Writing short stories in his spare time, he won a short story contest, which led a book publisher to encourage him to write a novel.

One student's writing wound up as testimony before a Congressional subcommittee; another won a scholarship in a story contest.

For winnin' third place in the short story contest.

In 1933, he won a short story contest as a student.

The unnamed narrator comes in fourth in a short story contest.

The magazine also sponsored an annual short story contest on Canadian themes and acquired a sports department.

"This is not a story contest between black and white," he said.

She began her career in fiction writing after winning a short story contest in a local Phoenix newspaper.

The magazine, published since 1982, is famous for its popular annual short story contest, held since 1986.

She won second place in Photoplay magazine's 1921 short story contest gaining her a $2,500 prize.