Star of the Winter

December Short Story Contest

Welcome to the Star of the Winter, a December short story contest!

Photo by Aydin Hassan on Unsplash

For those of you who don’t know what this is, we occasionally host writing contests. They are a chance to write a short story on a given theme. Hopefully enhancing your writing capabilities and giving you a chance to spread the word about your writing capabilities. Given the time of year, we decided to make this a Winter themed contest. This is only the 3rd Writing Contest in the history of the YA section! We hope that you will join us and share your story!

Quick disclaimer: we do require a minimum of 4 contestants to enter. If there are less than 4 contestants, we will not announce winners. Please spread the news and share this contest with everyone you think would be interested in joining.

Theme

The theme of this contest as stated above is Winter Themed. It’s a pretty broad category and there are no super specific requirements. However, we do require that the story be set in a winter aspect. This could be wintery scenes, a Christmas scene, a cold crisp day, however you want to set it up. We will be judging the stories based on a couple things. The first is how well you followed the theme, if there is nothing remotely similar to winter in it, we will have a problem with that. The second thing that will be taken into consideration is the quality of your writing, fairly simple so I’m not going to explain it. The third main thing that will be taken into consideration is how well you grab our attention and keep it. Does the story follow a good plotline? Does it all make sense? And does it make us want to keep reading? With that in mind let’s move on to the guidelines.

Guidelines

Your story should be between 1,000 and 8,000 words. We prohibit swearing, graphic violence, and inappropriate themes. There are no major requirements for how your story should flow so feel free to be creative with this one. Adults are allowed to submit their stories, but if less than two adults enter, their stories will be judged with the rest. This contest will produce gold and silver winners. The gold winner will be offered a chance to be a guest author for the YA section, if declined it will go to the silver winner. Both gold and silver winners will have their story featured on the YA section.

The deadline for this month’s contest is Tuesday, December 31st at 11:59pm your time. To enter this contest, you do have to be a subscriber to the YA Section. The winners will most likely be posted before the 11th of January. If there is any reason you may have to submit late, please send

K.e.n

a message letting me know so we can make arrangements and possibly still accept your story.

We hope you all enjoy writing your stories for Star of the Winter. Once you’ve finished, you may submit your story using the form below. Please note that the form will ask for a link to your story. We request links to docs made using Microsoft Word, Google Docs, or something similar. Overall, make sure to have fun! Don’t forget that the deadline is December 31st.