Deadline: 15th of each month
Every month, the writer of the top story will receive a £100 (stg) prize, or your local currency equivalent as well as publication. In addition, 2nd place receives £50.00, 3rd, 4th and 5th place each receive £25.00. The competition is open to anyone and everyone – whether you're published, unpublished or a Pulitzer prize winning author. If you want to start earning money as a writer, then register now.
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
For us there are no specific formulae that a spine tingling story must conform to. It doesn't have to be macabre and morose; it can be light-hearted or even uplifting. Whether it is filled with ghosts or ghouls, possessions or poltergeists, or merely the suggestion of something supernatural, anything is acceptable. We want you to let your imagination run wild and come up with the story or stories that make our spine tingle.
We are not placing any restrictions on the content but we would ask that you stick to the following guidelines:
(1) We would ask you to keep your stories under 5,000 words if possible. If you go a bit over that is okay. No story will be rejected because it happens to be 5,100 words.
(2) Please make sure that you read through your story carefully before submitting it. Check for spelling mistakes and grammatical errors.
Stories with quite a few mistakes will be automatically rejected.
(3) Your story can be violent or leaning towards erotica but please nothing too explicit. Again anything too gratuitous may be automatically rejected.
All stories will be treated equally, we are not asking for bios or previous publishing experience. We want each story to stand on its own merit no matter what the writers experience.
Each month we publish on the website the best five stories submitted. The overall monthly winner, as well as receiving publication will also receive a £100 (stg) prize! Second place receives £50, with 3rd, 4th and 5th all receiving £25 each. The prizes quoted are in Sterling (British Pounds) but if you live outside of the UK you will be paid the equivalent amount in your local currency. The overall winner each month is guaranteed to be included in our printed Anthology which we publish each year. The rest of the stories published also have a chance to get included in the Anthology as 12 out of the 25 stories in each Anthology are voted for by our members. Winners will receive their prize money within three months from the date of publication.
Whilst we may deem a particular story to be the best of those submitted we encourage you to voice your opinion on all of the stories in our forum.
Also you will be able to rate the stories. The ratings that stories are given will be totally based on the readers contribution and will not reflect views of the Spinetinglers panel.
Spinetinglers is an on-going internet site so there are no deadlines for submission. However, we would ask for our ease, that if you wish to make your submission for the following month, your submission must be in by the 15th of the month. If it is submitted after the 15th your work will be considered for the following month.
By submitting your work to the Spinetinglers Monthly Short Story Competition you are granting us permission to publish your work online. You are also granting permission for us to include it (at our discretion) in one of our annual printed Spinetinglers Anthologies as well as an eBook version of the Spinetinglers Anthology.
CONTACT INFORMATION:
For submissions: register here to submit your story
Website: http://spinetinglers.co.uk/