As you may have heard, the Stacker News Fiction Month starts in a few days. During the month of August all fiction less than 4000 words posted to ~BooksAndArticles will automatically be entered to win 100k sats with 10 runners-up receiving 10k sats each.

This week's word-of-mouth Wednesday challenge is to share the word about Stacker News Fiction Month with the rest of the world. Go find your fiction forums and writer's groups, share the contest with your friends who dabble in stories, or just post about it on other social media. I'm particularly interested in ballsy efforts to get good writers to post a story here.

Do you know Lyn Alden? I heard she's working on a piece of fiction, maybe you can convince her to post a bit of it here.

Do you know Lionel Shriver? Bitcoiners love her. Perhaps a well placed tweet or email would nudge her in the way of writing a little something for fiction month.

Do you like William Vollmann? He's bonkers--and probably the best writer I've ever read. I'd love to see an effort to reach out to him and get him to post something here.

JK Rowling has asked about bitcoin before. Who's gonna ask her to write the Harry-as-an-old-wizard-trying-to-fight-the-new-young-wizard-who-he-thought-was-his-protege-and-who-is-clearly-more-powerful-than-him-but-now-is-turning-evil vignette?

This is your call to take a leap and try to convince that writer you love to post on SN.

Most exciting attempt before high noon Texas time on Tuesday, August 5, 2025 gets the 10k sats bounty.

To inspire you, here is a picture of William Shakespeare wearing a cowboy hat.