“She had a body that reached out and slapped my face like a five-pound ham-hock tossed from a speeding truck.” That sentence, submitted by Lawrence Person of Austin, Texas, was the Grand Prize Winner ...

Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items. One of the things we love about reading the pieces submitted to the Pasatiempo Writing Contest is that it truly ...

It’s been one year since I launched last year’s ninth sort-of-annual local edition of the Bulwer-Lytton Bad Writing Contest. It was the best remedy I could think of for being sheltered at home as the ...

When our school signed up for the Tadpole Press 100-Word Writing Contest, I saw it as more than just an enrichment activity. It was a chance to show every student that storytelling was for them. Not ...