The Hallway is holding its first contest! Themed around the word "wish", we're accepting submissions February 10-28 with a $100 prize. Our judges are The Hallway editors Tenley Cederholm and Kate Meen.

Kate, Five Minutes’ submissions and newsletter editor, enjoys reading books of any genre, though always appreciates a good fantasy novel. She is also fond of writing, knitting, and drawing. She hopes to one day be a journalist. 

Tenley, a past Five Minutes editorial intern, loves reading all genres, especially horror, but writing is her passion. She also has a love for interviewing, music, and fashion design. She hopes to one day be a journalist and a singer. 

You can enter the contest at Submittable. Guidelines are below, and also at Submittable.

GUIDELINES
Send us your 100-word piece about five minutes in your life on the theme of WISH! Must be in high school, or your country's equivalent. Contest runs Feb. 10- 20. Winner will be announced at the end of March and awarded $100! You can enter up to three times, and all pieces will also be considered for publication in The Hallway.

• Piece should be 100 words, formatted as one paragraph without line breaks. Not 99. Not 101. Title, which is not part of 100 words, should be 15 characters maximum, including spaces.

• There should be one identifiable moment (approx. five minutes) that’s the crux of the piece.

• We don’t publish: • poetry or fiction • things you dreamed or imagined, or someone else's story they told you • things you saw without you in the piece • graphic descriptions of sex, violence • hate speech, slurs

• We are committed to inclusivity and strongly encourage submissions from marginalized voices.

• We do not publish previously published pieces, including those shared on your blog or socials.

• We reserve the right to publish your piece first. We are happy to have your piece published again elsewhere if 1) you wait 30 days (this includes running the piece in full on your own sites and social media, with the exception of sharing our social media posts); 2) it runs with a note that it first appeared in Five Minutes; and 3) you let us know. We also reserve the right to read your Five Minutes piece aloud at a Five-Minutes related event, which may be recorded for later use.