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To mark this special occasion, the NOVELOUS Worlds contest calls on all aspiring writers to craft unforgettable narratives. The top 10 finalists will earn a spot on the NOVELOUS app, bringing their stories to a global audience! This year’s contest is all about bold, gripping concepts that hook readers instantly. And what stories are more powerful than love and the end of the world?
Think you have what it takes? The submission window for this contest is from February 10, 2025, to May 7, 2025.
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Ryuuto Iwasaki is moving to Tokyo to attend his dream university – part of his vision of a tranquil college life. Suddenly, his plan is turned on its head from a former student’s burnt ramen and a simple question: “Iwasaki-kun, how’s your English?” With that, he is placed in the international ...
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Yani is a Godsinger, a special class of people who can link themselves to the AI gods that watch over her world and hear them when they speak. She loves her god, Imon, more than life. When her status as a Godsinger is threatened by a surprise arranged marriage, Yani must choose how far she's will...
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For six years, Valeria Evernight has survived in a world left empty by the Vanishing, tirelessly preparing a ritual to find her lost mother. But when she finally completes it, the spell doesn’t bring her mother back; it summons Caelum, a boy from another world who is just as lost as she is. Worse...
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One day, Nicholas wakes up to a girl sleeping by his side. This mystery girl, Elerina, mysteriously appears beside him. She comes from a world that is currently at war. After becoming her husband, he commits to supporting her in any way he can.
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When all over Earth, chunks of reality start disappearing from existence in mysterious events known as extirpations, Dr. Ken Soma finds himself at a crossroads: should he divulge the fate of the world, or keep it to himself? His ex-wife, Dr. Irina Alexandrova, Russian expat, decides for him wh...
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A pandemic of a mysterious disease, completely harmless to humans but deadly to plants, begins rapidly destroying all flora in nature, causing a significant drop in the oxygen levels of Earth's atmosphere. According to scientists' calculations, if the current rate of oxygen depletion continues, h...
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Ryūka Tatsuhara always dreamt of leaving her boring hometown and starting a new life in Tokyo. But then strange doors called Daimen appeared, bringing kaijus onto Earth. One of them, a massive kaiju known as the Daikaiju, arrived in Ryūka’s town looking for a host to carry his child. When he c...
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“I shall live to see an Age of Magic renewed.” This is the promise of Lavenza, an apostate who wanders the land in search of ancient mana. “I shall live to see my father’s armor reforged.” This is the promise of Deme, a child who delves in dungeons in search of Rafta, the withering flowe...
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What happens when a goddess of creation meets a normal teenage boy without power and fall in love for first time.
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Reiji Nakamura thinks teenage love is all nonsense… until he sits next to Aika, a strange girl who talks to plants and believes love begins with sock riddles. Things get weird when he discovers Aika is writing a love story with him as the protagonist… and what she writes starts happening in re...
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Life isn’t meant to be simple; it’s never meant to be fair. Things just don’t happen the way you want it to, but you were not meant to die not like this! We were born two worlds apart. A foolish demon warrior and her naive human prince. SCREW this star-crossed lover bullshit I refuse! W...
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In a floating city ruled by God, devotion is law, and identity is earned. Angelique, a devout Sister, has spent her life striving for the role of Golden Sister. But instead, she is forcibly promoted as a Silver Sister, bound to Isaiah, a reckless Seraphim warrior with the highest kill—and death—c...
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Lily knows she can take care of herself – but can she bring hope to a dying world? The earth has sickened. Centuries of war and greed have transformed a once resource-rich planet into vast graveyards, dotted by settlements of stubborn survivors who are forced to horde electricity and clean...
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One morning, an otherworldly voice boomed across the globe, accompanied by surreal, apocalyptic visions that warned of a judgment coming in just 365 days. Society proceeds to drown in panic and denial. Seventeen-year-old Arata, a reserved high schooler from rural Minakasa, realizes his visions...
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Blue and Rose returned home. As for Gülnihal, Once upon a time... Sometime, Somewhere... When reality begins to fade, and dreams begin to change... 青い薔薇 過去の世界から 魔法の現実の恩恵を通じて
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A cryptic message is broadcast from the future: the planet is destroyed by a single person in one year. But how, or who is responsible, isn't mentioned. Dusty, like everyone else, hears this message. But unlike the others panicing over their imminent doom, he decides to take matters into his ...
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When the peaceful Furyu Clan is destroyed, Renn Furyu vows revenge on both the Bushi and the mysterious Asura behind the massacre. Believed dead, his sister Koki is taken in by the Bushi and seeks to end the cycle of hatred—before her brother’s wrath consumes everything.
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Raymond is humanity's contradictory weapon in a world devastated by a zombie apocalypse brought on by perverse ambition rather than illness. As the only successful outcome of the "Hyper Human Design" experiment, he is a soldier who has been given immortality and the ability to regenerate, only to...
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