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Reality TV Romance Writing Contest 2025 – Win $500 & Get Published

Ready to turn your love for storytelling into a career-changing moment? Join Inkitt’s Reality TV Romance Writing Contest 2025 — a free online writing contest where you can win up to $500, a Galatea publishing deal, and a chance to see your book reviewed for a CandyJar movie adaptation.

📅 Submission Deadline:

About the Contest

Inkitt’s writing contests 2025 are designed to help authors like you get discovered. This creative writing competition focuses on the world of reality television, where romance, secrets, and hidden agendas collide.

Contest Prompt: Behind the Cameras – Reality TV Romance

Love, lies, and hidden agendas, where real feelings complicate everything. Can love survive when the cameras stop rolling?

Your story could explore scenarios like:

  • 📺 A rival network’s spy infiltrating a reality competition, only to fall for their main target.
  • 🎬 The villa’s most popular contestant hiding the fact that they’re the executive producer’s child.
  • ❤️ Two contestants faking a relationship for the cameras — until real feelings develop for a new arrival.

Pro Tip: To win this romance writing contest, make your story binge-worthy

  • Shocking reveals and explosive confrontations
  • Strategic alliances crumbling under real emotion
  • Intimate confessional moments and stolen glances
  • Morally grey characters torn between love and winning

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