Welcome to The Ink Well!

Thank you for sharing a story in The Ink Well community. Please ensure that you have provided image sourcing for the image used in your submission. Kindly also ensure that you are supporting other writers in line with our community guidelines :-)

Now that you're here, please have a look around and get to know our community. Here are a few tips for getting acquainted:

Be sure to read The Ink Well community rules at the top of the community home page, and check out our FAQ about The Ink Well.

We accept two kinds of short stories in The Ink Well: fictional stories and creative nonfiction stories. We are all about quality, and we expect writers to carefully review their work before posting. Not doing so will result in low curation rewards or posts being ignored. You can see our article on checking your posts for grammar here.

You can find some great articles on story writing in our catalog of storytelling tips.

You can find information about what we are looking for in creative nonfiction stories in this post.

And please be sure to engage in the community by reading and commenting on the work of other community members. We ask everyone who posts in The Ink Well to read and comment on at least two other stories each time you publish one of your own.

Stories should be between 750 - 1500 words in length. Anything shorter is likely to be lacking in development in some areas and curation vote value will be impacted accordingly.

Again, welcome, from The Ink Well team!