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Short Stories
Short story writing is an ongoing competition. Write a short story, of no more than 5,000 words, on one or more of the themes below.
The competition is open to these age groups:
10-12 year-olds
13-16 year-olds
All submissions are free.
Make sure that you have a unique title for your story. Do not use the theme name as your title.
We have two voting periods:
Blue period: July - December. Voting takes place in January. Winners are informed in February.
Themes
Monty's Winter Adventures
Adventure - fiction or non-fiction
Good night story
Thriller - fiction
Green period: January - June. Voting takes place in July. Winners are informed in August.
Themes
Monty's Summer Adventures
Suspense - fiction
Humorous – fiction or non-fiction
Crime detective – fiction
If you have a story that is not related to one of these themes, you can still show your work by adding it directly to your blog.
Rules
Entrants will be notified via email when the voting period starts.
Entries for the Blue and Green periods must be on the subject of the selected theme(s).
Entries must be in plain text (txt) or Word (doc) format and submitted online.
Each story must be the original work of the author, and must not have been previously published, broadcast or submitted to another competition.
Winners will be notified by email one month after the voting period ends.
Winners' names will be published on Monty's Corner with the consent of their parents or legal guardians.
Winning entries will be published on Monty's Corner.
The copyright of each story remains with the author. Authors of the winning stories will grant Monty's Corner permission to publish or broadcast the stories in other formats.
