Short and Sweet: OBON 2025's
Micro Storytelling Contest

Contest Rules​​

1) Attend at least one micro storytelling workshop. Click here to register.   

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2) Write your own 53-word story

• Can be fiction or nonfiction

• Can be written in any language

• Can submit more than one piece of original writing

• Must be original 

• Must be human-generated (no AI) 

• Must be 53 words or fewer

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3) Submit your story HERE by 5pm on Friday, 10/10/25

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Winners will receive: 

• Invitation to dinner with candice iloh and the OBON team

• Autographed copies of candice iloh’s novels: Salt the Water and Every Body Looking 

• Two front-row seats to an evening with candice iloh on Friday, 10/24/25

• An opportunity to read your story allowed or on video to be presented at an evening with candice iloh

• Public acknowledgement at an evening with candice iloh

• NAEF swag bag

• $20 gift card to Recycle Read Repeat