The story of the week for March 31 to April 4…

Cincinn by Piper Pugh

The story of the week for March 24 to 28 is…

Rock Pool by Lynn White

The story of the week for March 17 to 21 is…

Strangers by Li Ruan

The story of the week for March 10 to 14 is…

The Chanterelle Hunters by Jenny Mattern
and
Images of You by Gabe Bonney

The story of the week for March 3 to 7 is…

The Little Hours by Alexandra Keister

Beginning in April 2025, there will no longer be a $10 Canadian prize for the story of the month.

I pay out the prizes via PayPal, and the flat rate fees per transaction have been increasing over time. At this point, it costs me almost $15 each month to send the $10 prize. It is not a question of whether I can “afford” to pay out those prizes; it’s more that I can’t justify paying a 50% fee  to a big corporation in order to get that prize into the authors’ hands. As a result, I have made the decision to remove that prizing.

I will still provide the Story of the Year with the same $50 Canadian prize.

My apologies to future monthly winners. I know how special it is for a writer to receive payment for their work.

The Story of the Month is chosen from the Story of the Week winners announced from the past month.

The finalists for February were:

The Smile by Clive Oseman
The Human Legacy by Millie Sun
Still Life by Paul D’Arcy
How to Move Your Mother To Assisted Living by Jennifer L. Freed

The winner of the February 2025 Story of the Month, and the $10 prize, is…

Still Life

The story of the week for February 24 to 28 is…

The Gift a Medical Power of Attorney Bestows Upon You by Sharon Gerger
and
Whispers of the Woods by Michael Samuel

The story of the week for February 17 to 21 is…

How to Move Your Mother to Assisted Living by Jennifer L. Freed

The Story of the Month is chosen from the Story of the Week winners announced from the past month.

The finalists for January were:

Shadowing by Sam Hall
Morning by Amanda LaMantia
Shivering to Death by Bob Thurber
Autonomy by Jenny Mattern
Duplicity by Fiona H. Evans

The winner of the January 2025 Story of the Month, and the $10 prize, is…

Duplicity