The Chattanooga Writers’ Guild seeks submissions of Fiction with the theme of Forgotten Places. Writers are invited to interpret the theme as loosely or closely as they wish. Deadline to submit up to 3 works is November 30, 2025, with a 1,500 word limit per work. Check out the full submission guidelines HERE.
Alexandria Kelly, a previous fiction winner and CWG Secretary, will judge this month’s submissions. Winners will be announced in December.
This contest is available to members only. Once logged into your account, the submission form can be found HERE. If you need help logging in, please contact tech-support@chattanoogawritersguild.org.
Please Note: As many are now aware, we’ve been experiencing a technical issue with our submission form, wherein members are receiving an error message upon submission, when in fact CWG has actually received the submission. At the start of November, we will be running a hard reset on the plug-in causing the issue, as our latest troubleshooting attempt, but in the process this may result in our submission page looking or acting a little differently than before. So, if you receive any error messages or have any issues whatsoever while submitting, please do not hesitate to email us at contests@chattanoogawritersguild.org to get confirmation whether your submission was received. Thank you for your patience, and we deeply apologize for any inconvenience.
Our Monthly Contests open on the 1st of each month and close on the last day, with one winner and one runner-up announced the following month. The first-place winner receives $50. The work of the winner and runner-up will be submitted for publication in The Pulse and considered for publication in our anthology. Writers included in the anthology will receive one free copy, available the following year. Monthly Contests are available to current members of the Chattanooga Writers’ Guild only and are free to enter. To become a member, click HERE
The Monthly Contests rotate through a pattern of Poetry, Fiction, and Creative Nonfiction throughout the year, with a new theme each month. Go to the 2025 Monthly Contest Series page to view the genre and theme for each month. Next up (December): Creative Non-Fiction with the theme: Maps.
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