Short Short Story Contest

Reading Works Second Annual Short Short Story Contest.

Reading Works is a nonprofit, community-based literacy program that provides free tutoring to teens and adults in reading, writing and speaking English. We are located in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The Contest is a fundraiser to support our programs.

The challenge is to write a story using no more than 100 words that relates in some way to one of these topics:

• water
• 1940s
• bowling
• ants.

Seven Cash Prizes:

• Best of Contest ($100)
• Best of Category ($50)
• Best Youth Story (author is 14 or younger) ($50)
• People’s Choice ($50)

Submission Dates: October 1, 2020 to January 15, 2021.

Submission Fee: $10 per story paid on our website: www.reading-works.org.