• Competition Deadline: The Bridport Short Story Prize

    From the competition website: One of the largest short story prizes, the winning story features in our anthology, so you will see your words in print, maybe for the first time. That’s not all. It opens up further opportunities where your story needs to have been published. You will be invited to our awards celebration...

  • Competition Deadline: The MTP Short Story Competition

    From the competition website: In our quest to offer authors a stage for their work, we are excited to be hosting our 2026 Short Story Competition. First Prize:      £1000 (GBP) Second Prize: £500 (GBP) Third Prize:     £250 (GBP) 5 Runners-up Prizes of £50 (GBP) Prizewinning stories will be published in the MTP 2026 Anthology (print book...

  • Competition Deadline: V.S. Pritchett Short Story Prize

    From the competition website:   The RSL V.S. Pritchett Short Story Prize seeks to find the best unpublished short story of the year. The 2027 V.S. Pritchett Short Story Prize is now open for entry until Monday 22 June at 5pm. Please ensure you have read and understood the V.S. Pritchett Prize Eligibility and Guidelines prior to entering.  ...

  • Competition Deadline: Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize

    From the competition website:   The 2026 Queen Mary  Wasafiri New Writing Prize is now open. The seventeenth edition of the prize is now open for original entries and entries in translation across Fiction, Life Writing, and Poetry.   Enter here.

  • Competition Deadline: Fiction Factory Short Story Competition

    From the competition website:   Top prize- £500 Length of story: max 3,000 words Entries should be as a Word document. All types of stories are welcome (excluding Children’s and Young Adult Fiction). Entry Fee: £7.00 (£13 for 2 stories, £18 for 3 stories) Entry fee plus optional critique: £35.00 Winning stories will be published on this...