The 2023 48-hour Savage Mystery Writing Contest is now open.
Entries must be received by 5 PM Eastern Time, Sunday, March 19, 2023.
Write a mystery that features a clue to a buried treasure.
Word range: Between 3000–3500 words.
(date subject to change)
Contest starts: Friday, March 17, 5pm ET / 2pm PT
Contest ends: Sunday, March 19, 5pm ET / 2pm PT
The June 2022 issue of Toasted Cheese features poetry by Lori Bellamy, Sara Falkstad, Jenny Hockey, Hannah Ray, Lacie Semenovich & John Sweet; flash by Mike Hickman, Emma Pearl & Renée Perry; and fiction by Elisse Sophia Ahmet, Sophy Bristow, Mary Chambers, Sarah Hills, Hannah Hopkins, Inés G. Labarta, Tony Press & Annabel White.
TC 22:2 also includes the 2022 Savage Mystery Writing Contest winning stories by Robin Hillard, Janet Innes & Sue Seabury.
At Candle-Ends, Shelley Carpenter reviews The Italian Professor’s Wife by Ann Pedone and Salvatore Marici reviews A Child Walks in the Dark by Darren C. Demaree.
The cover image is by Joe Flood on Flickr, with additional photos by photographers around the world, all of whom have generously made their work available for use under Creative Commons licenses. Please click through and check out their photostreams.
Congratulations to all. Happy reading!
Congratulations to the winners of the 2022 Savage Mystery Writing Contest!
First Place: “The Wonderland House” by Robin Hillard
Second Place: “Plums” by Janet Innes
Third Place: “The Case of the Missing Princess” by Sue Seabury
Honorable Mention: “The Merest Glimpse” by Eric Williams.
The winning entries will appear in the upcoming issue of Toasted Cheese.
We’d like to thank everyone who entered. Antique dollhouses hold so many creative mysteries. I hope everyone had as much fun writing the stories as I had reading them.
Amanda (The Bellman) Marlowe
The Savage 48-hour Writing Contest is back in September with our science fiction/fantasy edition.
The 2022 A Midsummer Tale Narrative Writing Contest is currently open for entries.
The 2022 48-hour Savage Mystery Writing Contest is now open.
Entries must be received by 5 PM Eastern Time, Sunday, March 20, 2022.
Write a mystery story that features an antique dollhouse.
Word range: Between 2400 and 2600 words.
(date subject to change)
Contest starts: Friday, March 18, 5pm ET / 2pm PT
Contest ends: Sunday, March 20, 5pm ET / 2pm PT
The June 2021 issue of Toasted Cheese features poetry by Kathleen Bryson & Marchell Dyon; flash by Carla Scarano D’Antonio, Laura Gavin & Terri Mullholland; fiction by Sarah Clayville, Linda Griffin, Caleb Martin-Rosenthal, Laura Mazzenga & DRC Wright; and creative nonfiction by Kimberly Cullen & David Sapp.
TC 21:2 also includes the 2021 Savage Mystery Writing Contest winning stories by Cara Brezina, Morgan-McKay Hoppmann & Jay Bechtol.
At Candle-Ends, Shelley Carpenter reviews Celeste Blue by Lou Nell Gerard and Triggers by Alexa Recio de Fitch.
The cover image is by A. Currell on Flickr, with additional photos by photographers around the world, all of whom have generously made their work available for use under Creative Commons licenses. Please click through and check out their photostreams.
Congratulations to all. Happy reading!
Congratulations to the winners of the 2021 Savage Mystery Writing Contest!
First Place: “Off Your Block” by Cara Brezina
Second Place: “Mystery at the Museum by Morgan-McKay Hoppmann
Third Place: “Memories from Franklin County, Missouri” by Jay Bechtol
The winning entries will appear in the upcoming issue of Toasted Cheese.
We’d like to thank everyone who entered. The unexpected uprooting of trees revealed a variety of mysteries. I hope you had as much fun writing the stories as I had reading them.
Amanda (The Bellman) Marlowe