Novella (http://novella.co.in) is a place for aspiring authors as well as established authors to publish their work for avid readers who prefer their reads, short. Novella is your go-to place for a large collection of short stories from various genres.
Novella is organising a national level short story writing contest.

Terms and Conditions

Stories uploaded on NOVELLA.CO.IN between 20th November, 2018 and 15th January, 2019 will be considered for the Competition
The Author is free to choose the theme, genre or topic for the Short Story.
The stories should be less than 2000 words.
The stories should be in ORIGINAL and in ENGLISH only; and should NOT be published or produced elsewhere.
Competition is open for all.
The competition will be held in three categories based on the age of author as on 15th January, 2019
Juniors - Below 14 years
Youth - 14 years and below 24 years
Seniors - 24 years and Above
One Author can submit more than one entry for this contest. Please note that each entry or submission will be judged separately.
Shortlisted Finalist will be announced on 20th January, 2019 on our website and all our social media channels
Lots of Prizes and Gift vouchers to be won.
Shortlisting Criteria will be as below:

Important Dates:

Last Date of submission of stories 15th January, 2019 11.59 pm IST
Declaration of the Shortlist 20th January, 2019
Finale Event and Results 15th February, 2019

Click here to visit the organiser's website

www.monomousumi.com announces Quarterly Creative Writing competition for all who loves to write.

Eligibility: Any writer irrespective of age, profession

Nationality: Any nationality

Category-I (Essay, Story, Short story, Script, Letter, Debate, Spiritual contents)

First Prize: The first prize will be cash 5000 INR (for Indian winner) or $75 (for winner from outside India) and a certificate.

Second Prize: 1500 INR (for Indian winner) or $20 (for winner from outside India) and a certificate, sponsored by www.tradetokri.com

Category-II (Poem)

First Prize: The First Prize will be voucher for stay for two nights in Club Mahindra Resort.

Second Prize: 1000 INR (for Indian winner) or $15 (for winner from outside India) and a certificate

Apart from the first and second prizes, there will be some other prizes in the form of gift coupons or goodies sponsored by various corporate houses. All the participants will receive some prize & participation certificate.

Last date of submission is 31st December 2018

The participants have to pay registration/admin fee of 300 INR or $5

For further information visit https://monomousumi.com/quarterly-creative-writing-competition/

StarWords India in collaboration with Writeropedia welcomes your submissions in the form of Flash Fiction for which the guidelines are mentioned below.

• The flash fiction should only be written in ENGLISH.
• Each story must contain minimum 700 words and maximum 1000 words.
• You can choose your own theme as long as it is not offending under any circumstances.

Launched last year by Times of India with 11 leading Indian authors, Write India is a unique platform to inspire, encourage and evaluate good writing with the help of established authors. An unprecedented crowd-sourced short story contest, Write India attracts people of all ages and professions and has already turned many dreams into reality. Of the 111 winners declared for Season 1, 33 have already been printed, while many others are in the process of being published. Embarking on the second season, Write India is all set to uncover more of India’s story-telling potential with a panel of 10 star authors!

Last day of submission for Nikita Singh's contest is March 2. Entries will be accepted till midnight.

Write India Season 2 was launched on July 7, 2017 and is once again set to attract the best writing talent in India. Sir Jeffrey Archer and Ruskin Bond lead a starry line-up of 10 authors for Write India Season 2 -- Sudha Murty, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Anand Neelakantan, Shobhaa De, Manu Joseph, Namita Gokhale, Nikita Singh and Twinkle Khanna. Each of these authors will write a passage to inspire participants, who will then weave the same into their short stories. The genre and tenor of the story will be determined by rules laid down by mentor authors.

For further information click here

Stories and poems are invited for the fifth Sahithi award as part of the Inter university literature festival – Sahithi organized by the Faculty of Literature, Malayalam University .

Eligibility
College/University students from Kerala and outside may send in their entries along with a certificate issued by the head of the institution.

Prizes
The students who bag first and second places in the competition will be endowed with cash award, memento, and certificates.

Last date: 17th February 2018.
Entries are to be sent to the following address:
 Sahithi Literature award
Thunchath Ezhuthachan Malayalam University
Vakkad, Tirur , Malappuram
Kerala.  Pin:676 502,
or to sahithyajournal[at]gmail.com

Awards will be distributed to the winners at the literature conference organized in the university as part of world mother tongue day, on 21st February 2018.

Link to website

Sparsh is an opportunity for writers to showcase their imagination, abstractness and their storytelling prowess. Writing is skill whereas Storytelling is magic.

The competition is organised by QuoteUnquote.
The winner will win 10,000 INR and the story will be published on the website.

Contest Guidelines

• Read ALL the guidelines.
• Submissions should be previously unpublished,i.e original in English and less then 4,500 words. It's more likely to print shorter pieces.
• Stories from all genres are welcome.
• Most of our submissions are bleak. Happy pieces are more apt to stand out.
• Read stories that organisers  have previously published.
• Read stories that  organisers  have previously published.
• Organisers prefer writing with narrative.
• Organisers do not publish poetry, erotica, inspirational fiction, polemics, non-fiction, gore, fanfic or young adult fiction.
• At this time organisers are not interested in unsolicited artwork.
• No multiple submissions, one per reading period except by invitation.
• No simultaneous submissions.
• Cover letters are discarded unread.
• Review by judges is blind. Do not include your name inside your submission. Works with identifying information will be returned unread.
• Please don't send your trunk stories.
• Submission is open to all writers.
• Got questions? E-mail the editors at queries@thequoteunquote.com

The New Town Kolkata Development Authority is organising competitions in connection with World Environment Day celebrations.
The New Town Kolkata Development Authority  has been constituted under The New Town Kolkata Development Authority Act,2007 (the West Bengal Act XXX of 2007) for rendering various civic services and amenities and undertaking uniform developmental works within New Town Kolkata and it has come become operational since January,2009.

Essay / poem/ short story Competition
Date of submission: 05.06.2017 to 05.09.2017
Topic :How to make New Town more environment friendly
Eligibility : Any one can apply
Medium of writing: Bengali / English / Hindi

Terms & Conditions
1. Indian citizens can take part in this competition.

2. Word limit for the essays or poem or short story for participants is 1000 words

3. The participants will have to submit their Essay / Poem/ Short story on or before 05.09.2017 through email. Email address is info@wbhidco.in . In subject line, please write “NEW TOWN”

4. The lines should be double spaced and large fonts (14+). The numbers of words should be mentioned in all cases at the end. For handwritten texts, scanned copies may be sent by email.

5. One participant can participate once only.

6. Plagiarism will lead to cancellation of the Essay / poem/ short story.

7. The decision of the competent authority will be final.

8. The authority reserves the right to edit and publish and circulate the competition essay / poem/ short story in printing and electronic mode.

9. Participants should submit following information along with their essay / poem/ short story a) Name, b) address, c) Sex, d) Date of birth, e) contact no.

10. Best three (3) will be selected for the prizes.

11. No entry fee is needed.

Visit the website for further information

Tata Steel brings you the first edition of The Write Brain Challenge 2016. Pen down a short story and get a chance to interact with the literary legends on a dinner date at Tata Steel Kolkata Literary Meet.

Top writers will also be felicitated at Tata Steel Kolkata Literary Meet by renowned authors!

Submission: 4th January, 2017 to 14th January, 2017

Terms & conditions:

* The contest is open only to students above the age of 16.
* The theme of your writing should revolve around 'Freedom'.
* Entries are restricted to 500 - 700 words.
* Entries must only be in English.
* There are No genre restrictions.
* Participant can be from anywhere in India.
* A total of 3 participants will be declared winner and will be invited to Tata Steel Kolkata Literary Meet.
* The shortlisting of participants will purely be based on literary merit by the jury.

* Offline participants from Odisha will be felicitated at Bhubaneswar Literary Meet.

Click here to submit your entry

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