Get Paid, Get Motivated: Online Writing Contests with Dollar Prizes

If you are indie writer for online novels, especially amateur one, I bet you have stuck in a certain kind of “sleep mode”once. No matter it is for your busy schedule, bottleneck in creation, or even your procrastination, you just find yourself remained stagnant for some reason. You strive to regain your morale and clear your thought, and remind yourself of active feedback and comment of your readers would be a positive motive for most of writers who are developing their serial stories online. However, spiritual encouragement is not powerful enough. In this respect, a paid work would be a good choice. You could consider either contribution to paid reading site, or join writing contest run by provider of free online books.
Here are some recommended sites for you, as an online novel writer, to get access to exciting online writing contest to earn you some rewards. These sites would regularly or irregularly start contests with various theme. Just keep an eye on them and see what kind of topics are suitable for you.
Wattpad
www.wattpad.com/go/writing-contests
The famous community for you to read and share your own stories features a stream of contests in various themes. Through numerous funny ways to activate the storytelling habit, writers not only get chances to earn dollars, publishing deal, iTune Gift Card or other rewards, but also build up their audiences. Writers can even create their own contests.
Writer's Digest
www.writersdigest.com/writers-digest-competitions
Four competitions are currently available on this self-publishing site, including Self-Published eBook Awards, Popular Fiction Awards, Poetry Awards and Short Short Story Competition. Writers of fiction or non-fiction would discover target relevant to their own strong points and interest.
Re:Fiction
https://refiction.com/writing-contests
The site hosts a fiction contest in every month, coming with cash prize but no entry fee. There is no requirement for the length of stories. It could be a highly efficient way for productive writers to win some awards, which could be a fund for publication.
Reedsy
https://blog.reedsy.com/writing-contests/
The young London-based company launched a modern marketplace for indie writers and designers to publish their creative works. At this moment, it is running a Writing Prompts Inspired Short Story Contest, which meets its deadline on December 31st, 2017. Meanwhile, you can also use the searching engine of the site to tap into contests run by other publishing companies that match your own criteria and targets.
Poetry Space
www.poetryspace.co.uk/young-writers-space
This online poetry website based in Bristol, UK, offers the chance for young writers to submit their stories, poems, drawings and cartoons. It is not only a good way to encourage creation of young authors but also valuable opportunity for interaction between parents and children.
Hunger Mountain
http://hungermtn.org/contests/
The site hosts four annual contests online, including The Howard Frank Mosher Short Fiction Prize, The Hunger Mountain Creative Nonfiction Prize, The Ruth Stone Poetry Prize and The Katherine Paterson Prize for Young Adult and Children’s Writing. All contests open for submission from October 1st to March 1st in each year.
Ficfun
www.ficfun.com/novelCompetition/results
This young and energetic online fiction publisher is growing fast since its launch, which lately announced the awards and winners of its first FicFun Writing Contest. Among the respective 1st place winners of Fan Choice Awards in the genres of romance, teen fiction, vampire/werewolf, mystery/crime and sci-fction. Claiming Lord Thuran by Lisa Kumar, The Big Bang by Hans Jefferson Paglinawan, Poison Orchid by Shreya Chakraborty, Donsal Road by ​Bernadette San Agustin and Chasm Scar by Brittany Rush would surely inspire more interesting future novels from the authors. A small tip is that since it is relatedly young, writers would possibly encounter less competitors than other fully developed reading sites at this moment.
So all the above sound attractive enough for you to dig into your creation?

Winners Announced: FicFun’s First Ever Original Fiction Writing Contest Results

FicFun, an online community formed by literature enthusiasts and bookworms, just wrapped up its first ever Writing Contest. The online library’s jury panel announced the names of the 35 winning writers and reviewed original works of fiction of contestants from twenty-three countries, including the United States, Canada, Philippines, India and many more. The online reader’s community announced the 25 recipients of the Fan Choice Award, 10 winners for the Editor’s Choice Award, and 7 winners of the Reader’s Award. During the review process, a total of 4315 votes were counted, in addition to 412 reader’s comments.
FicFun emphasizes all contest winners to collect their rewards and claim their prizes by December 4^th, 2017. Contestants who won First Place in the Fan Choice Award are entitled to $500, while second place winners are eligible for $300, and third place holders for $200. For the complete list of FicFun’s winners, visit www.ficfun.com/novelCompetition/results .
Genres of the FicFun’s Writing Contest feature five genres: Romance Novels, Teen Fiction, Vampire/Werewolf, Mystery/Crime, and Sci-Fi/Fantasy. All winners, from first to fifth place, across all 5 categories, are also entitled the same amount of prize money as Fan Choice Award Winners, in the same order.
In addition to the Fan Choice Awards, the Editor’s Choice Awards honor aspiring writers with a cash prize of $100, along with $10 Amazon Gift Cards to active FicFun.com users who are vocal on the comment sections. “Many submitted stories were so heart-warming and gripping that both our editors and readers had a hard time in selecting winners,” said Matthew Liu,the company director of FicFun. “We want to thank all contestants for sending in their original works of fiction. They truly made our first contest a success.”
“FicFun is a growing community of independent authors of fiction, as well as passionate readers, so this contest was a great opportunity for us to connect with more talented writers from all over the world, and give them an audience, too” said Matthew.
FicFun will soon announce their second fiction writing contest, which according to Matthew, will be “grander, with bigger awards for winners.”
For more information about FicFun, visit their site at www.ficfun.com. To see the complete list of contest winners, go to www.ficfun.com/novelCompetition/results. Contact edit@ficfun.com for writing or other inquiries.