Terms and contributor rights
You retain copyright in your work. These terms explain the limited, non-exclusive licence needed to publish it here, plus the rules for fair voting, moderation and content reporting.
Last updated: 29 July 2026
You retain copyright
You remain the copyright owner of your submission. Submitting to Six Word Story does not transfer ownership to us, prevent you from publishing the work elsewhere, or give us an exclusive right to it.
The non-exclusive licence you grant
By submitting, you grant Six Word Story a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free licence to host, reproduce, display, format and distribute the submission, with your chosen attribution, as part of operating and promoting the website and its editorial activities. The licence allows reasonable technical changes such as resizing, line wrapping and formatting, and minor editorial corrections to spacing, capitalization, punctuation or category that do not materially change the creative work.
We may display an excerpt or image of the submission in Six Word Story newsletters, search previews and Six Word Story or Six Word Wonder social posts that promote the site, its collections or the form. We may allow hosting, email, social-media and other service providers to process the work only as needed for those purposes.
Books and separate publication
The licence above does not give Six Word Story permission to include your work in a paid book or anthology. Any such publication requires a separate agreement or permission. Submitting here also does not enter the Six Word Wonder Contest.
Correction and removal
You may request a correction or removal through our content reporting route. Once a verified removal request is actioned, we will stop displaying the work on the site within a reasonable period. Copies may remain briefly in backups, search caches, social posts already published, or material shared by other people outside our control.
What you promise
You confirm that the submission is your original work and that you have the right to post it. Do not submit copied work, private information, threats, unlawful content, targeted abuse, spam or material that infringes another person’s rights.
Moderation
We may reject, hide or remove submissions, votes or accounts at our discretion, particularly where they appear abusive, manipulated, unlawful or spectacularly unrelated to six words. Our public editorial standards explain the principles used in ordinary moderation.
Voting
Vote once per story and do not automate, buy, coordinate or otherwise manipulate votes. Rankings may change as we improve fraud controls and the ranking formula. See how the rankings work.
Not a contest entry
Submitting to this community site does not enter the Six Word Wonder Contest. The contest has a separate entry process and separate rules.
Reporting content
Anyone may report suspected plagiarism, incorrect attribution, private information, harmful material or another editorial concern through our content reporting route. Reports are reviewed under our editorial standards. A report does not automatically require removal, but rankings and popularity never override copyright, safety or attribution concerns.
Availability and liability
The service is provided as available. We cannot promise uninterrupted access, permanent publication, a particular ranking or universal recognition of your genius. To the extent permitted by law, Six Word Story is not liable for indirect loss arising from use of the site.
Contact
Questions about these terms can be sent to hello@sixwordwonder.com.