Six Word Playground

Playful writing scene with a vintage typewriter, coffee, and colourful sticky notes promoting the Six Word Wonder challenge to tell a story in exactly six words

Some stories take hundreds of pages. Others take just six words. This Six Word playground lets you experiment with the art of tiny storytelling. Type your idea, watch the word counter, and when you reach exactly six words you can submit your wonder to appear below. Try writing something funny, haunting, surprising, or beautiful. A … Read more

Six Word Wonder 2024 – most of the entries

This selection captures a spectrum of human emotions and experiences, from the poignant and the profound to the playful and the peculiar, each encapsulated in a compact six words. These entries, spanning romance, loss, discovery, and humor, reflect the contest’s diverse submissions.

Announcing the Winner – Six Word Wonder 2024

Six Word Wonders hardback book

The 4th Annual Six Word Wonder contest announces Bentley Brock as the overall winner, with winners in story, poem, memoir, and joke categories also revealed. A special anthology, Six Word Wonders 2024, features shortlisted entries. For a limited time, five books from the series are available for free as e-books. The contest showcases talents in writing succinct, powerful six-word narratives and will return next year for its 2025 edition.