Smories.com is a place for children's story writers (published and unpublished, professional & amateur)
to get their work published online, whilst retaining all rights.

Click here to see the winners of competitions we ran in May, June & July
Click here to see our FAQ page for a more detailed explanation of rights
Click here to see Tips for Writers

If you have an unpublished children's story, you can submit it now, below.
Each month we run a competition.
$1,000 in prize-money to be won.
Smory that gets the most views in the month wins $300.
2nd place = $250. 3rd place = $200. 4th place = $150. 5th place = $100.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

You need to be 16 years or older to submit a story.
You can submit from anywhere in the world.
Submission is free.

Not be longer than 700 (seven hundred) words.
Text only, in English.
Must be fiction for children from 3 to 8 years old.
Poetry & rhyming stories may also be submitted.
You must be the writer or owner of the copyright.
You may submit only 2 stories per month.
Typos, syntax and grammatical errors will prejudice your chances of selection.
No redrafts accepted. Final versions only.

RIGHTS AND COPYRIGHT

Stories will appear online on the smories channel only (www.smories.com).
Full credit and copyright will be attributed to the writer.
All rights will remain with the writer.
Stories can be removed from the smories channel at any time at the behest of the writer.
Smories.com will hold no claim to the story in any form.

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SUBMIT YOUR STORY VIA THE FORM BELOW

Please format correctly, i.e. please don't write everything in uppercase or lowercase,
as it means more work for us. Write how you'd like to see it appear online please...  :)

YOUR DETAILS
















YOUR STORY

(We suggest (c) copyright [first name] [last name] 2010, all rights reserved)

Target gender group







Target age group







Title of Your Story (Title-case. Please do not write in upper-case)




No need to include the title in the box below (it's already in the box above). 
(preferably copy-paste formatted text from Word - your formatting will be preserved)
In some cases, if your word-count is just below 700 words, sumbission might fail.
If this happens, please reduce the word-count and it will work.




Tags are keywords or labels that we add to the story to make it easier to find later.






Terms and Conditions

[1] Submittor of story warrants that he or she is submitting original material, and that to the best of his or her knowledge
and belief, he or she is not infringing upon any valid rights of any third party.

[2] Submittor warrants that story or part thereof has not been previously published.

[3] If the submitted story infringes upon any valid rights of any third party, the submittor shall be liable, and not smories.com.

[4] In clicking the "Submit" button, the submittor grants smories.com the right to have the submitted story read aloud, filmed,
and published to www.smories.com.

[5] This right can be revoked by the submittor at any time with 48 hours notice. (i.e. filmed story will be removed from
www.smories.com at any time at request of submittor with 48 hours notice).

[6] All other rights remain with the story writer.

[7] Submission of story does not obligate smories.com to film and publish the story.

[8] Smories.com reserves the right to remove narrated stories from the website at any time, irrespective of circumstances,
irrespective of whether they are in the competition or not.