Competition Deadline: Ironclad Short Story Competition, Summer 2026
April 30
From the competition website:
The Ironclad Creative Short Story Competition is for both published and unpublished writers.
We aim to run four short story competitions each year.
Prize winning and shortlisted writers will be published in our July 2026 anthology.
We accept any length of story up to 6k words.
Don’t use the word FOOTPRINT in the title unless it’s alongside a sub-heading or with other words or phrases.
You may use the word in the body of the text, but you don’t have to.
What we expect is that your work to be inspired by the word in some way.
Any way.
A way that might be unexpected…. or entirely expected, but the story takes us somewhere interesting, and grips us.
We’re looking for writers who have exciting voices and can move us. We believe that can happen in any genre of prose.
Please make sure you’ve read the terms and conditions carefully!
Enter here.