User blog comment:Shadowswimmer77/Writer's Arena/@comment-4715955-20160714092534/@comment-25148755-20160714103843

So there's a link in one of the page menus for how you want to participate. Basically you send a quick bio with an attached writing sample (I used The Wicker House for mine). If they like what they see they invite you to participate. Contests work on a biweekly basis. Sunday of the first week they give the two participants a weekly topic. One contestant is a person like myself who wrote in, the other is an "arena representative" who has some connection to the site and is typically a more published professional (the guy I'm competing against has a published novel or two). You have ten days to write a story loosely connected to the theme. Then there is a week of voting. Winner is determined with two preselected judges making up 2/3 of the score while the popular vote counts as the other third. It's a neat idea, although I don't think the site gets that much traffic. There is (possibly?) some monetary stuff cause they say they pay $20 for stories but they haven't brought that up to me and I never signed any contract or anything (I'm planning on using the story I wrote for Whitix's contest in that regard)