and use any form—fiction, nonfiction, or poetry. As Strunk and White say, “Vigorous writing is concise.” Here’s an example, a...

Submit a Short Story We’re having a National Grammar Day short story contest! The winner will have his or her story read on the Grammar Girl podcast on National Grammar Day, and the story will appear on the Grammar Girl website. The winner will also receive my only-used-once-and-returned-to-factory-condition iPod Shuffle (woohoo!) and a handwritten thank-you note. If I can figure out how to load a congratulatory message on the Shuffle,...

Have you ever dreamed of being published? Do you have a story to tell? Well, you’re in luck! We are currently taking submissions for our back page nonfiction essay. Here is what we’re looking for: Submit a single work of creative nonfiction, with a maximum length of 600 words. The subject should be a story about love– the presence, absence, complications, hesitations, headlong rush into, etc. The best essays will focus on a specific event or...

Want to be published?  Want to get paid for your writing?  We invite you to enter your short story in Silverland Press’s First Annual Writing Contest.  The entries of ten lucky winners will be included in an anthology and published. Silverland Press is looking for original fiction that is intended for a young adult audience.  We are especially interested in stories involving aspects of the paranormal or urban fantasy (for example, see the work...

The Dell Social Innovation Competition is a venture plan competition for university students worldwide focused specifically on social entrepreneurship. Now in its fifth year, the mission of the DSIC is to inspire students to come up with ideas that can change the world. Best of all, it’s easy to enter! Last year we had more than 1,000 entries from teams in 55 countries presenting ideas that addressed issues such as environmental...

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