Spring 2026 Winners – WritersWeekly 24-Hour Short Story Contest

* Reflections of the Past: A Journey Alone by Donna Deines
* Bring Only What You Can Lose by Antaeus
* Useless, Pretty Things by Anne Wilkins
* The Cost of Surviving by Chaleen Duggan
* Trust No One by Annie McLean
* Storm of Courage by Susan Samlidis
* Watching Through the Helios by H.T. Ashmead
* Gut Instinct by Rebecca Campobasso
* Stole and Scarf Dance by Lisa Loucks-Christenson
* A Dark Choice by Arlena Joy

The Doomsday Clock by Amelia Weissman
Withering Daisies by Jimmy Daleson
In Love with a Cowboy by Annette H. Sharp
The Rescue by Bob Swafford
The Flower Bearer by Bailey M. Hahn
The Harvest and the Harrow by Barbara Margarethe Eggert
The End of Times by Stuart Phillips
Water Music by Cass Cannon
Marigolds by Chloe Wachendorf
The Price We Pay for Love by Chris Russell
Moving Day by Nona Ward
The Clouds by Levi Tini
A Real Life Time by Varinia W. Kirk
Watch What Leaves by Suzanne Lynch
The Grand Scheme: A World Transformed by Sheri Ritchie
Nothing To Come Back To by Samantha Masters
Bizarro Trojan Horse by Miss Ruth Williams
The Hottest Garden In Town by Dax Duong
Surviving the Darkness by Debby Hays
Hope? by Gail D Prentice
Family by Paul F McQuillan
Cedric and Me by Nelda Holliman-Paden
Terminal Lucidity by Liam MacDonald
The Last Sunbeam by Athena Law
2nd Chances by Ellen Leader
The Husband Makes a Choice by James J. Brodell
If You’re Going To Leave, At Least Leave Sincerely by Johnathan Strider
Stand Strong in Your Faith by Cindy Bartolotta
When the Blessings Fade by Minette Fauvette
Taking Root by Angela Luo
Unexpected End of the World by Jessica Reynolds
Next To You by Wojciech Maciejewski
Take Cover by Vera Hogan
The Long Survival by Thomas Martinez
The Last Garden of Rose Woods by Tammy Ybarra
A Planet Called Paradise by Susan L. Strong
The Measure of Choice by Steve Denmark
The End, or the Beginning? by Shirley B. Novack
Actual Intelligence by Sabrina Fladness
The Solution to the Problem by Deborah Boller
The Sound Beneath the Soil by Darrick P Thames
The Ass Menagerie by Deidra Whitt Lovegren
The (Com)promised Land by Del Griffith
What the Sky Left Behind by Edward Michalski
Wild Honey, Blueberries, and Sacrifice by Eliza Haines
How to Milk a Story by Eric E. Wallace
The Troubles by Eric Perry
Morning Light by Frank Roe
Renewal by Gail A. Laursen
The Treasures of the Past by Gayle Rodcay
Overcast by Hunter Sargent
A Modern Mythology by Heather Thompson
Removed from Room 313 by Heather Vogler
Apocalypse by Helen Putre
Sacred Places by Jenise Nicholson
The Woman of the Snow by Rickey Pittman
Her Lola’s Hands by Peyton Lipsey
Therther and the Animals by Patricia Johnson
Cooking with Thermodynamics by J. David Thayer
GERRY-man-DERING by G.R. Jerry
I Shouldn’t Be Here by Miranda Rizzo
A New World by Michael Solomon
Home by Melody Gau
Full Circle by Marlene Bringardner
The Keepers by Madonna Ball
Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Time by Anna Nikolaus
Hopeful Pioneers by Lauryne Wright
Arroyos: All Dried Up by Laura Rodley
Inheriting the Earth by Jamie Bishop
Lights Out by Jamie Simpher
The Amber Path by Jane Bailey
Mercy for Sylvia by Renee’ La Viness
Flood Zone by Jesse Almquist
The Quiet of Vanishing Things by Jessica Martel
The Root Cause by Joanne Hirase-Stacey
Rebel With a Cause by John Linder
Black Sunday by Joseph Kaul
A Place to Call Her Own by Josephine Strand
Topping Off a New Deal, 15 March 1938 by Julie Mark Cohen
Before the Wave by Julie Nyhus
The Last Garden by Julie Sullivan
Communication by Bill Wilwers
Weathering the Storm by Debbie Parry
War & Roses by Ayanna Anene
The Appointed Time by Mark Visconi
The Centennial Homestead by Dave Moravec
The Other Big One by Deborah Lee Hall
The Element of Water by Jacqueline Stickney
Serendipitous Rescue by Kelly Harris
Last Transmission by Patrick Rushbrook