Each year, Dirt Rag holds a reader submitted fiction contest.
While on maternity leave, she submitted a short story to a statewide fiction contest in the magazine Honolulu.
Aldrich began writing more regularly in 1911 when the Ladies' Home Journal advertised a fiction contest, which she entered and won.
In 1992, the summer before her senior year, she won Seventeen magazine's fiction contest.
Honolulu is also known for its annual statewide fiction contest, though the last contest took place in 2006.
They have troubles, such as being asked to judge a fiction contest.
The fiction contest runs from January 1 to May 31.
Try your hand at Esquire's seventy-eight-word fiction contest.
At 19, she won Seventeen magazine's fiction contest.
(Story Magazine, by comparison, averages 6,000 tries for each of its twice-a-year fiction contests.)