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KADOKAWA's online fiction contest exclusively for high school students, held on the novel-posting site Kakuyomu with a long division (5,000-20,000 characters) and a short division (400-4,999 characters).
Organized by KADOKAWA with the backing of the Yomiuri Shimbun, MEXT and the Tokyo Metropolitan Board of Education. Any genre is welcome (contemporary drama, essay, romance, mystery, horror, SF, fantasy, history, poetry and more). In 2026 the judge was author Shun Ayasaki. Prizes per division in 2026: Grand Prize (certificate, shield, banner and 50,000-yen book card), Yomiuri Shimbun Prize, Theme Prize ('Rain'), about 5 Excellence Prizes (10,000-yen book cards) and about 10 Honourable Mentions (5,000-yen). Winning works appear in the Yomiuri Chukosei Shimbun, and every work that passes the mid-round receives written feedback.