Marrow is excited to announce Rotten: a literary contest seeking your darkest, fabulist tales of love gone off. The organizer is looking for stories, poems, nonfiction, and visual art that explores the decay, monstrosity, and unpalatable truths beneath romance. Submit your dark, feminist pieces where passion has soured, affection has turned rancid, and devotion has become grotesque.

The organizer is looking for: Up to 3 poems, 3 art pieces, or prose up to 5,000 words exploring themes of decay, monstrosity, and betrayal in love. Hybrid, multimedia, and genreless work is welcome.

Winners announced February 14, 2025.

Prizes:

• 1st place: $200 + publication
• 2nd place: $50 + publication
• Honorable mentions: Publication

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.