CONTESTS & EXTRAS

Featured writing from our contests & writing challenge winners. Follow @overheardlit on Twitter to partake in our next challenge!

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Feb 2
1 min

Dear Mary Elizabeth, August 1979

By Beth Gordon. Winner of Overheard's Poetry Contest. Tell someone you love that there's a wall of fire ants in your head…

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Jan 25
3 min

Toes in the Sand

By Lannie Stabile She knew summer was over when the feet started washing up on shore. Bloated, like the underbelly of a sow. In sleek...

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Aug 22, 2020
2 min

The Fully Configurable Hat

By Tim Warren — Winner of a 250-word challenge! Oh, French Polynesia! Land of the fully configurable hat. (Panama eat your heart out.)