Competition Deadline: Scratch A4 Competition
April 25
From the competition website:
Submissions are open for Scratch A4 Summer ’26… until midnight, 25th April!
The Judges are:
Gurnaik Johal – Winner of the Somerset Maugham Award and shortlisted for the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award.
Emily Fish – Emily Fish began her publishing career as an Agent’s Assistant at Aitken Alexander Associates. After three years she moved into editorial at Faber, and now works at Hutchinson Heinemann, an imprint of Penguin Random House.
Tom Conaghan – Publisher at Scratch Books.
Scratch A4 Summer ’26 will be held in Soho on the evening of Saturday 6th June.
To enter our competition to read your story at the Summer ’26 edition of Scratch A4, complete these two simple steps…
1) Buy this Contestant Entry ticket. You will receive a Confirmation email.
2) Forward this Confirmation email – attaching your <1000 word story – to ScratchA4entries@gmail.com
Please take your name off the document itself
Submissions close: Midnight Saturday 25th April
If your story is chosen in the shortlist of six, you will need to be able to get to London that evening – even if you’re not shortlisted, we really do recommend you come along anyway for a night of wonderment and good cheer.
Enter here.