The Short Story Award for New Writers is open from May 15 – July 15, 2016 and will award $2000 to the winner — the best piece of fiction by an emerging writer. Second and third place prizes will be $200 and $100, respectively, and all three stories w
Wicked Ink Books (est. 2015), an indie publisher of sci-fi/fantasy anthologies, announced the editors are accepting stories for a new anthology to be published in 2017. The theme is Songs. Writers are challenged to create a spectacular speculative fi
Tethered By Letters(TBL) is pleased to announce the F(r)iction Spring Literary Competition. There are three submission categories: 1) short stories of any genre ranging from 1,000 to 7,500 words, 2) flash fiction with a word limit of 750 words, and 3
The prize, worth £30,000 to the winner, is an international award, founded in 2010, that is open to any story of up to 6,000 words written in English. Stories need to have been either previously unpublished or
So I want to make a science fiction story involving African Americans or Africans but I don't know how to go about doing it. Any suggestions. Also I'm at the starting point. I don't have any ideas yet but I was hoping if I could get some inspiration
Hi My name is Marcellus white I am a writer director looking to collaborate with other writers interested in fantasy sci-fi. My idea has to deal with a paradigm shift of earth has forced the spiritual world to come back and take over earth as a new
Have you ever been to a family reunion—someone else’s family—and somebody says, “You remember the time Pooky went to that place and did that thing?” and everyone else either laughs or shakes their head or crosses themselves and you’re the only one wh
It’s not too much of a stretch to say that the root causes of the events in Captain America: Civil War are the same as the root cause of that other Civil War, servitude verses self-determination. The United Nations decides that despite saving the wor
Well, I’ve spent the best part of 3 years forging my first novel called The Black Guard: Quest For The Inviolable Man. It’s a military space opera that blends science and fantasy together and it’s currently available on amazon. It was
What can you say about a movie that’s filled with graphic, gratuitous violence, substance abuse, a constant stream of profanity and inappropriate dialogue, sexual humor on the most juvenile level, and cynical characters who don’t seem to care for any
The submission process starts now and ends July 15th with the lucky grant winners getting their money in the fall. The grant win-ners will keep the rights to their script, but they will also have to explain to Google how they spent the $15,000 to cre
d in reviewing my book, Siren's Call (part 2 is available as well if requested. This book won the 2015 Readers Favorite Silver medal and I am excited to say the last book in the trilogy will come out this y
In the Future We’ll All Be Identified by Our 'Brainprints' Written by SARAH EMERSON CONTRIBUTING EDITOR April 18, 2016 // 03:56 PM EST COPY THIS URL Have you ever encountered an innovation in
I recently released a Paranormal Romance New Adult novel, that has some thriller, horror and erotic elements. It's New Adult, so the characters are college aged. New Adult gets a bad wrap for a number of reasons, but I do my best to avoid some of the
I fell down the rabbit hole in search of something different and good to read. While checking out the synopsis of one book i stumbled on a graphic novel series, The Pack by Paul Louise-Julie
"The Pack" is a Graphic Novel about a motley group of Nubia