
500-Word Essay Contest Third-Place: “Mother and the Whale”
Daddy’s sailboat capsized in a giant seiche off a northern Lake Michigan shore and his body was never found.
Read the winning entries from previous writing contests sponsored by The Writer.
Daddy’s sailboat capsized in a giant seiche off a northern Lake Michigan shore and his body was never found.
“Half a Bear Hug” By Beverly Rose My grandfather became my legal guardian after tragedy made me mostly an orphan: a mother dead from childbirth … Read More “500-Word Essay Contest Second-Place: “Half a Bear Hug””
The winning entry in our 2022 500-Word Essay Contest: “Dog Tags,” by Michelle Y. Green, a portrait of her late father, a three-war veteran.
Her story, A Viking Funeral, by Mary Charles, is the essay contest winner of The Writer magazine’s competition.
Read the third-place winner of our 2021 Fall Short Story Contest.
Read the second-place winner of our 2021 Fall Short Story Contest.
Walter took his Batman cup to the kitchen because maybe there was still apple juice. Ignorant of spirits, he had inaccurately deduced what Bruce Wayne … Read More “2021 Fall Short Story Contest Winner: “The Refrigerator Test””
Read the grand-prize winner of our 100-Word Contest.
Aleece told me that Brownie had run away from home. My heart stopped cold when I recognized her shaggy body stuffed, still as a rod … Read More “Second-Place 100-Word Contest Winner: “Preserved””
Melody could sometimes hear the faint rhythmic clicks when standing in the kitchen. Otherwise the hundreds of dull-faced dolls that she had placed in … Read More “Third-Place 100-Word Contest Winner: “Surrounded””