Even though it’s billed as a bad writing contest, I tend to choose sentences that are well-written but weird and funny, which ...

I struggled to get my first novel, “The Beasts They Turned Away,” published. It was set on a dairy farm, embraced the Gothic, and included a lot of details about agriculture. It took a year and a half ...

Editor’s note: The second annual “Best in Rural Writing Contest” was presented by the rural literary journal The Milk House with promotional support from the Daily Yonder. Judge Dr. Chea Parton ...

The Howe Writing Center is thrilled to announce the winners of their Fall 2025 Creative Writing Contests. The first contest invited writers to submit a prose poem response to an artwork in the Faculty ...

When our school signed up for the Tadpole Press 100-Word Writing Contest, I saw it as more than just an enrichment activity. It was a chance to show every student that storytelling was for them. Not ...

The Young People's Creative Writing Contest is accepting submissions until February 28 and the Adult Creative Writing Contest will be accepting submissions until March 31. Students ages 10-18 can ...