Contest Description

Fanfiction novels of 40,000 words or more! (Note: Submissions can only be posted from a computer)

  • It’s time for you to bring your manuscript into the light and show it off to the world.
  • The top 10% based on reader votes get the chance to be picked by the staff for 1st, 2nd and 3rd place
  • Accepting finished, novel-length fanfiction stories from any fandom and any genre
  • Inkitt will consider aiding the winning authors in the reworking of their stories for original publication
  • Minimum word count is 40,000 words
  • In order to submit a novel, authors must make it publicly available on the Inkitt platform by pasting the text into the story editor
  • Submissions close on October 21th, but voting will continue for an additional week
  • All stories must be rated appropriately by their authors
  • Before submitting a story, be sure to check our guidelines page to ensure that you comply with all of our publication rules

Prizes for Winners

1st Place

Golden badge on your profile

2nd Place

Silver badge on your profile

3rd Place

Bronze badge on your profile

Top 10%

All Top 10% participants receive a "Top 10%" badge to their profile

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1.The Keys of Fire

Runaway Lucy Heartfilia finally gets to join Fairy Tail, house and school for homeless kids, but she didn’t expect the danger, love, war, and deadly mystery of her mother's keys that lay waiting...

Based on Fairy Tail / Submitted about 3 years ago by LoneStorm

2.Trial By Fire

When a series of fires unsettles the city of Magnolia, Detective Lucy Heartfilia unwittingly reignites a war between old rivals. But then she finds herself drawn to one of her suspects...

Based on Fairy Tail / Submitted about 3 years ago by eviltrinity

Best of Me

When a woman without a job, degree, or any notion of independence discovers her boyfriend has been cheating on her, she decides the best way to land on her feet is to become a call girl.

Based on The Vampire Diaries / Submitted about 3 years ago by hybridlovelies

4.Red Rose Thorn

Brie is a huge fan of "The Phantom of the Opera," and when she falls through a mirror, she wakes up and finds out she's in the movie, she's Christine's sister, and her life will change forever.

Based on Phantom Of The Opera / Submitted about 3 years ago by Grapejuice101

5.The Feared Estate

Lady Caroline Forbes finds herself engaged to a man she has heard horrible rumours about. While exploring the woods she meets a man named Klaus, who transforms her life into something else. | AU

Based on Vampire Diaries / Submitted about 3 years ago by AlleyDreamsOn

6.Invisible Ties

Fate can be changed. Nothing is set in stone. When Robin wakes in the middle of a field with no memory of his past nothing could prepare him for the journey that awaits and the trials he faces.

Based on Fire Emblem / Submitted about 3 years ago by metallover

7.The Midnight Marauder

The Marauders. We met them through Harry's eyes. But Harry never knew the whole story. And he never, never knew about the love of Sirius' life...welcome to Hogwarts as it was for them...

Based on Harry Potter / Submitted about 3 years ago by Isabella Martinez

8.If Only Tonight We Could Sleep

The apocalypse has already ended. Maka Albarn merely exists day-to-day, the world before the virus long forgotten, until she meets an infected man, Soul Evans, who reminds her she is still alive.

Based on Soul Eater / Submitted about 3 years ago by sleepmarshes

9.Down and Out in Death City

Soul thought avoiding jail was the hard part, but between unemployment, an overachieving superhero girlfriend, and the threat of Arachnophobia, life as an ex-villain isn't all it's cracked up to be.

Based on Soul Eater / Submitted about 3 years ago by ProMa

10.Internuntii

Soul Eater Bastion AU; The old world is destroyed; Maka is left with nothing. But she finds Stein the doctor, Kid the diplomat, and Soul, the young man with a hammer. Slowly they rebuild together.

Based on Soul Eater / Submitted about 3 years ago by fabulousanima

11.The Bravery of the Soldier

Everybody knows that John Watson had been an army doctor. But just what that entailed not even Sherlock Holmes could imagine, and now John's demons have come back to haunt him.

Based on Sherlock / Submitted about 3 years ago by CoKa

12.To Live Again

Is it possible to die and come back to another world? For Clara Riley it just might be! A daydreamer and lover of all things fantastical Clara gets the shock of her life when she wakes up in Greenwood

Based on Lord Of The Rings / Submitted about 3 years ago by CJ_Wunderkind

13.If All Angels Are Terrible

Maka Albarn is a spaceship captain. When Imperium, the militarized government that rules the solar system, begins to cause chaos, the only thing she can do is fight back despite overwhelming odds.

Based on Soul Eater / Submitted about 3 years ago by rainingdownhearts

14.Times Like These

A man from Felicity's past she never thought she'd see again suddenly appears in Starling City, bringing with him memories she'd rather keep forgotten, and a new threat.

Based on Arrow / Submitted about 3 years ago by Anthfan

15.Heresy

Nightmares and haunts from his past plague Soul's life. When Maka comes back into his life, he isn't sure if she'll see him for him or as the monster everyone else does.

Based on Soul Eater / Submitted about 3 years ago by khaleesimaka

16.Me, You, and Peter, Too

Steve can't stomach the thought of Peter growing up in an orphanage. He knows what that's like, and he will do anything to stop that from happening to another child.

Based on The Avengers / Submitted about 3 years ago by starspangledsprocket

17.To Be A King

Upon learning of his father's secret past, Merlin is forced to leave Camelot for the perils of his own royal court. Can he regain Arthur's favor and protect both their kingdoms before all is lost?

Based on Merlin / Submitted about 3 years ago by clotpolesonly

18.Spirit Chains

The world has tried to forget Avatar Asura and his attempt to take over the two worlds. But pieces are being moved into place for his return and he'll stop at nothing from finishing what he started.

Based on Soul Eater / Submitted about 3 years ago by Lunar Resonance

19.The Worst Fourth Pirate in History

A crucial friendship breaks the monotony of teenaged Aaron Hotchner’s painful life. Meanwhile, Aaron hides his family secret, has many high school mis/adventures, and develops a passion for justice.

Based on Criminal Minds / Submitted about 3 years ago by SaltAndLight

20.Cross To Bear

With a heavenly fall comes a bundled miracle. The Winchesters take Castiel into their home without knowing his origins. Destiny calls him in the throes of high school drama and puberty, he isn't ready

Based on Supernatural / Submitted about 3 years ago by Zafona

Contest Description

Fanfiction novels of 40,000 words or more!

  • It’s time for you to bring your manuscript into the light and show it off to the world.
  • The top 10% based on reader votes get the chance to be picked by the staff for 1st, 2nd and 3rd place
  • Accepting finished, novel-length fanfiction stories from any fandom and any genre
  • Inkitt will consider aiding the winning authors in the reworking of their stories for original publication
  • Minimum word count is 40,000 words
  • In order to submit a novel, authors must make it publicly available on the Inkitt platform by pasting the text into the story editor
  • Submissions close on October 21th, but voting will continue for an additional week
  • All stories must be rated appropriately by their authors
  • Before submitting a story, be sure to check our guidelines page to ensure that you comply with all of our publication rules

Prizes for Winners

1st Place

Golden badge on your profile

2nd Place

Silver badge on your profile

3rd Place

Bronze badge on your profile

Top 10%

All Top 10% participants receive a "Top 10%" badge to their profile

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