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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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Word Scramble for Writers

Posted on November 2, 2020October 22, 2024 by Richard

Welcome to our Word Scramble for Writers. These are 8 to 10 words we pick every week to let you test your word skills. We find, sometimes, writers need to decompress, and put your time in the comments, so we can compare.

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Writing Challenge: Exquisite Corpse November 2020

Posted on November 2, 2020April 18, 2025 by Richard

This an Exquisite Corpse. An Exquisite Corpse is a writing or art game where you complete the story, poem or drawing in parts.

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Winner Bedtime by DanaSan

Posted on October 31, 2020October 31, 2020 by Richard

Congratulations to our Winner DanaSan. She has won our 2020 50 word horror contest! Please congratulate her in the comments below. 

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Dear Whoever You Are by Angela Carlton

Posted on October 31, 2020October 31, 2020 by Angela Carlton

For that is the question, isn’t it? I don’t know who you are anymore. Once, you were the guy, my carefree man with those sea-glass colored eyes and that laugh.

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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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10 Tiny Tales that will Terrorize You

Posted on October 10, 2020October 10, 2020 by Richard

Here are 10 Tiny Tales that will Terrorize You. These scary stories are written by new, up and coming authors. As a writer if you can inspire emotions in your readers

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10 Greatest Classic Horror Stories of All Time

10 Greatest Classic Horror Stories of all Time

Posted on October 9, 2020November 2, 2020 by Richard

When looking at the Greatest Classic Horror Stories of all time we are defining classic here as anything that has not been published in contemporary times. I’m not defining contemporary times in any strict way here.

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10 Scariest Short Film on Youtube

10 Scariest Short Film on Youtube

Posted on October 8, 2020October 10, 2020 by Richard

We wanted to do a 10 Scariest Short Film on Youtube list for you. I’m a big fan of little horror,  but short Horror films on Youtube are numerous. Many are simply terrible. From bad acting to not scary

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Halloween Call for Submissions!

Posted on October 8, 2020October 8, 2020 by Richard

Happy Halloween! Our site is going horror for the month of October, and we are looking for articles about horror writing or horror, submissions of horror fiction and creepy or spooky poetry.

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How to Become a Werewolf by Elliott O’Donnell

Posted on October 2, 2020October 4, 2021 by Richard

How to Become a Werewolf AS I have already stated, in some people lycanthropy is hereditary; and when it is not hereditary it may be acquired through the performance of certain of the rites ordained by Black Magic. For the present I can only deal with the more general features of these rites (which vary…

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A Key to Voice by Ian Martínez Cassmeyer

Posted on September 9, 2020January 25, 2023 by Richard

One concept writing-program instructors love to discuss, in lieu of craft, which might better serve their students, is voice. It seems absurd to do so because voice is the one thing one cannot teach in writing,

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3 Reasons Why Horror has Cultural Value

3 Reasons Why Horror has Cultural Value

Posted on September 8, 2020September 9, 2020 by Richard

3 Reasons Why Horror has Cultural Value: Though they capture the imaginations of many, tales of the weird, the fantastical, and the horrifying tend to be regarded as lesser works of literature–assuming they’re considered literature at all.  

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An Unlikely Heritage

Posted on June 16, 2020 by Sherri Crandall

I am sharing a story about by grandfather who was a violinist and as a young man lived in China. The story connects his love of music and the country of China to my daughter whom we adopted from China and now plays his violin.

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A Note from Richard

After navigating some family health challenges over the past few months, I’m back to publishing regularly. I hope to return to a full schedule soon, but I appreciate your patience as I rebuild momentum. Thank you for sticking with Every Writer – your support means everything.

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