Congrats to all* the NQW Prize fam who made it through to R2 of the @nycmidnight microfiction 250!
Go team!
Go team!
February 5, 2026 at 4:49 AM
Congrats to all* the NQW Prize fam who made it through to R2 of the @nycmidnight microfiction 250!
Go team!
Go team!
Working on nycmidnight flash fiction round 2. Topics - Ghost story, stateroom, keyboard.
#writing #author #flashfiction #nycmidnight
#writing #author #flashfiction #nycmidnight
July 29, 2023 at 4:09 PM
Working on nycmidnight flash fiction round 2. Topics - Ghost story, stateroom, keyboard.
#writing #author #flashfiction #nycmidnight
#writing #author #flashfiction #nycmidnight
100 word ghost story submitted to #nycmidnight #microfictionchallenge100 - fun genre!
March 23, 2025 at 2:57 AM
100 word ghost story submitted to #nycmidnight #microfictionchallenge100 - fun genre!
March 22, 2025 at 8:23 PM
I'm a happy Goblin! A 3rd place for my story and through to round 2 🎉
#NYCMIDNIGHT #WritingCompetition is
#NYCMIDNIGHT #WritingCompetition is
October 2, 2025 at 8:18 AM
I'm a happy Goblin! A 3rd place for my story and through to round 2 🎉
#NYCMIDNIGHT #WritingCompetition is
#NYCMIDNIGHT #WritingCompetition is
Without further prompting (👀) I decided to go for it. The least I'll get is another story I can work with.
Join me in the @nycmidnight.bsky.social Flash Fiction Challenge on May 30th!
nycmidnight.com/ffc
#Writer #WriterSky #WritingCommunity
#WritingCompetition #FlashFiction
#NYCMidnight
Join me in the @nycmidnight.bsky.social Flash Fiction Challenge on May 30th!
nycmidnight.com/ffc
#Writer #WriterSky #WritingCommunity
#WritingCompetition #FlashFiction
#NYCMidnight
April 1, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Without further prompting (👀) I decided to go for it. The least I'll get is another story I can work with.
Join me in the @nycmidnight.bsky.social Flash Fiction Challenge on May 30th!
nycmidnight.com/ffc
#Writer #WriterSky #WritingCommunity
#WritingCompetition #FlashFiction
#NYCMidnight
Join me in the @nycmidnight.bsky.social Flash Fiction Challenge on May 30th!
nycmidnight.com/ffc
#Writer #WriterSky #WritingCommunity
#WritingCompetition #FlashFiction
#NYCMidnight
August 17, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Please tell me I’m not the only one still warming up to their NYCMidnight prompts. 😆
#screenwritingchallenge
#screenwritingchallenge
February 23, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Please tell me I’m not the only one still warming up to their NYCMidnight prompts. 😆
#screenwritingchallenge
#screenwritingchallenge
Just submitted my second round short story in the #nycmidnight #shortstorychallenge2025. A new genre for me!
The 2nd Round of the Short Story Challenge 2025 is underway! View the new genre/subject/character assignments and a countdown to the deadline at nycmidnight.co/4iUA9Wz. Best of luck to the 1,050 participating writers with their 2,000-word stories over the next three days!
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April 6, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Just submitted my second round short story in the #nycmidnight #shortstorychallenge2025. A new genre for me!
Join me in the @nycmidnight.bsky.social Short Story Challenge 2027 on January 22nd! Learn more at nycmidnight.com/ssc
The Short Story Challenge — nycmidnight
The Short Story Challenge is an annual creative writing competition that challenges writers around the world to create short stories based on genre, subject, and character assignments in as little as ...
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October 4, 2026 at 7:34 PM
Join me in the @nycmidnight.bsky.social Short Story Challenge 2027 on January 22nd! Learn more at nycmidnight.com/ssc
#flash spy story uploaded to the NYCMidnight competition! I love spy stories so this was fun!
Good luck to everyone else writing this weekend!
Good luck to everyone else writing this weekend!
July 31, 2023 at 3:27 AM
#flash spy story uploaded to the NYCMidnight competition! I love spy stories so this was fun!
Good luck to everyone else writing this weekend!
Good luck to everyone else writing this weekend!
My first time making the finals of an @nycmidnight challenge & I got HM4 (14th). The competition began in November 2025 with 3200+ competitors. I wrote a horror story in round 1, an action story in round 2, and a drama in round 3. Excited is an understatement 🥳 #nycmidnight #microfictionchallenge250
May 21, 2026 at 2:20 AM
My first time making the finals of an @nycmidnight challenge & I got HM4 (14th). The competition began in November 2025 with 3200+ competitors. I wrote a horror story in round 1, an action story in round 2, and a drama in round 3. Excited is an understatement 🥳 #nycmidnight #microfictionchallenge250
Congratulations to two-time Not Quite Write Prize for Flash Fiction shortlister @chloepaige.bsky.social who has just WON the @nycmidnight 500-word fiction challenge!
This woman is unstoppable 🤩
This woman is unstoppable 🤩
The winners of the 500-word Fiction Challenge 2025 have been announced at www.nycmidnight.com/500fc/2025-f...! Congratulations to Chloe Paige (Australia) for winning the competition with her final round story, "Roo Sprayers." Thanks to everyone who participated for submitting so many great stories!
Final Round Results 2025 — nycmidnight
The Final Round results from the 500-word Fiction Challenge 2025! This page contains the top 10 stories and honorable mentions from the final round of the competition.
www.nycmidnight.com
January 9, 2026 at 10:22 AM
Congratulations to two-time Not Quite Write Prize for Flash Fiction shortlister @chloepaige.bsky.social who has just WON the @nycmidnight 500-word fiction challenge!
This woman is unstoppable 🤩
This woman is unstoppable 🤩
Delighted to receive an honourable mention ...
#Writer #WritingCompetion
#WriterSky #WritingCommunity
#ShortStory #FlashFiction
#NYCMidnight
#FlashFictionCallenge2025
#Writer #WritingCompetion
#WriterSky #WritingCommunity
#ShortStory #FlashFiction
#NYCMidnight
#FlashFictionCallenge2025
July 31, 2025 at 6:24 AM
Delighted to receive an honourable mention ...
#Writer #WritingCompetion
#WriterSky #WritingCommunity
#ShortStory #FlashFiction
#NYCMidnight
#FlashFictionCallenge2025
#Writer #WritingCompetion
#WriterSky #WritingCommunity
#ShortStory #FlashFiction
#NYCMidnight
#FlashFictionCallenge2025
love a distraction.
working on a 100-word microfiction challenge through nyc midnight. looking forward to it, especially the feedback.
ever done a writing competition?
#nycmidnight #MicroFictionChallenge100 #amwriting #aspiringauthor #booksky #writesky #writing
working on a 100-word microfiction challenge through nyc midnight. looking forward to it, especially the feedback.
ever done a writing competition?
#nycmidnight #MicroFictionChallenge100 #amwriting #aspiringauthor #booksky #writesky #writing
March 22, 2025 at 12:08 PM
love a distraction.
working on a 100-word microfiction challenge through nyc midnight. looking forward to it, especially the feedback.
ever done a writing competition?
#nycmidnight #MicroFictionChallenge100 #amwriting #aspiringauthor #booksky #writesky #writing
working on a 100-word microfiction challenge through nyc midnight. looking forward to it, especially the feedback.
ever done a writing competition?
#nycmidnight #MicroFictionChallenge100 #amwriting #aspiringauthor #booksky #writesky #writing
Update:
First draft is finally finished and terrible.
Submission deadline is tomorrow night, so tomorrow is all about revisions and polish.
#NYCMidnight #ShortStoryChallenge
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
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
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
January 31, 2026 at 1:31 AM
Update:
First draft is finally finished and terrible.
Submission deadline is tomorrow night, so tomorrow is all about revisions and polish.
#NYCMidnight #ShortStoryChallenge
First draft is finally finished and terrible.
Submission deadline is tomorrow night, so tomorrow is all about revisions and polish.
#NYCMidnight #ShortStoryChallenge
Sorted... and I managed to upload while sat on an aeroplane too!
#NYCMidnight #MicrofictionChallenge250
#WritingCompetition #Writer
@nycmidnight.bsky.social
#NYCMidnight #MicrofictionChallenge250
#WritingCompetition #Writer
@nycmidnight.bsky.social
December 7, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Sorted... and I managed to upload while sat on an aeroplane too!
#NYCMidnight #MicrofictionChallenge250
#WritingCompetition #Writer
@nycmidnight.bsky.social
#NYCMidnight #MicrofictionChallenge250
#WritingCompetition #Writer
@nycmidnight.bsky.social
I'm taking part in the #NYCMidnight #ScaryStoryCompetition in a fortnight so I'm getting back into writing with another #MicrofictionMonday post!
#writingcommunity #writingsky #shortfiction #shortstories #horrorstories
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#writingcommunity #writingsky #shortfiction #shortstories #horrorstories
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CSI: Moorland
“I think what we have here—” Kevin slid his sunglasses on— “is a murder.” Lucy rolled her eyes. “Did you really call me over here just to do that?” Kevin grinned…
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October 5, 2026 at 9:23 PM
I'm taking part in the #NYCMidnight #ScaryStoryCompetition in a fortnight so I'm getting back into writing with another #MicrofictionMonday post!
#writingcommunity #writingsky #shortfiction #shortstories #horrorstories
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#writingcommunity #writingsky #shortfiction #shortstories #horrorstories
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Who's ready for The 100-word challenge? My first at nycmidnight 👀 just over 13 hours to go!
#NYCM #nycmidnight #100-word #microfiction
#NYCM #nycmidnight #100-word #microfiction
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ALT: a cartoon rabbit with the words i waiting intensifies below it
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March 21, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Who's ready for The 100-word challenge? My first at nycmidnight 👀 just over 13 hours to go!
#NYCM #nycmidnight #100-word #microfiction
#NYCM #nycmidnight #100-word #microfiction
So 2025 is set to be one of the best years of my life. I’m utterly blown away to have my story chosen for first place. Amazed and humbled to be among the top writers in this contest. Thank you @nycmidnight.bsky.social and congratulations to everyone! #nycmidnight #shortstory
We finally have a winner of the Short Story Challenge 2025! Congratulations to D.R. Forge (New York, USA) for taking the grand prize with their story, "When Dragons Do Laundry." Check out the full list of 2025 winners at nycmidnight.co/4gfpghq. Thanks to all who participated!
Final Round Results 2025 — nycmidnight
The Final Round results of the Short Story Challenge 2025! This page contains the top 10 stories and honorable mentions from the fourth and final round of the competition.
nycmidnight.co
September 11, 2025 at 1:30 PM
So 2025 is set to be one of the best years of my life. I’m utterly blown away to have my story chosen for first place. Amazed and humbled to be among the top writers in this contest. Thank you @nycmidnight.bsky.social and congratulations to everyone! #nycmidnight #shortstory
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
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
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
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
February 1, 2026 at 1:26 AM
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
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
Just managed time to write a 250-word story for NYC Midnight yesterday.
Just submitting was my total win this time around.
#writing #nycmidnight
Just submitting was my total win this time around.
#writing #nycmidnight
December 11, 2023 at 8:45 PM
Just managed time to write a 250-word story for NYC Midnight yesterday.
Just submitting was my total win this time around.
#writing #nycmidnight
Just submitting was my total win this time around.
#writing #nycmidnight
Join me in the @nycmidnight.bsky.social Scary Story Challenge on October 16th! Learn more at nycmidnight.com/scary
Scary Story Challenge — nycmidnight
The Scary Story Challenge is a creative writing competition that challenges writers worldwide to create scary short stories based on assigned prompts in 48 hours.
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October 4, 2026 at 11:23 PM
Join me in the @nycmidnight.bsky.social Scary Story Challenge on October 16th! Learn more at nycmidnight.com/scary
May EL submitted? ✅ NYCMidnight Flash submitted? ✅ TL;DR Word Herd? I'm workin' on it, sheesh. 💅
June 1, 2025 at 10:49 PM
May EL submitted? ✅ NYCMidnight Flash submitted? ✅ TL;DR Word Herd? I'm workin' on it, sheesh. 💅