2020 Theme

The theme is “They're frightened of jumping, in case they survive.” Your story does not have to explicitly contain that line, but it or the spirit of it must play a significant role in the story.

Thank you for your interest. Unfortunately, we did not receive enough entries to make this year’s competition a success. As such, we have cancelled the 2020 releases. We will re-evaluate to consider if we should move forward next year or not.

Click here to read the full official rules.

The Judging Process

We at It’s All Been Done Presents are committed to a fair and unbiased judging process. Our contest is currently open to people associated with the network and others who know people associated with the network (as well as the general public), so steps are taken to ensure anonymity of the entries and keep those that have a stake in the winners separated from the judging process. Any questions or suggestions for improving our process in the future can be directed to judging@iabdpresents.com

Read the details of our 2019 judging process here.

NEW for 2020: A designated independent person will separate authors from titles. This person will not be involved in the contest as a judge, writer, or in any other way beyond distributing stories to Jerome without author info so that Jerome can blindly judge them himself and distribute to judges. There will also likely be a two-round process this year, though multiple judges will look at every story.

2020 Judges: Vivian Lermond, Nikki Smith, Ben Tucker, Jerome Wetzel











2019 Stories

Theme: “Drove downtown in the rain, nine-thirty on a Tuesday night.”