You need to be 13 or older; that is the only requirement. Your name never reaches the reader, so nobody is judging you, only the story.

Stories must be 100 to 3,000 words. Any genre, any language.

Submit a story in any language, your story is read in the language you wrote it in and it is never translated, against the same five criteria as everything else, and if you add the written reading, that comes back in your language too.

Stories written by AI or copied are disqualified the moment it is found, in any round, and the entry fee is not refunded. This applies to poems and stories alike. Every story here is read on the understanding that a person wrote it; that is the only reason a score means anything.

Receive score out of 100, split across five criteria (creativity, emotion, structure, language, impact), and a certificate in your name with a link anyone can verify. If your story places in the top three, a cash prize and a winner's certificate as well.