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Inkitt's Writing Contest
Inspired by authors, informed by algorithms, and connected by over 3 million readers and writers worldwide, Inkitt is opening a new chapter of your writing!Inkitt’s Writing Contests regularly give authors the opportunity to share their books with readers around the world and showcase their talents.
Our Midsummer Mystery Writing Contest gives you the chance to win cash prizes, exclusive book badges, and exposure for your writing!
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The Hauntings
Little did I know what was to become of me that night. It was stealthily creeping upon me. I couldn't scream, I couldn't move. I changed, dear reader, and my ways changed me.
Prisoner of the Dead
Sequel to Prison of the Dead. Having escaped the zombie-infested Falling Rock Correctional Facility in Colorado, Inmate 110232 enters a larger, more terrifying world. The plague of undead flesh-ea...
The Hour of the Wolf
In the summer of 1992, Mina Chase walked out of a movie theater after being treated to a film by her best friend on her 18th birthday. A young woman entering a milestone of her life, Mina had much ...
Prison of the Dead
Life in the Falling Rock Correctional Facility has always been difficult for the inmates who are kept within its walls. For Inmate 110232, it's especially difficult when two of his more infamous ce...
MURDER AT TOWN MEETING
Race. Real estate. A long forgotten burial account. When several town officials and an endangered amphibian meet untimely ends at the hands of "America's purest form of democracy," four teens, two ...
Breaking Up
Who can she believe in? Everything she thought was good and right in her life seems to be a lie. Someone is after her and she doesn't know who to turn to for help. With her life upside down and a m...
He Sees Me
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The Blood Servant
For years, creatures have roamed the Earth. For years, they have walked alongside humans as equals. For years, they have lived together in peace until a rebellion occurred not so long ago. Humans w...
Imperfect Sides
This story is about two girls like always, one is good and the other is bad but here the good one couldn't be perfect as an angel and the bad one got luckily saved from turning into most evil. ...
The Night
It's Katie's birthday, and her friends find a mansion in the woods to have the birthday party. Little did they know how horribly the night would turn on them.
Dead of Winter
Can a dead woman’s memories solve a murder? Ten years ago, someone brutally murdered Amara’s twin sister, Nisha. No one ever found her killer. No one found any pertinent evidence at all. The loss ...
The Watchman
They sing lullabies in the dark, and with their melodies we find peace. Michael Graves is a Watchman, a person who hunts creatures that many perceive to be nothing more than folktales. When a chill...
Forbidden Dare
Who could know the forces at work in them? Who could fight something that burned them to bits in a need firing through them untamed? Now loosed, how could they hope to contain it again? Looking f...
About the contest
Inkitt's Writing Contest
Inspired by authors, informed by algorithms, and connected by over 3 million readers and writers worldwide, Inkitt is opening a new chapter of your writing!Inkitt’s Writing Contests regularly give authors the opportunity to share their books with readers around the world and showcase their talents.
Our Midsummer Mystery Writing Contest gives you the chance to win cash prizes, exclusive book badges, and exposure for your writing!
What you win
Monthly Cash Prizes
One grand prize winner, and two runners up will be selected.1st prize: $500, an exclusive badge for your book cover and an Inkitt social media feature!
2nd prize: $250, exclusive 2nd place book badge and Inkitt social media feature!
3rd prize: $100, exclusive 3rd place book badge and an Inkitt social media feature!
Judged by our algorithm, the author with the most reader engagement will be chosen as the winner at the end of the contest. So make sure to get plenty of readers, likes, comments and shares on your book, as this increases your chances of winning!
Contest Terms
- Cash prize winners are selected after the contest closes
- Winners are chosen judged on their reader engagement. This is a combination of likes, reads, reviews, and a variety of other factors.
- We collect data on your submission from the day you join.
- Contest is genre specific. Only horror, thriller, mystery, and other similar themes are eligible to win
- You may submit multiple entries using different stories
- The minimum word count per submission is 10,000 words
- Novels must be in English
- You must own the rights to the novel
- Previously or currently self-published books are accepted
- You retain all rights to your stories while posted on Inkitt
- Inkitt reserve the right to announce winners within 3 months of the end of each contest
