The 2nd Round of the Rhyming Story Challenge 2025 is underway! View the list of participating writers, genre/theme/emotion assignments, and a countdown until the deadline at nycmidnight.co/3WHZFoA. Best of luck to the 432 participating writers over the next three days!
07.11.2025 05:00 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
1st Round Results 2025 — nycmidnight
The 1st Round results from the Rhyming Story Challenge 2025.
The 1st Round results for the Rhyming Story Challenge 2025 are up at www.nycmidnight.com/rsc/2025-1st...! Congratulations to the top 8 in each group for advancing to the 2nd Round, which kicks off this Thursday, November 6th. Best of luck to them, and thanks to all who participated!
05.11.2025 04:16 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The Scary Story Challenge 2025 is officially underway! View your scare/action/character assignment, a countdown to the deadline, and upload link at bit.ly/3X3VZ0i. Best of luck to the 3,600+ writers participating worldwide over the next 48 hours, and Happy Halloween! #ScaryStoryChallenge
01.11.2025 04:00 — 👍 12 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 3
Scary Story Challenge — nycmidnight
The Scary Story Challenge is a creative writing competition that challenges writers worldwide to create scary short stories based on assigned prompts in 48 hours.
The Scary Story Challenge kicks off TONIGHT, and there is still time to register! When the competition begins at 11:59 PM New York time, writers worldwide will be challenged to craft scary stories in 48 hours. Learn more and register at www.nycmidnight.com/scary. Happy Halloween! 🎃
31.10.2025 15:19 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
The Scary Story Challenge kicks off in one week! On October 31st, writers worldwide will be challenged to create scary short stories in 48 hours. Learn more and register at nycmidnight.com/scary. Good luck, writers! #scary #scarystories
24.10.2025 15:17 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
The 100-word Microfiction Challenge — nycmidnight
The 100-word Microfiction Challenge is an international creative writing competition that challenges participants to create very short stories based on genre, action, and word assignments in just 24 h...
The 100-word Microfiction Challenge 2026 kicks off on March 20th! The 7th annual competition will challenge writers worldwide to create very short stories based on genre, action, and word assignments in 24 hours. Learn more and register at www.nycmidnight.com/100. Good luck, writers!
23.10.2025 13:37 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The Scary Story Challenge kicks off next Friday, October 31st! The inaugural competition will challenge writers worldwide to create scary short stories in 48 hours. Learn more and register at www.nycmidnight.com/scary. Good luck, writers! #scary #scarystories
21.10.2025 15:02 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
The Screenwriting Challenge — nycmidnight
The Screenwriting Challenge is an annual screenplay competition that challenges writers around the world to create short screenplays based on genre, subject, and character assignments in as little as ...
The 23rd annual Screenwriting Challenge kicks off on February 13th and will challenge writers worldwide to create short screenplays based on genre, subject, and character assignments. Learn more, register, and read previous winners at www.nycmidnight.com/scc. Good luck, writers! #screenwriting
15.10.2025 19:37 — 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
The 2nd Round of the 500-word Fiction Challenge 2025 is underway! View the list of participating writers, genre/action/object assignments, and a countdown until the deadline at nycmidnight.co/46SLX6W. Best of luck to the 880 participating writers over the next 48 hours!
04.10.2025 04:00 — 👍 9 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
1st Round Results 2025 — nycmidnight
The 1st Round results from the 500-word Fiction Challenge 2025.
The 1st Round results for the 500-word Fiction Challenge 2025 are up at nycmidnight.co/4gQYNXG! Congratulations to the top 10 in each group for advancing to the 2nd Round, which kicks off this Friday, October 3rd. Best of luck to them, and thanks to all who participated!
02.10.2025 02:18 — 👍 10 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 8
The Short Story Challenge — nycmidnight
The Short Story Challenge is an annual creative writing competition that challenges writers around the world to create short stories based on genre, subject, and character assignments in as little as ...
The 20th annual Short Story Challenge kicks off on January 23rd and will challenge writers worldwide to create short stories based on genre, subject, and character assignments. Learn more, register, and read previous winning stories at www.nycmidnight.com/ssc. Good luck, writers!
29.09.2025 18:41 — 👍 10 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
We would like to send a hearty congratulations to long-time participant Paulene Turner on the publication of her most recent book, Heartbeats! Heartbeats is a compilation of short stories in a variety of genres, and most were created for our challenges. Learn more at shorturl.at/cGkEW.
27.09.2025 17:54 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The Final Round of the Flash Fiction Challenge 2025 is underway! The final assignment of the competition is Open (genre), A visitor center/centre (location), and leftover food (object). Best of luck to the 66 finalists with their 1,000-word stories over the next 48 hours!
20.09.2025 03:59 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
2nd Round Results — nycmidnight
The 2nd Round results from the Flash Fiction Challenge 2025.
The 2nd Round results for the Flash Fiction Challenge 2025 are up at nycmidnight.co/3IrOVXO! Congratulations to the top three in each group for advancing to the Final Round, which kicks off this Friday, September 19th. Best of luck to them, and thanks to all who participated!
18.09.2025 00:37 — 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
Final Round Results 2025 — nycmidnight
The Final Round results of the Short Story Challenge 2025! This page contains the top 10 stories and honorable mentions from the fourth and final round of the competition.
We finally have a winner of the Short Story Challenge 2025! Congratulations to D.R. Forge (New York, USA) for taking the grand prize with their story, "When Dragons Do Laundry." Check out the full list of 2025 winners at nycmidnight.co/4gfpghq. Thanks to all who participated!
11.09.2025 02:11 — 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 2
1st Round Assignments 2025 — nycmidnight
The Rhyming Story Challenge 2025 is officially underway! This page contains the 1st Round assignments, a countdown to the submission deadline, details on how to upload your story, and more. Good…
The Rhyming Story Challenge 2025 is officially underway! View the genre/theme/emotion assignments, a countdown to the deadline, and upload link at nycmidnight.co/3VxkSRo. Best of luck to the 1,500+ writers participating worldwide over the next 8 days!
06.09.2025 04:01 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
The Rhyming Story Challenge — nycmidnight
The Rhyming Story Challenge is a creative writing competition that challenges writers worldwide to create rhyming stories based on three assigned prompts in as little as 48 hours.
The Rhyming Story Challenge 2025 kicks off tonight, and there is still time to register! The 4th annual competition will challenge writers worldwide to create short rhyming stories based on genre, theme, and emotion assignments. Learn more and register at www.nycmidnight.com/rhyme. Good luck!
05.09.2025 14:18 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 2
We would like to send out a massive congrats to Joanne Yi on her debut novel, "All the Tomorrows After"! Joanne helped out behind the scenes with NYC Midnight for several years before moving on to focus on her novel, which was an August Book of the Month pick. Learn more at her website, joanneyi.com
03.09.2025 14:36 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Motel-day — nycmidnight
An Aussie ballad: A son recalls days of hay-making, burnt chicken and gobstopper-filled family road trips to Aunty Jo's as he visits his unstoppable Dad for the very last time. Length: 490 words Ye...
We're proud to present the winning story from last year's Rhyming Challenge! Get the tissues ready, and read "Motel-day" by Louise Walton (Australia) at bit.ly/motel-day. Original illustration by @znayberg. Enjoy, and get ready for this year's Rhyming Challenge on Friday!
02.09.2025 15:20 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
The God of Giving Up — nycmidnight
An elderly woman accepts her fate among the stars. Length: 448 words Year: 2024
Check out the 2nd place story from last year's Rhyming Story Challenge, "The God of Giving Up" by Alexandria Bellani (Canberra, Australia), at bit.ly/45VZc6l. The original illustration is by Yevgenia Nayberg. Enjoy, and get ready for this year's Rhyming Story Challenge on September 5th!
29.08.2025 17:10 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
Final Round Results 2025 — nycmidnight
The results are in for the Final Round of the 100-word Microfiction Challenge 2025! This page contains the top 10 stories and honorable mentions from the final round of the competition.
A huge congratulations to Christy Hartman (Canada) for winning the 100-word Microfiction Challenge for the second consecutive year with her final round story, "Impossible Choice." Check out the full list of 2025 winners at nycmidnight.co/4p1p5KM. Thanks to all who participated!
28.08.2025 03:26 — 👍 18 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 3
The End of Nanga Brook — nycmidnight
In January 1961, bushfires destroyed the town of Nanga Brook in south-west Western Australia. It was never rebuilt. Length: 448 words Year: 2024
We’re happy to announce that we'll be publishing the top 3 stories from last year’s Rhyming Story Challenge! First up is the 3rd place story, “The End of Nanga Brook” by David Trunkfield (Perth, Australia), at nycmidnight.co/47N21sO. Original illustration by Yevgenia Nayberg. Enjoy!
27.08.2025 16:02 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
Upload success screen for the NYC Midnight 500-word fiction challenge 2025
Always a wonderful feeling to submit! Despite despairing at the genre assignment, I have to say I rather adore my story in all its darkness!
Thanks @nycmidnight.bsky.social for pushing me out of comfort zone as always!
#Writing #WritingComps #NothingBetterThanTheFeelingOfSubmitting
17.08.2025 15:27 — 👍 11 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
The 500-word Fiction Challenge 2025 is officially underway! View your genre/action/object assignment, a countdown to the deadline, and upload link at nycmidnight.co/41K87Gu. Best of luck to the 3,400+ writers participating worldwide over the next 48 hours! #500WordChallenge2025
16.08.2025 04:00 — 👍 9 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 2
Thanks for your interest! The dates are not finalized just yet, but will most likely be announced by next month. Please let us know if you have any other questions or need anything else in the meantime. Thanks again!
15.08.2025 18:21 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
500-word Fiction Challenge — nycmidnight
The 500-word Fiction Challenge is an international creative writing competition that challenges participants to create short stories based on genre, action, and object assignments in 48 hours.
The 500-word Fiction Challenge kicks off tonight, and there is still time to register! The 3rd annual competition will challenge writers worldwide to create short stories based on genre, action, and object assignments in 48 hours. Learn more & register at nycmidnight.com/500. Good luck, writers!
15.08.2025 17:15 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 3
Watchmaker’s Hands — nycmidnight
Steady as the earth below, until they weren’t. Length: 500 words Year: 2024
We are proud to present the winning story from last year's 500-word Fiction Challenge! Read "Watchmaker's Hands" by
@scmillsbooks.bsky.social at nycmidnight.co/411DmwA. Original illustration by Yevgenia Nayberg. Enjoy, and get ready for this year's 500-word challenge kicking off on August 15th!
12.08.2025 15:59 — 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 2
🥳 Congratulations to Tom and the top finishers in
@nycmidnight.bsky.social's Screenwriting Challenge 2025! We're happy to have been a title sponsor for this year's contest and want to thank all participants.
07.08.2025 23:35 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
When The Blue Smoke Drowns — nycmidnight
An Appalachian woman ponders life after Hurricane Helene. Length: 500 words Year: 2024
Check out "When The Blue Smoke Drowns" by Rachel Harbaugh (USA) at nycmidnight.co/4m6qeyR, which took home 2nd place in last year's 500-word Fiction Challenge. Synopsis: An Appalachian woman ponders life after Hurricane Helene. Illustration by Yevgenia Nayberg. Enjoy!
07.08.2025 20:00 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
We have a winner of the Screenwriting Challenge 2025! Congratulations to Tom Glasson (Sydney, Australia) for winning the competition with his final round screenplay, "An Abundance of Five." View the full list of winners at nycmidnight.co/4op0FdG. Thanks to all for participating!
07.08.2025 02:00 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
