[#ONC2024] The Open Novella Contest is back for 2024 with shiny new prompts to get you out of your dragon cave. Once again, we are here to challenge you to create a legendary 20,000+ word novella in 12 weeks! Your epic journey begins February 1st, so mark your calendars.✨
|CROSSROADS x LEAP YEAR | Eighteen-year-old April Lewis flees her troubled home, desperate to escape her emotionally distant, controlling mom, and seek out her dad. Little does she know a chance encounter with her classmate will take her on a cross-country ride: a journey that will change April's life forever. A vent...
Ever since she was injured in a terrible accident, Cordelia Williams has felt adrift. The accident claimed more than her limb; it ruined her reputation and destroyed her dream of becoming a famous painter. Worried that her disability makes her a disgrace to her prominent Regency family, Cordelia tries to find other wa...
all rounds ONC qualified | wattpad ambassador select x1 | ONC shortlist qualified It was supposed to be a quick business trip, a bullet train ride from New York to Chicago. But the minute the train pulled out of the station, things started to go wrong. A person was murdered in the sleeper cabin, and everyone on the...
Grady just wants to grieve the loss of his ex in peace, but then Quinn's younger sister, Taryn, whirls into his Texas hometown, looking to stir up the past. She brings in a wave of goons with her and a mystery that's well beyond his pay grade. Still, it's Grady's job to serve and protect, and as much as he may want to...
||ONC 2024|| Twilight x Scooby-Doo || Why is Zoe's crush glowing blue?|| Zoe has no desire to chase after dangerous love and alphaholes. Not after that last time when a smug jock made her a laughing stock of the entire school! Cruz is the safest bet for a prom date--a top athlete who had never been noticed in any bad...
After getting in a car accident a young reserved plant enthusiast must embrace reality in order to make amends with family and be there when his loved ones need him before it's too late. - - - When reserved and plant obsessed 14-year-old Oren Spalding flies do...
When flowers get pricked, they wreck the world. Rathi was once a petunia. As she walks the muddy roads with guilt that pits her heart, she hears the skies roar. The bolt of lightning pierced her eyes making her weakly succumb to the grounds. Little did she know, she was split. A tragic irony that she will never wish t...
Severine is ambitious. Her dream is to become the first female president of France. Belittled and betrayed, today's friends become tomorrow's foes as Severine Lafarge fights her way in a cutthroat campaign where the media sways opinions and social platforms become the wrestling arena of partisans. #ONC2024 Main prom...
*ONC2024 Shortlister* This is for the 2024 open novella contest, I picked prompt 21." A dragon, an elf, and a dwarf embark on a quest to find the lost heir to the kingdom." ***** Morte, the heir to the kingdom, vanishes inexplicably in a peaceful world. Tobi, a devoted friend, finds out about the king's failing health...
How many friends do you have? When a stray thought forces Will Marte to notice the oddities in his everyday life, what follows is a reflection on the friendly relationships he has and had and a contemplation on the question: what is a friend? Having had an unconventional upbringing, he still feels its effects as an...
A fun-loving young woman yearning for financial freedom and love becomes entangled in lies and scandal while working for a cynical billionaire. *** Katerina Ramos, a recent grad drowning in student loan debt, interns at...
The holidays are over, but the murders aren't. Lieutenant Christina MaCaw is a formidable figure in the Los Angeles Police Department, heading up the Special Taskforce Unit with an iron hand. She's seen it all, from gruesome murders to high-stakes hostage situations, but nothing could have prepared her for the series...
Time heals all wounds. When you have the power to rewind it, you begin to wonder whether it's too much responsibility for one person to hold. ***** Sometimes, walking away is the scariest, yet the bravest thing one can do. Iris Fox would know; after r...
Peaky Blinders meets Bonnie and Clyde. **** Eighteen-year-old Kit Jones has spent his life on the wrong side of the law. Having grown up poor in London's seedy East End, Kit has fought tooth and nail just to survive. Emily Masters cannot say the same. Born to rich parents, she's been handed everything she could ever d...
When a struggling pianist takes up an offer to play at the mansion of an elusive billionaire dollmaker's son, she is not prepared for the horrors she finds within. ♤ Trying to maintain her scholarship at Juilliard and also pay her rent, nineteen-year-old Divya Mahavant is playing at a piano bar for bejeweled New York...
| ᴏɴᴄ 2024 ᴀᴍʙᴀꜱꜱᴀᴅᴏʀ ᴘɪᴄᴋ | ᴏɴᴄ 2024 ꜱʜᴏʀᴛʟɪꜱᴛᴇʀ | ❝ ᴀ ꜱᴡᴇᴇᴛ ᴛʀᴇᴀᴛ ᴄᴏᴜʟᴅ ʙᴇ ʏᴏᴜʀ ᴅᴇᴍɪꜱᴇ. ❞ Deathly Delights is a bakery specialised in the art to kill. Poisoned filled muffins, venom coated pastries, cakes decorated with toxins - if you can name it, Taerane Aviris can make the delicacy designed to slaughter. However...
In the isolated world of Veridonia, three teenagers-Axelle, Wylan, and Keira-uncover dark secrets and face dangerous truths as they battle a deadly plague and oppressive government, challenging the very fabric of their once-perfect world. ➣➣➣ "Our world is bad, but the outside is much worse, Axelle!" In the confines o...
When Eventyr spirals into war, three young foxes from its divided kingdoms must discover themselves and their united purpose if they wish to save their home from being destroyed. -❈- A reluctant heir. A living mistake. A misguided ambition. One knows nothing but violence, one knows nothing but deceit, and the last is...