The Open Novella Contest is back for a fourth edition!
13 weeks for 20K words minimum, ready for the challenge?
This chapter only includes brief information about Open Novella Contest IV and is purely for promotional purposes.
If you would like to know more regarding the prompts and submissions for the English version of ONC 2021, check out the OpenNovellaContest profile!
If you choose to participate a children's story we offer you the opportunity to be added to our special ONC 2021 reading list with your ongoing story. The children's fiction team will also try add a review of all children's stories reaching the longlist or even the shortlist of the contest.
To get featured in our reading list, please add the link to your ONC2021 story in the comments below this chapter.
Please consider that a story should qualify for children <10 to be considered children's fiction. While you may use the prompts for other stories, only those suitable for children will be featured by the profile Childrensfiction.
The following prompts were chosen especially for you:
7. When the siblings found a lost fairy in the garden shed, they decided to help her find the way home. They were in for an adventure. 5
8. Being the new kid in a new school is intimidating. That is until a new friend offers a hand to the secret treehouse right behind the schoolyard. And...is that a unicorn? 7
9. "Dragons are not real, but you're too young to understand," the child's older sibling insisted. But they knew better. After all, they were best friends with a dragonette. 4
10. The child hated the new, prescribed glasses, sure everyone would laugh and tease them. But when putting the despised glasses on for the first time, a magical surprise waited. 4
11. The child was afraid of the monster under the bed. Until the monster needed help. 16
12. When they begged their aunt for a bedtime story, they had no idea they would end up in a magical kingdom
What are you waiting for? Check out the rules in the official contest book, and start writing!
We can't wait for your amazing stories!
Your kidsfic team