• Competition Deadline: The Letter Review Prize for Short Fiction

    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...

  • Competition Deadline: Anthology Short Story Competition

    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and provide a platform for publication, the Anthology Short Story Competition is open to original and previously unpublished short stories in the English language by a writer of any nationality, living anywhere in the world.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...

  • Competition Deadline: Southlands Creative Writing Competition 2026

    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...

  • Event: Lucy Caldwell & Nell Stevens, Short Story Magic

    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...

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  • Call for Papers: Special Issue on William Faulkner in Journal of the Short Story in English

    JSSE 90 (Spring 2028) Guest edited by: Françoise Buisson,Université de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour Solveig M. Dunkel, Université de Lille Frédérique Spill, Université de Picardie Jules Verne, president of the William Faulkner Society. Deadline for abstract submissions: 30 October 2026 Suggested Proposals The purpose of this special issue of JSSE is thus to examine the challenges faced...