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🇨🇦 Award-winning Director/Producer/Writer. Creating the internet’s best original #audiodramas and #fanfiction with all of you 📚 🎙

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15 days
Our *Original Worlds* call is now open! We’re seeking stories that blend genres, haunt with character, and cut deep emotionally. Deadline: December 15, 2025.Share your voice. Shape the worlds.
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⚠️ Not every war is fought across trenches or void-choked battlefields. Some conflicts begin quietly. In the hidden corners of the soul. In whispers behind locked doors. In the hesitation before the trigger is pulled. Enter the contest ✍️ .
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Victory is forged in words ✍️ The winner of our latest Fast Fiction contest has been crowned — marking the end of our competition on The Scouring! . Read the winning entry, the official selection, and editors choice now:
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🪦 After a long silence, where only echoes and haunted things roamed the crypt, the *Sanctum Librarium* is once more accepting submissions. We’re calling on aspiring authors from across the galaxy to share bold, character-driven.
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Writers, time is running out! . FAST FICTION CONTEST (Warhammer 40K) 1,000 words, submit before June 30th at 11:59 PM PT ORIGINAL WORLDS (any genre!) 3,500-5,500 words, submit your manuscript before June 15th at 11:59 PM PT 📷
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RT @chris_buxey: A lone Imperial Fist space marine against a hive ship full of biological horrors. Can he prevail against the odds and aven….
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RT @chris_buxey: Skarsmasha is sent up the mountain to the Weird House to fetch an exiled Weirdboy. But the old warphead has some surprisin….
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RT @C0rbec: My thanks to the wonderful @ColdOpenStories for publishing another one of my original short stories! This my little Ray Bradbur….
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Every issue of our Originals provides readers with a chance to dive explore new worlds and characters according to a contextual theme.
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Submissions are open once again for the internet’s LONGEST RUNNING #Warhammer Fast Fiction competition. Join aspiring scribes, each testing their storytelling skills by crafting gripping, character-rich tales within 1,000 words . Enter now at
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🌲 On Mars, ecologists watch over a manmade forest inside a biodome. But when a figure from Slavic folklore begins appearing among the pines, they realize the forest may be protected by something far older—and far less human—than science. 🚨Now available:
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🌘 A shattered moon bleeds in the sky. Humanity prays to the void. In this poetic and haunting tale of cosmic horror and rebellion, one woman flees the cult she helped build—taking with her a child destined for sacrifice. 🚨Now available:
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🦎 Spanning three generations, this epic sci-fi saga follows Captains Stone, Bazin, and Jones as they battle a terrifying enemy that mimics humanity’s every move. To win, they must become the one thing the enemy can’t copy: unpredictable. 🚨Now available:
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✉️ The survival of humanity depends on one fragile supply line. Haunted by his brother’s death, Lieutenant Williams joins the fleet’s most notorious pilot—Captain Sato, callsign Charon—for a high-risk supply run through alien-held skies. 🚨 Now available:
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5 months
Interested in entering the contest? Battle against the sharpest minds and boldest voices against a relentless constraint — word count. Entires for Fast Fiction XXIII are now open as well ✍️.
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📣 The results are in - read the *No Limits* winners from the longest-running Warhammer community writing competition! Now available online at
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RT @chris_buxey: Xenos invaders be damned! If Administrator Second-Class Hubert can’t convince his colleagues to file the correct paperwork….
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7 months
📚 New year, NEW Anthology! We're thrilled to share 9 Warhammer 40,000 stories in Short Fiction XV, the latest in our unofficial Black Library collection. 🔴 Discover new grimdark tales NOW at
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RT @dlood: Long before the events of Aureum Lupus, First Acolyte Racka Utó and Khait of Prospero challenged each other's mastery of the Emp….
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Warhammer 40,000 Short Fiction Anthology: Tragic, harrowing, and bittersweet tales set in the 41st Millennium.
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Enter before Jan 31st, 2025 at . While you’re there, discover ✨ 5 years ✨ of the internet’s BEST 40k fanfiction (from new voices, and authors published by Black Library)
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In our first writing contest of 2025, NO LIMITS invites authors to explore ANY faction within the grimdark setting of #warhammer40k - be it stories of epic battles, small personal conflicts, strange discoveries, or the moments between larger-than-life events.
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