A few days ago, as I was in my office checking my email, I received a message from my Polish publisher that asked for the story behind the name of my debut young adult novel, This Is Why They Hate Us. To say this was the first time someone had voiced confusion about the connection […]
The Park Charlotte, Joaquin, and Ginny stare at the envelope laying on the splintered picnic table. It’s nothing special. Just the plain white legal-size kind you can buy at any grocery or office supply store. Fifty or one hundred to a box for less than five dollars. “Where do you think it came from?” Charlotte […]
Thank you to everyone who submitted short stories! Check back in mid-July for the results! Big changes are at work for Voyage this year! We are moving all of our prize opportunities to two biannual anthologies dedicated to top-notch YA writing. We want to give our incredible contributors a chance to see their name in print! We […]
These 30 stories are under review to form a shortlist of 15 stories that we will send to judge Gabino Iglesias!
This contest is now closed. Thank you to everyone who entered! We’ll have a longlist in around ten weeks! We’re challenging writers to create 1,000-word-max flash genre stories in ten days or fewer! You’re invited to submit to the AI Flash Challenge from May 04 to May 14, 2023. We often find that the blank […]
Born and raised in the suburbs of Philadelphia, PA, Lauren Thoman studied music education, though soon realized that the life of a band director was not for her. Her passion for pop culture and watching and analyzing movies and TV shows led her to become a frequent contributor to a number of prominent online pop […]
1st Place: Grimoire Gold by Goldie Maisey Quick 2nd Place: Roses by Emily Liu 3rd Place: In the Autumn Days of Empire by Lilia Zhang
This contest is now closed. Thank you to everyone who entered! We’ll have a longlist in around ten weeks!
Ai Jiang is a Chinese-Canadian writer and an immigrant from Fujian. Her debut novella, Linghun, will be published this spring, as will her collection, Ai Jiang’s Smol Tales From Between Worlds. She also recently announced a new novelette, I Am Ai, coming in June. Her stories have appeared or are forthcoming in The Magazine of […]
What a stirring list of titles! Stay tuned for which excerpts are declared our winners!
The wait is over! Today, the Voyage Team is incredibly happy to announce the winners of our 2022 First Chapters Contest! We were all in agreement that the talent just keeps getting better and better! A huge pat on the back to the writers who submitted and took risks by getting their work out there. […]
What a stirring list of titles! Stay tuned for which titles make it onto the shortlist!