Voltage Verse 2025
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VOLTAGE VERSE
The future of creative writing is here. Join the first-ever competition celebrating the collaboration between human creativity and artificial intelligence.
Open to All
Anyone can participate in this groundbreaking competition
AI-Assisted
Showcase human-AI collaboration in creative writing
Expert Judges
Professional review and recognition for winners
Competition Categories
Choose your path and showcase your storytelling skills in our two exciting categories
Requirements:
- First chapter submission
- Up to 5,000 words maximum
- No minimum word count
- Fiction only, any genre
- DOCX or PDF format
Requirements:
- 5-10 pages of screenplay
- Include a compelling logline
- Standard screenplay format
- Fiction only, any genre
- PDF format required
Submission Guidelines
Everything you need to know to submit your AI-assisted masterpiece
Your submission must be AI-assisted (not 100% AI generated). You'll need to include a short paragraph explaining how you used AI in your writing process.
- Fiction submissions only
- No NSFW content accepted
- No genre restrictions
- Anonymous review process
- No identifying info in documents
Submissions will be accepted through a dedicated post on the Writing With AI subreddit starting August 14.
Meet the Judges
Industry experts who will evaluate your submissions with expertise and fairness
Novel Category Judges
A bestselling indie author and CEO of Future Fiction Press & Future Fiction Academy. With 25+ titles and a decade in digital-first publishing, she pioneers AI-assisted workflows that empower authors to write faster and smarter. As a judge, she brings strategic insight, craft expertise, and a passion for helping writers thrive.
An optimist, a science fiction writer, and founder of Sudowrite, the AI writing app for novelists. His fiction has been published by Escape Pod and Tor.com, non-fiction by Random House, and his projects have appeared in The New Yorker, New York Times, Rolling Stone, MTV, CNN, BBC, and more. He is a husband, a father, a son, and a friend to all dogs.
A Professor in the Practice of English Education at Vanderbilt University’s Peabody College; her research examines how digital and multimodal composition informs the development of pre-service teachers’ writing pedagogy. Additionally, she explores the use of digital and social media in young adult literature. She teaches writing methods courses that focus on digital and multimodal composition and young adult literature courses that explore race, class, gender, and sexual identity in young adult texts. Her current research focus has three strands: AI in writing, AI in Teacher Education, and Verse Novels in Young Adult Literature She is currently the Coordinator of the Secondary Education English Education program in the Department of Teaching and Learning at Vanderbilt University’s Peabody College.
A storyteller, systems thinker, and founder of Plotdrive, an AI-powered word processor built to help writers finish what matters. A former pro poker player and VR game director, he now designs tools that turn sparks into structure for writers chasing big creative visions.
A catholic ex-transhumanist pursuing sainthood through philosophy, theology, and ultimately, all things that can be written. My work focuses on AI ethics and building the Pro-Life Grand Monument while I work to define what “writing with AI," means. Guided by Studiositas, I aspire to die as a deep thinker, wrestling with the faith for the highest calling imaginable.
Screenwriting Category Judges
A screenwriter, filmmaker, and AI storytelling innovator blending historical drama, sci-fi, and thriller genres. A Writers Guild of Canada member, he penned scripts like Awake and Whirlwind, drawing on over 15 years experience from indie films to sets like Suits and The Boys as an AD. As founder of Synapz Productions and co-founder of Saga, he pioneers storytelling with cutting-edge tech**.**
An experienced Israeli screenwriter and director, has written and directed multiple films and series. He lectures on screenwriting and specializes in writing and translating books and screenplays using AI tools.
Ex-tech Product Manager who finally gave in to his childhood dream of writing. Runs the Writing With AI subreddit and have been scribbling stories since the age of 12. Now deep into Soulless, his second screenplay. Dreaming of bridging the gap between technology and art.
Fred Graver is a 4-time Emmy winner (Cheers, In Living Color, Jon Stewart) with deep AI experience from MIT and Microsoft. He works with writers, producers and studios to apply AI tech to their process. His Substack "The AI Screenwriter's Studio" teaches practical skills that make writers valuable in the AI era. He is uniquely positioned to translate complex AI into actionable creative strategies.
Our Sponsors
Powered by industry leaders who believe in the future of AI-assisted creativity
Sudowrite kicked off the AI writing revolution in 2020 with the release of its groundbreaking AI authoring tools. Today, Sudowrite continues to innovate with easy-to-use and best-of-breed writing tools that help professional authors tell better stories, faster, and in their own voice. Sudowrite's team of writers and technologists are committed to empowering authors and the power of great stories.
Sahil Lavingia: founded Gumroad and wrote The Minimalist Entrepreneur.
Future Fiction Academy teaches authors to harness AI responsibly to plan, draft, and publish novels at lightning speed. Our workshops, software, and community demystify cutting-edge tools so creativity stays center stage. We’re sponsoring to showcase what AI-augmented storytelling can achieve and to support emerging voices.
Saga is an AI-powered writing room for filmmakers, guiding creators from logline to screenplay, storyboard, and AI previz. Our mission is to democratize Hollywood production, empowering passionate creators with blockbuster-quality tools on affordable budgets, expanding creative diversity and access through innovative generative AI models
Plotdrive is an AI-native word processor designed for flow and finish. Writers use prompt buttons, smart memory, and an in-document teaching agent to turn ideas into books. We support this competition because we believe writing software should teach, not just generate and help people finish what they start.
Novel Mage empowers writers of all backgrounds to bring their stories to life with AI. We believe in amplifying human imagination not replacing it and we're building tools that make writing less lonely, more fun, and deeply personal. We're proud to support this competition celebrating a new kind of authorship where tech supports creativity.
🏆 Prizes & Recognition
Substantial rewards await our winners, thanks to our generous sponsors
Novel Category
$550 Cash Prize!
- FREE 1 year Sudowrite subscription
- FREE 1 year Future Fiction Academy Mastermind
- FREE 1 year PlotDrive subscription
- FREE 1 year Novelmage subscription
- Subreddit feature + special flair
- FREE 6 months Sudowrite subscription
- FREE 6 months Future Fiction Academy Mastermind
- FREE 6 months PlotDrive subscription
- FREE 6 months Novelmage subscription
- Subreddit feature + special flair
- FREE 3 months Sudowrite subscription
- FREE 3 months Future Fiction Academy Mastermind
- FREE 3 months PlotDrive subscription
- FREE 3 months Novelmage subscription
- Subreddit feature + special flair
📝 Featured in subreddit winners post
Screenwriting Category
$550 Cash Prize!
- FREE 6 months Saga subscription
- Subreddit feature + special flair
- FREE 3 months Saga subscription
- Subreddit feature + special flair
- FREE 1 month Saga subscription
- Subreddit feature + special flair
📝 Featured in subreddit winners post
Thanks to our amazing sponsors: Future Fiction Academy, Plotdrive, Sahil Lavingia, Sudowrite, Novelmage, and Saga!
Ready to Make History?
Be part of the world's first AI-assisted writing competition. Show the world what's possible when human creativity meets artificial intelligence.
Submissions open August 14, 2025 on r/WritingWithAI