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From the competition website: The Ironclad Creative Short Story Competition is for both published and unpublished writers.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 European Writers’ Festival returns for its third edition in 2026, now established as a biennial event. This year’s festival promises to expand and evolve, bringing together a new constellation of distinguished authors from across Europe. The festival will take place from 16-17 May, 2026, at the British Library in London, featuring two full days of...
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...
Join the Victorian Short Story Reading Group to discuss ‘The Idyl of the Island’, by Susan Frances Harrison. The Victorian Short Story Reading Group has regular meetings to explore some of the exciting material from the golden age of the British short story, which began during the latter part of the nineteenth century. Current Theme:...