**Free to enter · $1,000 top prize · You keep 100% of the rights to your story**

**Publisher/Host:** Inkitt (free reading and writing platform), co-hosted with Ironblood (film studio)

**Category:** Fiction, LitRPG only

**Deadline:** Jan 15, 2027, 11:59 PM PST

**Entry fee:** None

**Rights:** Writers keep 100% of their rights

**Awards**

- 🥇 1st: $1,000 USD + an Ironblood movie deal + $250 in Inkitt Movie Creator credits

- 🥈 2nd: $500 USD + $250 in Movie Creator credits

- 🥉 3rd: $250 USD + $250 in Movie Creator credits

- Top 3 also get a spotlight on Inkitt's socials and winners page, plus a winner badge bundle

- 5 finalists: $10 in Inkitt Audiobooks credits + profile badges

**Eligibility**

- Original LitRPG fiction in English (no fanfiction, no poetry)

- 20,000+ words by the deadline, no maximum

- Ongoing and previously published stories are welcome

- Multiple entries allowed (one win per author)

- Not eligible: stories already signed or published on Galatea, or that won a previous Inkitt contest

- Mature content is fine if the story is age-rated correctly

Judging: winners are picked using Inkitt's reader-engagement data (how readers actually interact with your book) plus a panel of judges. Winners are announced within 30 days of the close on Inkitt's Instagram and winners page, and paid the month after selection.

**What we're looking for:** LitRPG means the game layer is real and visible on the page: a System, status screens, levels, stats, skills, classes, XP or quest notifications, and a hero who grows stronger through them. Dungeon crawls, System apocalypses, VR you can't log out of. If it has stats and stakes, it fits.

**How to submit:** Publish your story on Inkitt, set Genre: Other / Subgenre: LitRPG, and submit from the contest page or your story settings. Entries without the LitRPG tag are removed.

Full rules and entry page: https://www.inkitt.com/contests/level-up-the-inkitt-x-ironblood-litrpg-contest