On LitNet there are some poetry contests threads but not a single short story competition, except the official one which had a last edition last year.
On this site there are a lot of people that write very good English prose. There sometimes are interesting short story contributions but they somehow remain isolated getting little attention from fellow Litnetters.
The idea is to stimulate the production and submission of short stories not only of those that already write them and would like them commented, but also from them who never wrote a story.
I think I need not ask you to follow the publishing rules of the site. I also want to emphasize that, they are short timed contests and like in the subject poetry contest and the minimalist poetry contest the winner doesn´t get a price. As the winner he determines the next subject, the submission deadline and evaluates the incoming contributions.
And our first theme is "Family", deadline August, 1st.
Let´s see how it goes!