Royally Inspired Tournament

The First Annual WhiteCrown Princess Moments Contest

Hear ye, hear ye! You’re invited to don your writer’s armor and prove your mettle in a battle to the death…er…publication!

What Is the Royally Inspired Tournament?

In this writing contest, you write a short story based on one of the book cover images linked above–there are nearly 30 to choose from! When you submit your story, start by saying which image it goes with (for instance, “Contemporary 3”). We will choose FOUR winners, which will be published with the image you selected as the cover (we’ll of course add your title to it!).

What are Princess Moments?

Princess Moments are short fiction that give readers that “ahhh” moment that royal fiction is famous for—the one where a royal steps up or accepts the proposal or finds their inner strength or wins the day or realizes their own true worth. Princess Moments are published exclusively on WhiteCrown’s website and are free for readers to enjoy.

How Long Should the Entries Be?

Current Princess Moments range from 500-2000 words. This is a great guideline, though we’re not super-strict about word counts on these. Keep it a “short,” but feel free to use however much space your story needs. (The “official” definition of a short story is 1,000-7,500 words.)

How Many Entries Can Each Writer Submit?

As many as you like! You can submit multiple stories for the same image, or a story for different images! Entries will be anonymized before they’re sent to the judges, so each entry will be judged on its own merits alone.

Is there an entry fee?

Nope! The contest is free to enter!

Are there any restrictions on who can enter?

Nope! You can be published or unpublished, any age. Just keep in mind that WhiteCrown readers are teens and adults, so we’d like to see short stories that target teen or older.

Who Are the Judges?

The Royally Inspired Tournament will be judged by royal experts—WhiteCrown’s existing authors and editors!

What Do Winners Receive?

Each winner will receive a contract for publication on the WhiteCrown website, as well as a special edition WhiteCrown original paperback of their choice with printed edges.

Things to Know About WhiteCrown?

WhiteCrown is a line of royal fiction under the WhiteFire Publishing Group, a Christian publisher. While faith themes don’t need to be overt, especially in short fiction, there should be nothing in your entry that would mark it as incompatible with our publisher, including foul language, explicit sex scenes, or graphically described violence. All stories published by WhiteCrown must feature royalty. To know what kind of stories we most love, you should read our existing short fiction and/or novels.

Feeling royally inspired? Then get writing!

Deadline for submissions is November 15, 2024.

Winners will be announced on December 6, 2024.

Entries should be emailed to princessmoments@whitecrownpublishing.com
using a subject line of “Royally Inspired Tournament Submission”
Again, please include WHICH IMAGE your entry is meant to match,
along with a TITLE for your story!

We can’t wait to see what stories these images inspire!