Shortly after the pandemic lockdown Sara Baume came across a painting in a pop-up exhibition in a renovated West Cork shed. Fascinated by it, she became determined to make the painter’s acquaintance – although a native of North Dakota the artist Mollie Douthit was now living and working in rural Ireland. Bonded by a common...
From the competition website: The Letter Review Prize is an internationally celebrated event, offered every four months in the categories of Short Fiction, Poetry, and Books. We publish our winners, maintain shortlists, submit to The Pushcart, and award over $16,000 USD annually to writers, meaning our prize is among the highest paying literary prizes administered by a literary...
From the competition website: Established to recognise and encourage creative writing and provide a platform for publication, the Anthology Short Story Competition is open to original and previously unpublished short stories in the English language by a writer of any nationality, living anywhere in the world. There is no restriction on theme or style. Stories submitted must...
From the competition website: Southlands Arts Centre is excited to announce the launch of our annual creative writing competition. We are open for submissions from Sunday, 22nd February. We are taking entries from over 18s and under 18s. There are life writing and fiction categories. Continuing with our tradition the fiction category is themed. This year’s...
BBC National Short Story Award-winning Lucy Caldwell (author of Openings and These Days) and Nell Stevens (author of The Original and Somerset Maugham Award-winning Mrs Gaskell & Me) are both masters at catapulting you into characters’ lives, conjuring entirely new worlds in a matter of pages. In this conversation they discuss their new story collections, Devotions and The Good Time, talking stories of love, grief, haunted...