Welcome to Inscape‘s writing contests! Starting in 2024, Inscape began seasonal writing contests designed to reward and honor authors with superb writing skills that are bizarre, believing, and beautiful.
Writing Contests
Fall 2025 Contest: Haunted Eulogies
First Place Winner
Shatterpoint by Paige Melton
Runner-up
Eulogy of Lives Unlived by Haley Roberts
Honorable Mentions
A Confession by Olivia Flynn
A Hallowed Haunting by Rebekah Barton
Not Israel Yet by Will Klepko
Flash Summer Contest 2025: Unclaimed Baggage
Poetry Winner
Green Jell-O by Ryklee Bench
Fiction Winner
Lost Item Report 12151920 by Asher Lee
Creative Nonfiction Winner
The Taste of Absence by Bethany Bruno
Art Winner
We can’t all be the heroes we wanted to be by Colby St Gelais
Art Contest 2025: Metamorphosis
Winner
Self-Portrait by Moriah Smith
Runner-up
BLOOM by Mary Ann Jensen
Honorable Mentions
Hands: A Love Story by Ellie Munoa
Little Tear Girl by Ellie Munoa
When I Let It Go by Avlynn Hammond
Tolmie State Park by Morgan Cardon
The Discovery of Others by Cecily Nicoll
Ancient Mosaics Gone Astray by Aleta Goodwin
Impermanent by Abigail Erdman
What the Flesh Surrenders by Daniela Busse
Broken Wings by Alyssa Brown
Knowledge Is Evolution by Isabella Mercer
Braindead by Keira Hansen
Husk of Body by Donelly Clark
Amy Stops Traffic by Rosie Nielsen
Poetry Contest 2025: An Ode to Anything But a Person
Winner
Ode to Edges by Karen George
Runner-up
Ode to an Electric Guitar by Neah DePoe
Honorable Mentions
Ode to My Pulmonary Emboli by Jennifer Saunders
Ode to Showers by Molly Smith
Love Poem to a Heartbroken Zombie by Hollie Dugas
Halloween Spooky Short Story Contest
2024
Winner
Toes, Teeth, and the Thing Under the Bridge by Eli Tillemann
Runner-up
Hypothesis on the Human Brain by Jacob Nef
Honorable Mentions
Cinders by Ariel Hemloch
How to Survive a Horror Movie by Richard Scott
Leave the Lights On by Atticus Pixton
Deserted Highway by Alexander Dunn
