ENTRIES MUST FOLLOW ALL RULES TO BE ACCEPTED
Contest Entry Form available starting August 6.
To be eligible for judging, a story must follow all Nonfiction Short Story Contest Rules.
Click for the Short Story Contest Judging Rubric Overview as a .pdf file.
Judges will score stories “blind”—without information to identify the author and will assess a score from 1 (Low) to 5 (High) for each of these categories:
- Opening
- Closing
- Story Arc
- Story Impact
- Characters
- Description
- Language
- Theme
- Mechanics
- Flow
- Spelling
- Grammar
Only the stories with the highest scores will be submitted to the Guest Judge for final selection.
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