Welcome to our 2018 500 Word Scary Story Contest. Every year we run this contest, but this year…it’s different. Over the last year and ½ our site has simply had a lot of issues. I can’t pass up doing this contest, but as it sometimes gets less entries than some of our other of our contests, this year we will not be offering a grand prize.If you win this year’s contest you … [Read more...] about 2018 500 Word Scary Story Contest
Contests for writers
2018 Horror Halloween Haiku Contest!
2018 Horror Halloween Haiku Contest! Welcome to our 2018 Horror Halloween Haiku Contest! I love writing contests, big and small, so we are doing a couple more. You guys are killing it on the other posts right now. We have 3 other major contests running right now, so this one isn’t going to be a monetary or promotional prize. It’s just for fun and bragging rights.Haikus can … [Read more...] about 2018 Horror Halloween Haiku Contest!
25 Word Halloween Horror Story Contest 2018
25 Word Halloween Horror Story Contest 2018 Welcome to our 25 Word Halloween Horror Contest 2018. You know how much we love Halloween and horror, so this is one of our big contests. This contest is for bragging rights only. We will announce the top 3 winners on Halloween night 2018. Honestly, it just wouldn't be Halloween without a 25 word story contest.The rules are very … [Read more...] about 25 Word Halloween Horror Story Contest 2018
2018 $500 Halloween Writing Prompt Contest!
Welcome to our 2018 $500 Halloween Writing Prompt Contest. We decided to try something different this year. We are asking for writing prompts from YOU. In this case we are asking for writing prompts that will produce scary stories. You can see examples of these types of writing prompts over at our Top 10 Horrifying Horror Prompts. These prompts, the page was so popular, we … [Read more...] about 2018 $500 Halloween Writing Prompt Contest!
2018 50 Word $500 Horror Story Halloween Contest
Welcome to our 2018 50 Word Horror Story Halloween Contest! Here is our BIGGEST contest this year. You know how much we love Halloween, and instead of giving you promotional money, we are giving out hard cash. We've decided to change the monetary prize to the 50 word contest. In the past our 500 word contest would carry a promotion prize, and publication, but honestly we didn't … [Read more...] about 2018 50 Word $500 Horror Story Halloween Contest
51 Word Summer Story Contest
Ok, this is our 51 Word Summer Story Contest. We have run many of these in the past. We usually offer a non-cash prize for the contest and publication. The last horror contest we ran we were not able to make good for our winners. We were publishing a print issue of our magazine, and it was canceled. Our site fell on hard times, and other perks that we were offering our winners … [Read more...] about 51 Word Summer Story Contest
25 word Summer Horror Contest
25 word Summer Horror Contest Welcome to our 25 word Summer Horror Contest. We hope that by the fall we will be able to do another Halloween Horror contest, and we hope to be able to pull off our print issue this summer, honoring all our winners with publication in that issue. Fingers crossed.You all know how much we love horror. Our short story horror contest are intended … [Read more...] about 25 word Summer Horror Contest
Every Writer Halloween 50 Word Scary Story Contest!
Happy Halloween! Yes, it's August 7, but we have to start now! Welcome to the Every Writer Halloween 50 Word Scary Story Contest. I know we just ended our other 50 Word Summer contest, but we have to get this one started now. It's our big contest. It's the big show. The contest to end all contest! You already know the ground rules. Our writers always seem to have fun doing … [Read more...] about Every Writer Halloween 50 Word Scary Story Contest!
500 Word Scary Story contest! Over $10,000 in promotions.
500 word scary story contest! Welcome to our 2017 500 word horror story contest! We are looking for submissions of horror stories that are scary, and 500 words are less. These stories can be about anything, but as we get them and like them we will publish them on EWR: Short Stories, and if they are in before September 15 they will be published in our print issue.We have … [Read more...] about 500 Word Scary Story contest! Over $10,000 in promotions.
Winners: 50 Word Scary Story Summer Contest!
50 Word Scary Story Summer Contest! Yes, once again we are doing it! I’ve got a bunch (more than 3 fewer than 10) asking, hey when are you doing another 50 Word Word Scary Story Summer Contest. I like those contests….Thank you for those emails. I really enjoy these too. I like reading wonderful and amazing stories that are so short, you are amazed at the writing.To that … [Read more...] about Winners: 50 Word Scary Story Summer Contest!
Haiku Hoopla Contest
On our horror movie night we talked about our Horror Haiku contest. We ran out of time. We would have only had a couple of days for that contest, so we decided to wait until after Halloween. We decided to do a Haiku Hoopla Contest instead. This is a contest honoring the Haiku form on all subjects.We are looking for Haiku poetry from now until November 25th. The winner of … [Read more...] about Haiku Hoopla Contest