Owl Canyon Hackathon Contest is Currently Open/ How to Apply (Prize: $3500)
Owl Canyon Hackathon Contest is now open! Deadline is September 2nd, 2023!
Owl Canyon Press Hackathon Contest provides paragraphs #1 and paragraphs #50A and #50B for the alternative endings (the image below shows this), and the writer team creates the other 48 paragraphs (i.e., paragraphs 2-49) to complete the story.
Therefore, Writing teams (2 authors per team) are invited to create and submit a pair of short stories consisting of 50 paragraphs. The contest provides the 1st paragraph and two alternate 50th paragraphs with writing team co-authors taking turns writing a common/shared story from paragraphs 2 through 49 (thus the tag-team handle) and then spinning off two versions using the two alternative 50th paragraphs.
Eligibility for Owl Canyon Hackathon Contest
- Anyone can submit a story (as long as they’re part of a two-writer team), including outside the USA, but the stories must be in English
- Entry is free
Submission Guidelines
- 50 Paragraphs total – the opening paragraph and 2 alternate ending paragraphs are provided on the Submittable entry form
- No maximum word count, but each paragraph needs to be at least 50 words; however, feel free to use as many words as you need to tell the story
- Dialogue is fine as long as it’s in a paragraph of at least 50 words
- Author teams retain all rights to their short stories
- Author teams agree to permit Owl Canyon Press to publish their stories in an Anthology
- Failure to comply with any contest guidelines may result in disqualification
- Deadline is September 2nd, 2023.
- Winners will be notified in December 2023.
- Apply to the submittable!
Prize
- First prize is $2000,
- 2nd prize is $1000,
- 3rd prize is $500
- More so, the winning short stories would be published in a short story anthology, as well as an invitation to give a public reading at Inkberry Books in Niwot, CO. The twenty-four (24) Finalists will also have their short stories included in this anthology.
