Time Police Writing Competition
Regulation 847.6 Has Been Breached
It’s time for another fun writing competition. This time we want you to invent the TIME POLICE Regulation 847.6, then write the incident that caused the rule to exist.
Tone: Deadpan bureaucratic logic meets total time-travel disaster.
How It Works
Write Regulation 847.6 (overly specific, official sounding).
Write the timeline incident that forced the Time Police to create it.
Show the chaos escalating logically but absurdly.
Style Guidelines
Formal report tone
Ridiculous problem treated seriously
Increasingly specific details
Bureaucracy making everything worse
Your Entry Should Include
A named officer or department
A time-travel mistake
Escalation into disaster
The creation of Regulation 847.6
Recommended length: 400–800 words
Minimum: 200 words
Maximum: 1,200 words
Example Regulation
Regulation 847.6: Officers are prohibited from scheduling overlapping historical revolutions without prior clearance from Administrative Chronology and a completed Form 847.6-C (Revolution Sequencing).
So get your thinking caps on, write your regulation and then a short report explaining why it was created.
The prize will be a £50 gift card from Bookshop.org
Closing date is 30th April and the winner will be chosen by reader poll from 1st - 12th of May with the winner announced in the May 13th newsletter.
CLICK HERE to enter