Halloween Writing Competition 2024

Join us this October for the Creative Writing Society’s first writing competition! Submissions will be open from 18:30 24th October until 20:00 7th November. Depending on the number of submissions received, a ‘Top Ten’ shortlist may be curated, and from there a ‘Top Three’ will be selected.

Rules:

• All submissions must abide by the Society’s Rules and Guidelines, which can be found within the Discord server under the same channel name. This means submissions must abide by ENSA policies, not contain sexually explicit content, and Artificial Intelligence cannot be used as any part of the creative process.
• All submissions must be a MAXIMUM of 2k words. There is no minimum word count.
• Submissions must be submitted before the deadline; any submissions entered afterwards will not be considered part of the competition.
• Entrants are limited to ONE submission. All submissions entered after the first will be discounted.
• Submissions must be a PDF.
• Please add any trigger or content warnings to the top of your document, if necessary. Common content warnings include, but are not limited to: graphic violence, self-harm and mental health issues, blood, animal abuse, death, addiction, as well as many more.

Any submissions breaking one or more of these rules will be disqualified.

You can find the detailed documentation here. 

If you have any questions or concerns, please email us at napiercreativewritingsoc@gmail.com.