Uncharted Cinematic Short Story Award
April 14 – June 16, 2024
Lights, Camera, Action! This year, we want your most cinematic stories! We want those stories that we can clearly visualize, that we feel like we’re there in the moment, that activates all of our senses. This Award is for all of our genres: SF/F, Thriller/Mystery (Horror), YA, and Historical Fiction. We’re excited to offer the winner of this prize $2,000 and publication, while the second- and third-place winners will receive publication and $300 and $200, respectively. Guest judge Matt Bell.
Voyage Through the Looking Glass Challenge
May 10 – May 20, 2024
We’re looking for young adult fiction that reinvents reality. Whether your work takes us all the way to another world or simply holds a warped mirror up to the ordinary, we want to see writing that shapes existence into something new, something we’ve never seen before. Send us your mind-bending work that twists the fabric of reality into a new shape!
Refractions: Genre Flash Fiction Contest
July 01 – July 31, 2024
It’s time to write short at Uncharted Magazine! We want your stories of 1,500 words or less in all of our genres! So sharpen up those pens and flex those fingers. We’re excited to offer the winner of this prize $1,000 and publication, while the second- and third-place winners will receive publication and $300 and $200, respectively.