Possible source of "income"

So my internship is still in the unpaid stage and my mom is almost to the point of threatening me to get a job. I'm not happy with either point. So I've been online searching for writing contests that I can enter that have cash prizes. She is always, more so lately, telling me to enter some of my pieces in because they are so good. I think mother's are supposed to say things like this. I consider my writing mediocre at best. I know the one thing I always get complimented on is my characters' names. They are always the most unique, and most I just alter from everyday words. Mm like Pacisune, one of my fox demon characters for example. I just added an "i" and "e" to the store name "PacSun" (Pacific Sunwear). It's such an easy process.

I've been looking at some short story and poetry contests since none of my larger novel projects are anywhere near being done. I started a collection of short stories and poetry last year titled "Feathers under the Torii" in which all the pieces focus around Japanese culture and the Shinto beliefs. No Haikus though, I've never been good at that type of poetry format. The short story I'm working on right now is about an older brother taking his two younger sisters to a Shinto shrine along a mountain side and then to visit their mother's grave/headstone at the cemetery. In Shinto practices, there aren't too many cemeteries, most are Buddhist but I was able to find an image of a Shinto cemetery with funeral stands, which I assume is the equivalent to headstones or grave markers. I'm going to be using the Tsubaki Okami Yashiro or "Tsubaki Grand Shrine" located at the foot of Mount Takayama and Mount Hikiyama upstream on the Suzuka River in the Mie Prefecture, Japan which is pictured in the photo below. I'm also working on my Ave (my alter ego) story - either the scene where she learns her best friend got into a car accident after drinking and driving (direct mirror with what happened with Pom) or a scene from her first few days during her new internship.

Hopefully I'll see the fruits of my labors. I'll post the finished version of the short story(s) as well. I need to come up with a title for it too.