The Bouncin’ and Behavin’ Spring Writing Competition 2023

Now Open!

Welcome

I am delighted to share details of the first-ever Bouncin’ and Behavin’ writing competition.

We are keeping things simple and running this as a kind of test run to see how much interest is out there and what kind of submissions we receive. In future, we may accept specific entries for Japanese poetry or horror stories, for example.

There are three types of submission. These are snippets, short stories, and poems.

Snippets (600 words max.)

You will have to be sharp, snappy and engaging if you want to produce a winning snippet. Think of this as a trailer. You have 600 words (and not a single word more) to impress our judges and leave them hungry for more.

Snippets do not have to contain a beginning, middle, and end. They don’t have to be complete stories. They don’t even have to be complete scenes. If you want to throw the reader into the action from the first sentence, go right ahead.

Like, for example:

“Coffee spurted out of Bill’s mouth like a crazy cloud of dark brown sneeze gunk. What the hell had he just heard? ‘You did what?’ he managed to splutter, oblivious to the mess he’d made of his…