I submitted a #ShortStory to #NYCMidnight 3 months ago. It’s a whodunnit set in the UK. On Tuesday the judges decisions come out and I find out how I did.
Chances are the wraps will come off and I’ll finally be able to publish it.
www.nycmidnight.com/ssc
my microfiction has passed into the void or wherever submittable sends it. #100wordmicrofiction #microfictionchallenge100 #nycmidnight #writesky #writingcommunity
I haven't written much lately due to some stuff going on in life ... Hoping this #NYCMidnight #MicrofictionChallenge100 will help as a mini diversion though writing a fairy tale with potential world building aspects is especially challenging in 100 words 😱🤔
Good luck everyone else taking part 🍀🤞 💜❤️😎
another year, another 100-word microfiction contest. anyone else planning on checking their email at midnight tonight? #MicrofictionChallenge100 #nycmidnight #writingcontest #writingchallenge #writesky #writingcommunity
Submitted my story with just an hour to spare 😅 #nycmidnight #scarystorychallenge
I MADE IT through the second round of the NYC Midnight Scary Story Challenge 2025! Wish me luck!
More information about The Scary Story Challenge can be found here: www.nycmidnight.com/scary
#shortfiction #FlashFiction #horrorfiction #horror #NYCMidnight #scarystories
I got an honourable mention in the NYC Midnight Scary Story comp, feeling frightfully pleased. Fellow NYC-ers, how did you go?
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Interesting prompts for round 2 of the #NYCMidnight #MicrofictionChallenge250 #WritingCompetition 🤔🙃 I have 48 hours to deliver but need to get a shift on today as I'm out travelling tomorrow. 😐💜❤️
Good luck to everyone else taking part 🍀🤞
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Well that was a surprise ... I wouldn't say it was my finest work & I pushed the prompt boundaries a tad, but I'm through to round 2 of the #NYCMidnight #MicrofictionChallenge250 #WritingCompetition 🎉🎊😎
Good luck everyone 💜❤️🍀
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10th place: "When the Looting Starts" by Hannah Hopkinson
NYCM just released the rankings for the 1st round of the 2025 250-word flash fiction competition. Got 10th place in my group which means I am moving on to the second round. Lots of writing scheduled for this weekend! :D
#NYCMidnight #flashfiction #writingcontests
Sarah standing in front of a theatre flat of a tree. There’s an image of auditorium seating behind it.
My recent story for #NYCMidnight features a “Free Play”. I sort of went with a Shakespeare reference or two.
And wouldn’t you know I chanced upon this theatre flat of a tree.
It’s like the *exact* prop from that story.
#GreatMinds #NotDerivativeISwear
#BookSky 💙📚
Submitted!
I still don’t think there’s enough romance in my romance story, but it is what it is.
And considering this is the first thing I’ve written since January 2025, I’m pretty happy with what I got done.
#NYCMidnight #ShortStoryChallenge2026
Update:
First draft is finally finished and terrible.
Submission deadline is tomorrow night, so tomorrow is all about revisions and polish.
#NYCMidnight #ShortStoryChallenge
Update:
First draft still not finished. I was about halfway done when I realized I’d taken a wrong turn. The story wasn’t working.
Deleted all the way back to my first scene and am trying again.
#NYCMidnight #ShortStoryChallenge
Update:
Story is outlined.
First scene (~300 words) is written.
Hope to have most, if not all, of a first draft done by tomorrow night. 🤞
#NYCMidnight #ShortStoryChallenge
Looking for critique partners for @nycmidnight.bsky.social Short Story Round 1! Is that still a thing people do on Blue Sky or is it only in the forums and on Elon's app? #NYCMidnight #shortstorychallenge
Screenshot showing Group 134, Genre: Thriller, Subject: Status Symbol, Character: Stowaway
And so it begins. #NYCMidnight #ShortStoryChallenge
...and the same post on my #ko-fi page!
ko-fi.com/post/Art-and...
#microfiction #mywriting #writingcommunity #writersky #horror #flashfiction #shortstories #scarystory #NYCMIdnight
NYC Midnight Scary comp writers, how are you doing?
#NYCMidnight #amwriting
Results are in and... yeah...
Out of a group of 41 writers, 31 of us did not make it...
Well done to those that made it to the next round!
Onwards!
#ScartStoryChallenge #NYCMidnight
#Writer #WritingCompetition
#WriterSky #WritingCommunity
#ShortStory #FlashFiction
@nycmidnight.bsky.social
My story, "Dessication" made it through the first round of the NYC Midnight Scary Story Challenge 2025! Assignments for the second round drop this Friday at midnight.
Wish me luck!
www.nycmidnight.com/scary
#shortfiction #FlashFiction #horrorfiction #horror #NYCMidnight #scarystories
Top Stories by Group Group 6 prompts: Electricity / Questioning / An out-of-towner 6th place: "Spark of Control" by Laura Amey. SYNOPSIS - In a country where women are controlled by microchips in their brains, Penny searches a dock as her broken chip tries to reactivate. She finds a smugglers boat just in time to hand over her baby daughter before the chip is repaired.
This was my first time participating in a #NYCmidnight challenge, so I'm thrilled to have placed 6th in the first round. Bring on Round 2!!
Any NYC Midnight writers here doing the scary story challenge? How did we go? I got 9th place so happily am in the 2nd round.
#NYCMidnight #NYCMidnightScaryStory #writing
We actually have a feed for it - it's empty at the moment, but I think it populates based on the #nycmidnight tag (guess I'll find out soon ;) ) #scriptsky
As usual, I have stretched the boundaries of my prompts for the #NYCMidnight #MicrofictionChallenge250 #WritingCompetition but sometimes you just have to write the story that's calling out to be written 🤔 We will see if the judges like it 🤔😱💜❤️
#WritingCommunity #CreativeWriting #WritersAndEdtors
Sorted... and I managed to upload while sat on an aeroplane too!
#NYCMidnight #MicrofictionChallenge250
#WritingCompetition #Writer
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Well, this is fun... let's go travelling whilst in the middle of a writing competition, it'll be great! 🙃
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