This month explore the idea of debt beyond money or obligation. 

Your story may centre on what one character owes another, what a community demands, or what remains unpaid long after a moment has passed. These debts may arise from love, guilt, care, silence, or responsibility. Through imagined lives and choices, explore how such reckonings shape relationships, and what it costs to honour them, resist them, or walk away.

Click here for submission guidelines and rules.

The submission for the contest is open from January 1 to January 31, 2026
Results for the event shall be shared on February 7, 2026, at 8:00 pm

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