Round 1: 1st Place for heat: “And Chickie Makes Three” (romantic comedy) – now available for purchase in print and digital in TL;DR Press’ Breathless anthology
Round 2: 1st Place for heat: “Sacked” (action/adventure)
Round 3: 3rd Place for heat: ‘Help! My Husband Is the President of Sexy, But I’m Only Moderately Attractive” (crime caper)
Round 1: 5th Place for heat: “Scareplane” (comedy) – now available from 101 Words
Round 2: 2nd Place for heat: “Pinocchio in Puberty” (comedy)
Final Round: Honorable Mention: “Tyler’s Birthday” (drama)
The Writer’s Games 2021, Portion 1 (The Writer’s Workout)
Event 1: 1st Place: “Some Roots Are Thicker Than Others” (drama) – now available for purchase in print and digital in The Writer’s Workout’s 2021 72 Hours of Insanity anthology
Overall: Top 20 finisher
Furious Fiction – June 2021 (Australian Writers’ Centre)
Round 1: 1st Place for heat:The Witch at the End of the World (fantasy)
Round 2: Honorable Mention: Away Games (romance)
NYC Midnight Short Story Story Challenge 2021
Round 1: 5th Place for heat: “Amber Rivera and the Many Tiny Faces” (drama)
Round 2: Honorable Mention: “Three Tales for Today” (fairy tale)
Patty’s Short Stax, a Breaking Rules Publishing editor’s-choice “best of 2020” collection
Selected for “best of” collection: “Matthew, Oliver, and the Most Epic Prom-posal Westbury High Ever Saw” (young-adult bromance) – Available for purchase in print or digital
WritersWeekly 24-Hour Short Story Contest – Winter 2021
Honorable Mention: “Round and Round, Forever” (suspense)
Ink 2 Screen Monthly Writing Challenge – October 2020
Winner:Seeing You Through the Steam(steampunk/superhero screenplay)
NYC Midnight Short Screenplay Challenge – 2020
Round 1: 5th Place for heat:ha (suspense)
WritersWeekly 24-Hour Short Story Contest – Fall 2020
Honorable Mention: “Rag Doll” (horror)
WritersWeekly 24-Hour Short Story Contest – Summer 2020
Honorable Mention: “The Sequel’s Sometimes Better Than the Original” (comedy) – now available from Paper Butterfly Flash Fiction
NYC Midnight Flash Fiction Contest – 2020
Round 1: 9th Place for heat: “Victorian Disco Vampires — FROM OUTER SPACE!!!” (science fiction)
Round 2: 4th Place for heat: “Beer, Bears, and Bath Salts: A True Crime Exclusive from Hollywood Holly” (crime caper)
The Story Engine/The Shortest Story 100-word Microfiction Contest – 2020
Round 1: 1st Place for heat: “A Friend from Childhood” (horror)
Round 2: Honorable Mention: “Wedlock” (horror) – now available from Trembling With Fear
The Molotov Cocktail Flash Monster Contest – 2019
Short List: “I Hate Vermonica F. (And You Should Too!)” (monster/comedy) – now available from Fat Cat Magazine
NYC Midnight Flash Fiction Challenge – 2019
Round 1: 1st Place for heat: “Even Bad Guys Have Good Days in Excelsior City” (crime caper) – now available from Wyldblood Press
Round 2: 1st Place for heat: “Matthew, Oliver, and the Most Epic Prom-posal Westbury High Ever Saw” (romance) – now available for purchase in hard copy or digital from Triangle Writers Magazine
Round 3: Honorable Mention: “Holding” (ghost story) – now available from Metaphorosis
NYC Midnight Screenwriting Challenge – 2019
Round 1: 3rd Place for heat:Alejandro Cruz & His Planetary Pirates, Episode IX: Cruising the Galaxy for Love (romantic comedy)
Round 2: Honorable Mention:Shards of Discipline (ghost story)
NYC Midnight Short Story Challenge – 2019
Round 1: 1st Place for heat: “Something Innocent and Benign” (fantasy) – now available from The Weird and Whatnot
Round 2: 3rd Place for heat: “Through the Darkest of Stars, Toward the Cruelest of Fates” (ghost story) – now available from Bowery Gothic
NYC Midnight Short Screenplay Challenge – 2018
Round 1: 2nd Place for heat:Some Days You Get the Dirt: A Joey Stone Mystery (mystery)
Round 2: 12th Place for heat:EYES (horror)
Round 3: 3rd Place for heat:OPERATION: Get My Gay Friend a Date (romantic comedy)
NYC Midnight Flash Fiction Challenge – 2018
Round 1: 3rd Place for heat: “Grandmama Pickleberrry and the Terrific Teens in ‘The Return of the Boardwalk Boogeyman'” (ghost story)
Round 2: 4th Place for heat: “And Trah-lah-lah to You Too!” (mystery)
John Adams, Writer 