From the competition's website:   Since 2016, Aurora has provided a platform for writers, offering a prize that is truly national (and international) with its heart in the East Midlands....

Rose Keating celebrates the publication of her much anticipated debut short story collection, Oddbody. Rose will be reading from the collection, before being in conversation with Jordan from the bookshop,...

From the competition website: The Bournemouth Writing Prize Celebrating 10 Years of Outstanding Writing Submissions open April 2025 for the Tenth Anniversary Edition of the Bournemouth Writing Prize. This year, we’re celebrating a decade of...

Forced to leave her native Hungary by the 1956 suppression of the Hungarian Uprising, Ágota Kristóf took up residence in Switzerland and began writing in French. Most famous for her Notebook...

Argentinian author, Samanta Schweblin, celebrates the UK publication of her latest short story collection, Good and Evil and Other Stories (translated by Megan McDowell). Samanta will be in conversation about the...