// ABOUT

WHAT THIS IS

Glitchcraft Arena is a short-fiction arena platform. Writers pay a small entry fee, submit a raw manuscript, and compete in rounds of peer reading and AI-graded feedback. Winners take real cash. The best of the best are invited to Demo Day, our quarterly Hollywood showcase for producers and showrunners.

We're not a publishing house. We're not a literary magazine. We're not a workshop. We're a brutal, transparent ladder from a blinking cursor to a packed room of buyers in Los Angeles.

How it works

  1. Pick an arena. Choose your lane: read for free (limited seats, first come, first served) or submit a story (pay the entry fee — 75% feeds the prize pool).
  2. Writers submit once. A moderator reviews for rules + an AI integrity pass. Writers never read — focus stays on the manuscript.
  3. Readers read every round and leave feedback. Our AI grades that feedback for insight, specificity, and constructiveness.
  4. Top writers (combined moderator + reader score) win cash. Top readers win cash. Top stories in Hollywood-demo arenas get a Demo Day invite.

New here? Read the Manifesto. Then enter the arena.