Competition Deadline: The Observer / Redstone Press Postcard Story Prize 2026
September 1
From the competition website:
Open to writers of all ages and backgrounds.
A postcard is a simple thing: image on one side, writing on the other. But the relationship between image and text can be complex and teasing. Postcards always tell a story of some kind and are often glimpses into larger stories, inklings of whole lives…
We invite you to submit an imaginative short story, piece of text, or poem (up to 250 words) in response to a postcard image. The text need not necessarily correspond to the image on the postcard (it may even be more interesting if it doesn’t, as with many of the postcards we do send).
Judging panel: Julian Barnes, Tom Gatti, Jan Carson, Ardashir Vakil
Enter here.