If you're looking for a short story contest with no entry free and quite good pay, try On the Premises.
As indicated by the title, this e-zine always has themes. The current contest, running until March 6, is "More Than One."
"For this contest, write a creative, compelling, well-crafted story between 1,000 and 5,000 words in which one or more characters face this problem: there is more than one of something that there should absolutely, positively be only one of."
Sounds fun!
Guidelines: https://onthepremises.com/
They also have mini contests between regular contests. The mini contests require VERY short prose, and the themes are often quite interesting. For example, in the fall I entered one about purposely bad world-building. The results were quite fun. You can read them here (including my winning entry): https://onthepremises.com/minis/mini_43/
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3 comments:
Melinda,
Thank you for this interesting article and the links. To be honest I have never been a reader of literary magazines and I don't enter contests--but your article got me interested enough to think about it. Well-done.
Terry
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Melissa, thanks for the tip on this writing contest. I've entered book contests, but never a short story.
Thank you Melinda! I'm grateful to know about this e-zine (I bookmarked it).
It's inspiring. Maybe this is the way for me to enter contest like Carolyn has been encouraging.
Congrats on your win and thanks for sharing!
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