storytwigs

Storytwigs features free monthly competitions and other low-pressure opportunities for writers

Our Story

Ever since my first year in college, I’ve wanted to find fun things to do with my stories. My career is almost entirely focused on new and unique forms of storytelling, namely interactive and nonlinear audio, video, and text stories. Still, when it comes to my personal projects, I’ve spent thousands of hours working on mostly unfinished pieces. I’ve scoured the web for low-pressure outlets and opportunities, but nothing has really stuck with me. I hope that storytwigs can be such an outlet for anyone who wants to share their writing with the world.

Like a book, or novel, or even a short story, a tree takes a long time to grow. Full-length works are important, but at storytwigs, we are focused on smaller pieces. Twigs. Snippets of stories—beautiful, albeit tiny. We hope that by offering consistent competitions and events that feature these manageable storytwigs, we can help encourage writers to keep writing and give them reachable goals. Whether you’re a full-time writer who just wants a fun break, or someone with a wildly busy life who can hardly find enough time to write more than a few good lines, we hope you’ll join our community and find some time to submit some storytwigs of your own.

Here is what we are NOW:

• A free monthly micro-fiction competition

  • We supply a prompt, you supply a storytwig up to 100 words long

    • Cash prizes for winning entries ($100 for 1st place, $25 for 2nd, $20 for 3rd, $15 for 4th, $10 for 5th)

• An email list with infrequent emails about updates at storytwigs

Here is what I hope it will become:

• A community of writers with our own fully-fledged forums and events for encouraging and learning from each other

• A platform for weekly competitions focused on different kinds and sizes of storytwigs (nonfiction, fiction, genre-fiction, special prompts, special prizes, etc)

• A community of judges and writing professionals who share knowledge with entrants and supply feedback

• Please consider contributing to our prize pool to help support the competition