Send Us Your Fiction #40 - Open
Only stories shared between September 27 - October 3
Hello Fiction Writers!
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TIF NEWS FOR WRITERS
Hi all! This is a new section I’ll be including in these TiF Notification emails. It will include very important information with regards to opportunities for writers within the Top in Fiction and TiF Press family. So, make sure you read this whenever you see it as it won’t necessarily be in every Sunday email.
PENTOBER 2025
31 Days. 31 Prompts. Ink, Paper, Terror! Find the prompt list here and join us over on our Substack Chat where more than a dozen people are participating in the old art form of putting pen to paper and writing a story. When you share your pic, make sure to tag
so we can include yours on our Weekly Round-Up! Week 1 is coming this Sunday!TiF PRESS “INANIMATE OBJECTS” CONTEST/EVENT
Are you working on your submission? It’s FREE TO ENTER but there’s only 19 days left to enter! And don’t worry, if you just want to participate in the event (where everyone will be posting their story at 9am on Halloween Day) instead of entering the contest, you can totally do that! Only those who enter the contest/event are eligible to receive an invitation to be in the Anthology slated for October 2026 release.
Enter Here / Deadline: Wednesday, October 15th
TiF PRESS FOR MEMBERS ONLY
We are a little over one month away from the beginning of our Novel-vember project. Are you ready to write for 30 days and share your progress with us? Register today!
A TiF DAY OF THANKS
Have you read a story in this community you really enjoyed or that really moved you? Maybe you’d like to let that person know? Maybe you don’t want them to know it came from you? Let Top in Fiction help you out! We’ll be celebrating all of those creative people we know and love from this year, and years past, by sharing the stories we love that they wrote and perhaps a note or two of Thanks. Look out for the sign-up week on November 17th - November 21st and for the Day of Thanks Live on Tuesday, November 25th.
A TiF SECRET SANTA
This December we are hoping to bring a bit of story-time cheer to everyone by swapping plots and seeing what drops! More info to come. Sign-up week is from November 20th - November 28th and, as always, a Live will happen some time in December before Christmas Day.
Top in Fiction is the place where fiction lives, but it’s also the place where a community of fiction writers and readers can come together every week to share in their mutual love (and respect) of fiction. Read the guidelines carefully:
Only fiction shared between September 27 - October 3 on Substack!
Any story shared BEFORE the dates listed above will be removed.
This form will CLOSE at 7am EST on Sunday, October 5.
Share fiction you’ve read AND/OR fiction you’ve written. (Self-promotion of your fiction is welcome!)
If self-promoting, submit NO MORE THAN 2 stories! This is a strict rule that will be enforced.
Story must be Free-to-Read (No portion of it can be behind a paywall).
Story must be written in English.
We DO NOT accept stories written by AI. If we discover, at any time, that AI was used, the story will be removed.
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