SUBMISSIONS ARE CLOSED. Thank you to all those who participated.

It’s that time of year! The holiday season is in full swing. NaNoWriMo is underway. Us writers are writing and shopping and cleaning and just trying to stay afloat and TLF is accepting submissions for our short story contest!

With the holidays around the corner, many are thinking about loved ones—those they’ve lost and those they’ve managed to hang onto. It’s the time of year when no one wants to be alone. It’s the time when trespasses are forgiven and bonds are made tighter between friends and family. That’s why our theme for this contest is Romance.

Tell us your best romantic story between 2,000 and 5,000 words. It can be heartbreaking or uplifting, from the past or in the future, or even a little bit of everything, as long as it falls into the Romantic genre.

Entry fee: $4

Deadline: Dec 7, 2014

Prize: $20 and your story featured on our website and promoted to all of our followers on Twitter and via email.

Be sure to double check and triple check your entry as once it is submitted you cannot make corrections. Please send as word attachment or .RTF only.

All entries must be original. You must own all copyrights to the submitted work. Previously published works are accepted as long as you are allowed to reproduce it elsewhere. Limit two entries per author. Entry fee of $4 must be paid via PayPal for each entry. The winner will be notified via email by December 14^th 2014 and payment of award will be issued via PayPal within 48 hours of winner notification.

Send your submission to: TLF(at)trueleefiction.com with subject: (Romance Contest – Title – Author Name) after submitting your entry fee via PayPal.

By submitting to this contest: the winner, and only the winner, gives Truelee Fiction permission to reproduce their story online and in future anthologies of both print and digital. You the author maintain all rights to your story while granting us reproduction permissions. Contest period: Nov 5, 2014 to Dec 7th, 2014  This contest may be canceled at any time. In the event that the contest is canceled, entry fees will be refunded and entrants will be notified via email.