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Thanksgiving Haiku Contest

Posted on November 3, 2020January 28, 2023 by Richard

Welcome to our Thanksgiving Haiku Contest! We are looking for the best Haiku we have ever read! It can be on any topic or writing in any style. We just want to read your haikus. 

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$100 50 Word Horror Creepy Christmas Contest

Posted on October 29, 2020January 28, 2023 by Richard

Welcome to our $100 50 Word Horror Creepy Christmas Contest. We are going to run one of these every couple months due to the popularity, and it seems like people really like them. It also seems like people really love the horror stories, so we are doing it again. This contest is basically the same…

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$100 50 Word Horror Story Contest

Posted on October 10, 2020January 28, 2023 by Richard

Welcome to our 2020 50 Word Horror Story Halloween Contest! I’ll be honest, last years contest was a mess! We had all kinds of trouble. People played but didn’t supply their contact information. People didn’t want their personal information used. They didn’t even want their stories used. They didn’t want to get paid, they wanted…

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$500 Halloween 50 Horror Word Story Contest 2019

Posted on September 10, 2019October 17, 2024 by Richard

Welcome to our 2019 $500 Halloween Horror 50 Word Story contest. Yes, that’s right. It’s already here. Every year we run our contests, and those of you who have been frequent readers

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Greatest Writing Quotes Contest!

Posted on February 26, 2019January 28, 2023 by Richard

Welcome to our Greatest Quotes about Writing by Writers Contest! We are building this page to help writers. I personally love quotes about writing, and I find them very inspirational. Here we are running a contest for the secret quote

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Greatest 50 Word Horror Story of All Time! (you vote)

Posted on February 10, 2019February 3, 2023 by Richard

Welcome to our search for the Great 50 Word Horror Story of All Time. This is a user/reader centered contest.

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50 Word It’s really cold outside, warm me up with Horror Contest

Posted on February 10, 2019January 28, 2023 by Richard

Ok, so we’ve been out of it for a while. EWR hasn’t published a whole lot since Halloween, but we are back online now. This our our first contest of 2019. It’s one of those, oh so fun 50 word contests that everyone loves. 

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2018 500 word horror story contest

2018 500 Word Scary Story Contest

Posted on September 9, 2018January 28, 2023 by Richard

So you want another contest, here is one with 500 words and a lot of terror….

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2018 Horror Halloween Haiku Contest!

Posted on August 23, 2018January 28, 2023 by Richard

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

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25 Word Halloween Horror Story Contest 2018

Posted on August 15, 2018January 28, 2023 by Richard

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.

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2018 $500 Halloween Writing Prompt Contest!

Posted on August 14, 2018January 28, 2023 by Richard

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

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2018 50 Word $500 Horror Story Halloween Contest

Posted on August 14, 2018January 28, 2023 by Richard

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,

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51 Word Summer Story Contest

51 Word Summer Story Contest

Posted on June 24, 2018January 28, 2023 by Richard

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…

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Every Writer Halloween 50 Word Scary Story Contest!

Every Writer Halloween 50 Word Scary Story Contest!

Posted on October 16, 2017February 3, 2023 by Richard

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…

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500 word scary story contest

500 Word Scary Story contest! Over $10,000 in promotions.

Posted on October 8, 2017February 3, 2023 by Richard

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,

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