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• Poems

  • Including written and spoken word

  • Can be submitted in written form and/or as an .MP4 file. 

• Letters 

  • Can be fiction or nonfiction

• Diary Entries 

  • Can be fiction or nonfiction

• Original Novel or Novella Excerpts 

  • Up to 5,000 words 

  • Including those still in progress/unpublished 

• Short Stories

  • ​A story with a fully developed theme but significantly shorter and less elaborate than a novel (Definitions from Oxford Languages).

    • 1,000 - 5,000 words

    • Can be fiction or nonfiction

• Flash Fiction

  • ​A fictional work of extreme brevity that still offers character and plot development. Identified varieties, many of them defined by word count, include the six-word story; the 280-character story (also known as "twitterature"); the "dribble" (also known as the "minisaga," 50 words); the "drabble" (also known as "microfiction," 100 words); "sudden fiction" (750 words); flash fiction (1,000 words); and "micro-story" (Wikipedia). 

    • 500 words or less

    • Fiction 

• Narratives 

  • A spoken or written account of connected events; a story (Definitions from Oxford Languages). The purpose of narrative writing is to tell a story, whether that story is real or imaginary. Pieces in a narrative style will have characters, and through the narrative, the reader learns what happens to them. Narrative writing can also include dialogue (Grammarly).

    • Can be fiction or nonfiction 

• Reflective Pieces

  • Writers use reflective writing to analyze and examine an event, memory, or observation. In reflective writing, the writer reflects on the meaning and impact of the occasion (Your Dictionary).

    • Can be fiction or nonfiction

• Personal Pieces

  • A short work of autobiographical nonfiction characterized by a sense of intimacy and a conversational manner (Thought Co.). 

    • Nonfiction

• Descriptive Essays

  • The aim of descriptive writing is to help the reader visualize, in detail, a character, event, place, or all of these things at once. The author might describe the scene in terms of all five senses (Grammarly). 

    • Can be fiction or nonfiction

• Plays 

  • Creative writing

• Movie and television scripts or screenplays 

  • Creative writing

• Songs 

  • Including written or .MP3 file submissions

  • Creative writing

• Memoirs

  • ​A historical account or biography written from personal knowledge or special sources (Definitions from Oxford Languages).

    • Nonfiction or creative writing

• Literally any type of writing, except academic essays