Good creative writing contests?

[screechingWizard745]

I'm a teen in high school and I enjoy writing. I recently posted one of my stories on Facebook and got lots of good feedback. I'm looking for a writing contest or something along those line that is free to enter. Any ideas?

[Darren]

http://www.writersdigest.com/competition...mpetitions

just one of many websites like it I imagine.

I just googled "writing competitions"

[Allie]

NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) (http://nanowrimo.org/) is one of my favourites. You have to write at least 50,000 words each November (I think) and it's free. I'm not sure if you win a prize or anything though.

Some authors have writing competitions on their websites too. Like Cathy Cassidy (http://www.cathycassidy.com/you/writing_workshops), for example. I've entered a few of hers. Every once in a while there's a new one, and they're all in different categories. The category for the current competition is 'Broken.' It closes on the 31st of March and the story only has to be 1000 words or less. It's good for beginners who want to get noticed. It's free as well and you can win something. You don't have to be a fan of Cathy Cassidy to enter. Even if it's the complete opposite of her style of writing, you can still win if it's good enough. You can also enter poems.

One that I just randomly googled is: http://www.prizemagic.co.uk/html/writing_comps.htm
I'm not sure if they're any good because, like I say, I just randomly googled it. Some of them have entry fees but some are free - or at least one because I only looked at it for like 30 seconds but whatever.

Some good websites that you can post your writing on are Wattpad and FictionPress. They aren't competitions but you can get constructive criticism and you can get really popular and stuff on them. I know that some people have gotten really popular on Wattpad and publishers have read their books on there and offered to publish them. Or if they get good feedback they sometimes self publish them and tell their followers and readers who buy them.

If you really want to go for it, you can even sell your books on Amazon or something. Go to http://www.amazon.com/gp/seller-account/...=200260520 and you can get it published either on Kindle, to print or on audio. If you publish it on Kindle, it costs nothing but you still make money. So that one's pretty good. I'm planning on doing that sometime.

If you decide to check out Wattpad (or if you already have and you like it) then check out my profile notAllieTaylor (http://www.wattpad.com/user/notAllieTaylor). I haven't written any stories on there yet, but I'm probably going to unless I die or something before I get the chance.

Hope I helped!

-Allie xxx

[agilebrit]

http://www.ralan.com/m.contest.htm

If your story is under 17,500 words and has a speculative fiction element (SF/F/H), you can send it to Writers of the Future, which I enter every quarter.