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Competitions with no entry fee, read blind by our editorial panel. Some of our best-selling authors arrived through exactly this door.

Before you enter

Rules that apply to every challenge

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Entry is free. We will never ask you to pay to be read or to be published.
You keep the copyright to your work. We ask only for first publication rights for winning entries.
Work must be your own and previously unpublished, including on blogs and social media.
Entries are read without names attached — the panel does not know who wrote what.
Results are announced by email and on our Instagram. Every entrant hears from us either way.
Send entries as a PDF or Word attachment, with your name and contact details in the email body only.

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