Submit Your Story

Submission Guidelines

• Eligibility

  Open to everyone. One entry per person.

• Genre

  Fiction or nonfiction.

• Length

  1000 to 5000 words.

• Format

  Markdown or PDF.

• Copyright

  Submissions must be licensed CC BY-NC or under a freer license, so they may be republished.

• Deadline

  11:59 PM PT, October 31, 2026.

• AI Use

  LLM use is permitted, but discouraged; we remind participants that LLM use tends to reduce originality and writing quality, and the flaws are especially obvious when LLM outputs are read as a group---unskillful use of LLMs will reduce the odds of being the best entry. We request disclosure of AI use.