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Prompt: Write a short story, of 750 words or fewer, based on the prompt below:
Love gets him into more trouble than hate ever could.
You can be funny, poignant, witty, etc.; it is, after all, your story.
Use the submission form below OR email your submission directly to [email protected] with the subject “Your Story #65.”
IMPORTANT: If you experience trouble with the submission form, please email your submission directly to [email protected] within the body of your email (no attachments, please).
Unfortunately, we cannot respond to every entry we receive, due to volume. No confirmation emails will be sent out to confirm receipt of submission. But be assured all submissions received before entry deadline are considered carefully. Official Rules
Entry Deadline: April 13, 2015
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Prompt: Write the opening sentence (25 words or fewer) to a story based on the photo to the left.
Remember: You can be funny, poignant, witty, etc.; it is, after all, your story.
Paste your story into the form below or email your submission directly to [email protected] within the body of your email (no attachments please). Don’t forget your name and mailing address. One entry per person per contest.
Unfortunately, we cannot respond to every entry we receive, due to volume. No confirmation emails will be sent out to confirm receipt of submission. But be assured all submissions received before entry deadline are considered carefully. Official Rules
Entry Deadline: February 23, 2015
Your Story Entry Form
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Prompt: Write a short story, of 750 words or fewer, based on the photo on the left.
Remember: You can be funny, poignant, witty, etc.; it is, after all, your story.
Use the submission form below OR email your submission directly to [email protected].
IMPORTANT: If you experience trouble with the submission form, please email your submission directly to [email protected] within the body of your email (no attachments please).
Unfortunately, we cannot respond to every entry we receive, due to volume. No confirmation emails will be sent out to confirm receipt of submission. But be assured all submissions received before entry deadline are considered carefully. Official Rules
Entry Deadline: January 14, 2015
Your Story Entry Form
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Prompt: Write a short story, of 750 words or fewer, that begins with the following sentence: I knew it was a mistake the moment it was over.
You can be funny, poignant, witty, etc.; it is, after all, your story.
Use the submission form below OR email your submission directly to [email protected].
IMPORTANT: If you experience trouble with the submission form, please email your submission directly to [email protected] within the body of your email (no attachments please).
Unfortunately, we cannot respond to every entry we receive, due to volume. No confirmation emails will be sent out to confirm receipt of submission. But be assured all submissions received before entry deadline are considered carefully. Official Rules
Entry Deadline: November 24, 2014
Your Story Entry Form
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Prompt: Write the opening sentence (just one, of 25 words or fewer) to a story based on the photo to the left. You can be funny, poignant, witty, etc.; it is, after all, your story.
Use the submission form below OR email your submission directly to [email protected].
IMPORTANT: If you experience trouble with the submission form, please email your submission directly to [email protected] within the body of your email (no attachments, please).
Unfortunately, we cannot respond to every entry we receive, due to volume. No confirmation emails will be sent out to confirm receipt of submission. But be assured all submissions received before entry deadline are considered carefully. Official Rules
Entry Deadline: October 13, 2014
Your Story Entry Form
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Prompt: Write a short story, of 750 words or fewer, based on this prompt: A man opens his mailbox to find an envelope containing a set of instructions.
You can be funny, poignant, witty, etc.; it is, after all, your story.
Use the submission form below OR email your submission directly to [email protected].
IMPORTANT: If you experience trouble with the submission form, please email your submission directly to [email protected] within the body of your email (no attachments please).
Unfortunately, we cannot respond to every entry we receive, due to volume. No confirmation emails will be sent out to confirm receipt of submission. But be assured all submissions received before entry deadline are considered carefully. Official Rules
Entry Deadline: August 25, 2014
Your Story Entry Form
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Prompt: Write the opening sentence (just one sentence, 25 words or fewer) to a story based on the photo to the left. You can be funny, poignant, witty, etc.; it is, after all, your story.
Use the submission form below OR email your submission directly to [email protected].
IMPORTANT: If you experience trouble with the submission form, please email your submission directly to [email protected] within the body of your email (no attachments please).
Unfortunately, we cannot respond to every entry we receive, due to volume. No confirmation emails will be sent out to confirm receipt of submission. But be assured all submissions received before entry deadline are considered carefully. Official Rules
Entry Deadline: July 14, 2014
Your Story Entry Form
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Write a short story, of 750 words or fewer, based on this prompt: You come home from a relaxing vacation and realize you have the wrong suitcase.
You can be funny, poignant, witty, etc.; it is, after all, your story.
Use the submission form below OR email your story directly in the body of an email to [email protected].
IMPORTANT: If you experience trouble with the submission form, please email your submission directly to [email protected] within the body of your email (no attachments please).
Unfortunately, we cannot respond to every entry we receive, due to volume. No confirmation emails will be sent out to confirm receipt of submission. But be assured all submissions received before entry deadline are considered carefully. (Official Rules)
Entry Deadline: June 2, 2014
Your Story Entry Form
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Prompt: Write the opening sentence (25 words or fewer) to a story based on the photo to the left.
Use the submission form below OR email your submission directly to [email protected].
IMPORTANT: If you experience trouble with the submission form, please email your submission directly to [email protected] within the body of your email (no attachments please).
Unfortunately, we cannot respond to every entry we receive, due to volume. No confirmation emails will be sent out to confirm receipt of submission. But be assured all submissions received before entry deadline are considered carefully. (Official Rules)
Entry Deadline: November 25, 2013
Your Story Entry Form
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Prompt: Write the opening sentence (25 words or fewer) to a story based on the photo to the left.
Use the submission form below OR email your submission directly to [email protected].
IMPORTANT: If you experience trouble with the submission form, please email your submission directly to [email protected] within the body of your email (no attachments please).
Unfortunately, we cannot respond to every entry we receive, due to volume. No confirmation emails will be sent out to confirm receipt of submission. But be assured all submissions received before entry deadline are considered carefully. Official Rules
Entry Deadline: October 15, 2012
Your Story Entry Form
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Prompt: A nosy man eavesdrops on his co-workers and immediately regrets it.
Write an opening paragraph (to a story) of 100 words or fewer based on the prompt above.
Use the submission form below OR email your submission directly to [email protected].
IMPORTANT: If you experience trouble with the submission form, please email your submission directly to [email protected] within the body of your email (no attachments please).
Unfortunately, we cannot respond to every entry we receive, due to volume. No confirmation emails will be sent out to confirm receipt of submission. But be assured all submissions received before entry deadline are considered carefully. Official Rules
Entry Deadline: August 27, 2012
Your Story Entry Form
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For more writing prompts and exercises, be sure to check out Jack Heffron’s The Writer’s Idea Book: 10th Anniversary Edition!
Prompt: Write a short story of 750 words or fewer based on this prompt: Begin your story with the following line of dialogue: “I’ve got to get out of these clothes—fast.”
Use the submission form below OR email your submission directly to [email protected].
IMPORTANT: If you experience trouble with the submission form, please email your submission directly to [email protected] within the body of your email (no attachments please).
Unfortunately, we cannot respond to every entry we receive, due to volume. No confirmation emails will be sent out to confirm receipt of submission. But be assured all submissions received before entry deadline are considered carefully. Official Rules
Entry Deadline: June 10, 2012
Your Story Entry Form
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By: Zachary Petit,
on 4/6/2012
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From hardboiled detectives to murderers, leprechauns, spies and even giraffe narrators, when it comes to the diverse and unique entries in our free Your Story contest, the gang’s all here.
If you have a spare moment this weekend for a writing challenge, take five minutes and give it a whirl.
Basically, in every issue we give our readers a chance to get published in Writer’s Digest by running a prompt and asking them to do one of two things in response to it: Write a full short story, or write a one-sentence opener to a short story.
For our March/April 2012 issue, we invited our readers to go the one-sentence route for this writing prompt:
Write the first line to a story incorporating these three words: Cinderella, midnight, and behave.
Want in? Post your entry in the Comments section of this post, and it’ll automatically be entered in the competition.
The rules:
- Your sentence (just one!) must be 25 words or fewer. Entries of 26 words will be DQ’d (even though it’s my lucky number).
- The deadline is April 10, 2012.
- One entry per person, please.
- How it all works: We’ll select the top 10 entries and post them here. In mid-April, readers will vote for their favorites to help rank the winners.
- This is a free writing competition. The prize is publication in WD.
- You can also submit your sentence via the form here.
- Finally, as we say about this publication contest in the magazine: “You can be funny, poignant, witty, etc. It is, after all, your story.”
Good luck! One of the most fun things we get to do around here every issue is read them all, and we appreciate every single word that comes in.
I’ll be back next Friday with my series on vintage discoveries from the WD archives—and some free books. Stay tuned.
(And if you landed here looking for general advice on submitting short fiction to publications, check out my colleague Scott Francis’ excellent post on 10 rules for submitting short stories.)
Happy Friday.
Prompt: Write the opening sentence to a story (25 words or fewer) incorporating these three words: Cinderella, midnight and behave. Read more
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