Deadline: January 30th, 2025
Payment: $1 per story accepted
Theme: 100 word story about the Sun

Submissions for the 100 Word Project from Manawaker Studio are open January thru May and July thru November.

The 100 Word Project is an ongoing project focused on 100 word stories which will be published as a monthly, themed online journal and in a yearly print anthology. Each month (except for June and December) will bring a new prompt, and on the last weekday of the month nine of the submitted drabbles for that prompt will be posted in the public-facing section of the Manawaker Patreon alongside one drabble from Manawaker EiC, CB Droege. At the end of the year, the ten stories from each of the ten prompts will be assembled into the next volume of the 100 x 100 series. The project is curated and edited by CB Droege. 100 x 100 is published by Manawaker Studio as part of their regular line of anthologies.

Current prompt

The Prompt for January 2025  is ‘Sun‘.

The stories

The only restrictions are that the stories are 100 words long (granting small leeway for different methods of counting, and not including the title (you don’t have to have a title, but we do like them)), and previously unpublished. The idea is that each contributor is writing a brand new story for each prompt as they are announced, but if you happen to have an unpublished drabble that already fits the theme, that works too. There are no genre requirements, but please keep content family friendly (No gore, no explicit sex, use profanity sparingly. General guideline: Would you feel uncomfortabel reading the story to a group that includes at least one 12 year old child? If so, maybe it’s not right for us).

If your work is accepted, you will grant Manawaker Studio the right to publish the work non-exclusively (we will ask nicely for exclusivity for one year). The work or parts of it may also be used for promotional purposes in print or online.

Original creators will retain all other copyrights.

If you’d like to see how it all will fit together, take a look at the previous volumes here.

Note that because the goal of the project is to currate, not just a bunch of drabbles, but a community of regular drabble contributors, some preference will be given to submissions from previous contributors.

Compensation

Compensation for inclusion in the project will be a token payment of 1$/story, and an electronic copy of the 100 x 100 volume it appears in. Payments will be made in December for the previous year’s stories (Since we are expecting, and encouraging, repeat contributors, this will save a few paypal transactions). Contributors may also choose to instead have Manawaker donate their payment to Manawaker’s favored charity, Child’s Play, which provides games to children’s hosptals

Contributors may also order the physical book at a discounted price, so that they may resell it at signings, readings, and shows without having to bump the cost above the MSRP.

In order to allow submissions right up to the wire, we wont be sending out contracts with acceptance letters. If you submit, you are assumed already to have agreed to the conditions of the contract, which is here. Please read it before submitting.

How to Submit

The deadline for each prompt is the penultimate weekday of the month it applies to.

Please no simultanious submissions on this project. The turn around is just too short.

Only submit one drabble per prompt.

We prefer text pasted in the email, but will also accept files, as long as they open in MS Office.

All submissions should be sent to [email protected] with ‘100 x 100 Submission’, your last name, and the prompt in the subject line. No need for a cover letter, but please include:

• Your byline
• a very short (max 12 words) bio to appear with the drabble in the Patreon post and again in the back of 100 x 100.

Acceptance notes will be sent out on the final weekday of each month, just before the stories are posted. Rejection notes will not be sent. If you don’t recieve an acceptance on publication day, and your story does not appear in the post with the others, then you can assume your piece didn’t make the cut.

Any questions about the project or these guidelines (or any queries after submissions) should be sent to [email protected]

Via: Manawaker.