Aito Voice Books — Open Competition 2026

Your story.
Your rules.
Your voice.

A writing competition that breaks every rule in the book. AI-assisted, human-judged, and every entry gets published. Because good writing deserves to be read.

247
Entries so far
£2,500
Prize fund
5–8k
Word count
100%
Entries published

What Makes This Different

We broke the rules.
On purpose.

Most writing competitions were built for a world that no longer exists. We built this one for the world we're actually in.

AI is welcome here

You can use AI to help write your story. Declare it, embrace it. The craft is in how you direct it, not whether you did.

Your characters speak

The Aito writing agent voices your characters through ElevenLabs. Hear your dialogue before you submit. Know if it lands.

Every entry gets published

Nobody disappears into silence. Every submission goes live on the platform. Readers decide what moves them, independently of the judges.

Real readers, not gatekeepers

A reading group of ordinary people judges the entries, not a panel of literary professionals. Genuine response over credentialled opinion.

The Prompted category

Write one prompt. Let AI write the story. Submit the prompt alongside the entry. Because curation and direction are skills too.

The AI interview podcast

Shortlisted writers get interviewed by the Aito agent. The podcast goes live. Your story reaches an audience beyond the competition.


The Voice Room

Hear your characters
come alive.

The Aito agent assigns distinct voices to every character in your story. Press play. Hear whether your dialogue actually sounds like the person you imagined. These are real ElevenLabs voices, not a mockup.

From "The Cartographer's Daughter" by Sarah M.

Elara (narrator)
Marcus (antagonist)
The Elder
Press play to listen
Speaking as
Elara — warm, measured, 30s
"The signal didn't come from deep space; it came from three floors down in an forgotten basement lab. When the display finally blinked to life, it wasn't just data stream on a screen, it was proof. Proof that everything we thought we understood about human potential was only the beginning of the story."
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Your opening is strong. The detail about the compasses and the ink that bleeds in rain does real work. It tells us who this person is without stating it.

One question: you tell us the father disappeared, but we do not yet feel the weight of that. Is the distance deliberate, or does Elara need to carry it more visibly?
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Upload your manuscript and let Aito read it before you submit. We accept .docx, .pdf, .txt, and .pages files.

Not sure which to choose? Standard: you wrote the story, with or without AI help. Prompted: one human prompt, full AI output, zero editing. The prompt itself is your entry.
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Aito Voice Books — 2026

Competition closes 31 January 2027  ·  Reading group review: February 2027

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