Entry Fee: FREE
Deadline: February 28, 2011
Guidelines: Creative Writers’ Circle
Creative Writers’ Circle is devoted to offering free writing contests. The current contest is sponsored by Serenity Sales. They’re offering a $60 gift certificate to the winner, and $35 gift certificate for second place and a $25 gift certificate for third place.
Using the prompt provided at the end of this post, write a story of 3,500 words or less. Entries must be previously unpublished, original works of the entrant. Clean writing is the goal here, in more ways than one. No profanity or explicit sexual content will be considered for a winning entry.
Writing Contest Prompt
Silver moonlight spilled across the wilderness, shining like a searchlight on snow-dusted mountain peaks and filling the valleys like floodwater. Ara stood in the shadow of a tall oak, sheltered from the unusual nighttime brightness. Traveling in the revealing moonlight didn’t feel safe, but neither did the woods. Those closely clustered trees were older than her grandparents and could hide too many things beneath their dense canopy – not so much as a single drop of moonlight touched the forest floor. Behind Ara, her mare nickered. She felt the animal’s breath on her shoulder, followed by a soft nudge. She didn’t want to stand still any longer. Well, neither did Ara. She swung into the saddle, clutching a familiar strand of blue beads that had been mined out of the very mountains she faced. She heeled her mare forward and wondered for what must have been the hundredth time where Jon was now.
