★ SUBMISSIONS OPEN AUGUST 1–20 ★ WINNERS PUBLISHED SEPTEMBER 1 ★ SEND US YOUR WORST ★ THIS IS ALL IN GOOD FUN ★
a contest for the story you'd never send anyone
the gist

"your worst story. the one you hate. the one you'd never send anyone. we want to see it — and if it's really bad, it might just win first place."

you're still a great writer. you just wrote a real piece of shit, and we'd like to laugh at it.

SUBMISSIONS

Aug 1 – Aug 20

WINNERS PUBLISHED

September 1

SEND YOUR SHIT TO

your judges
JUDGE

wigDmitriy Kogan

New York City

Writer and editor. Edits serious-lit and runs serious-lit press. His debut chapbook, Scotty Plays Guitar, is out this September.

JUDGE

wigMaximiliano Guzmán

Argentina

Author and editor of the Argentine magazine La Tuerca Andante. He just wants to have fun.

JUDGE

wigIryna Somkina

Kyiv

Best Small Fictions and Best of the Net nominee. Founding editor of Sunday Morning Magazine.

this is all in good fun

if it goes well, we'll do it again next year