Monthly Contest Archive

DVR's Art & Literary Magazine present Our Next Contest: Love WHAT IS LOVE? Love is a feeling for a thing or person, and a very popular topic for art in all its forms. There are many different topics on love: Platonic love Romantic love Family love One-sided love Toxic love True love vs. First love Lessons learned from love Heartbreak Self love Dwindling l...

This month's prompt is borrowed from Young Writers' Twisted Tales Contest! All submissions for this contest will also be sent to Young Writers! Two chances to win!! Watch the video below for a brief intro: What is a Mini Saga? A mini saga is a complete story told in just 100 words. Who are the Villains? Select the subject of your saga from any number of villain...

“Celebrate endings – for they preceded new beginnings.”  Johnathan Lockwood Huie  As the school year comes to an end, many find themselves seeking closure and attempting to reconcile past and present. Following a year as uncertain as the last, it's necessary for us all to make this effort, and begin to shift our perspective from looking back to looking forward.  Traditionally serving as...

Considering COVID:  Remembrance, Reflection, & Recovery   “What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson   On March 13, 2020, we collected our belongings from our classrooms and lockers to go home, not knowing when we would return, and with no concept of where we would be one year later. It has been a strugg...

New Year, New Beginnings! Let's be bold and meet 2021 by celebrating Joy! Prompt: We are accepting all submissions on the theme of Joy.  What brings you joy? How do you express joy? How do you find it? Is it difficult or simple? What does joy look like, feel like, sound like, etc? What can we do to share joy? Stories, true or fictional, about joyful moments, stories about sad...

Kicking it off  -- December 2020 For our first monthly contest, and to wrap up the year that was 2020, our prompt borrows an idea from a recent The New York Times contest: a six word memoir. This is a VERY short form of creative writing made famous by publisher Larry Smith. There is an apocryphal legend that, supposedly, "came from a ten-dollar bet Hemingway made at a lunch with some other writers that he could write a novel in six words. After penning the famous line on a napkin, he passed it around th...