Participate in Ethos Literacy’s 6th Annual Short Short Story Contest and showcase your creativity by writing a captivating 100-word story on one of four interesting topics: envy, eyeglasses, nightmares, turtles.

The organizer will award monetary prizes, including a special Youth Prize for writers 14 years old and younger. Winning and Honorable Mention stories will be featured in an e-magazine.

Winning and honorable mention stories will be published in a e-zine.

Contest participants will be notified of the results in March or April 2025.

We are keen to encourage quality, so suggest writers to check their stories before submitting using Prowritingaid. They have free and paid versions and are the best writing software we know to help improve grammar, readability and check for repetition, ‘sticky’ sentences and suggest alternatives.