From the competition website: The aim of the Desperate Literature Short Fiction Prize is both to celebrate the best of new short fiction under 2000 words and to give winners the most visibility possible for their writing. That’s why we’ve teamed up with sixteen different literary and artistic institutions to not only offer cash prizes and writing retreats but also...
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...
From the competition website: The Ironclad Creative Short Story Competition is for both published and unpublished writers.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...
The ENSFR is delighted to welcome representatives of the Commonwealth Short Story Prize for a conversation about the Prize, its history, the 2026 shortlist, and wider discussions around the state of the contemporary short story. The speakers include Razmi Farook (Director-General of the Commonwealth Foundation) and Emma D’Costa (Consultant to the Foundation) who managed the Commonwealth...
CFP: “American Shorts” University of Lisbon, Portugal, October 29-31, 2026