Ankara Circle/ How To Submit (Prize: $1000)

Ankara Circle is a team with an obsession for reading and writing exciting stories where magical things happen. They started Ankara in order to share amazing stories from all over the world.

Ankara Circle has opened its window for the 2022 Competition; Tales by Moonlight.

Tales By Moonlight is a novella writing competition. The theme of this contest’s edition is fiction and magic. (Fantasy, Speculative Fiction).

The competition is for Novellas. A novella is a work of prose whose length is shorter than most novels but longer than most short stories.

Release your imagination and let your creative juices run free!

All stories submitted for the competition must be in the genre of fantasy.
Stories must be written in the theme of Magic.
Submissions must have approximately 15,000 – 20,000 word length and be separated into chapters of reasonable length.
Chapter lengths should be 3,000 – 5,000 words. Submissions should be between 4-7 chapters long.
Entries can be submitted through Ankara Editor, the official writing platform. Access to the site will be given from May 15th.
The winner will be determined by audience voting. The submission with the most votes at the end of the contest period will win the grand prize.
Plagiarized work will not be accepted.
Submissions will be accepted from
May 15th until the end of the competition. The competition will end on August 15th.
The voting polls will open July 15th. Approved entries will be hosted on the competition site and available for public voting. We encourage contestants to promote their submissions and increase their chances of winning the cash prize.
As long as the story is your original work and adheres to the competition rules and writing theme, it can be submitted. It does not matter if it has been submitted for other competitions.

The grand prize is $1000 cash.

Good Luck!