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SUMMARY:Competition Deadline: Zoetrope All-Story Short Fiction Contest
DESCRIPTION:From the competition website: \n  \nThe Zoetrope: All-Story Short Fiction Competition is a catalyst for writing careers. Recent winners and honorable mentions have subsequently been recognized among the finalists for the PEN/Hemingway Award\, the National Book Award\, and the Pulitzer Prize. \nWe welcome short fiction of no more than five thousand words. Entries are vetted by a team of professional readers\, and awards are adjudicated by our guest judge. \nFirst prize is $1\,000 and publication at the magazine’s website as a special online supplement to the subsequent Spring edition; second prize is $500; and third prize is $250. \nAdditionally\, the three prizewinners and seven honorable mentions are considered for representation by participating talent agencies: William Morris Endeavor; CAA; the Wylie Agency; Aragi\, Inc.; Regal Literary; Dunow\, Carlson & Lerner Literary Agency; Markson Thoma Literary Agency; Inkwell Management; Sterling Lord Literistic; Aitken Alexander Associates; the Book Group; the Gernert Company; Janklow & Nesbit Associates; and the Georges Borchardt Literary Agency. \nAll stories submitted to the competition are considered for publication in the print edition. \n  \nEnter here.
URL:https://ensfr.univ-angers.fr/event/competition-deadline-zoetrope-all-story-short-fiction-contest/
CATEGORIES:Competition Deadline
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261004
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SUMMARY:Competition Deadline: Bath Flash Fiction Award
DESCRIPTION:From the competition website: \n  \nThree rounds per year: March to June\, July to October\, and November to February. Full details in the rules. In summary: \n\n300 word limit.\n£1000 prize for the winner\, £300 second and £100 third. Two commendations £30 each.\n50 longlisted entrants offered publication in our end of year print and digital anthology. Those accepting receive a free print copy.\nFlash Award judge\, Jo Gatford\, shortlists to 20 and chooses the winning\, second\, third\, and two commended fictions.\nThe current Flash Fiction Award round closes Midnight GMT 4 October 2026.\nWinners will be announced by 1 November 2026 on our Winners pages.\nEnter the Flash Fiction Award here online.\n\n  \nEnter here.
URL:https://ensfr.univ-angers.fr/event/competition-deadline-bath-flash-fiction-award/
CATEGORIES:Competition Deadline
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SUMMARY:Competition Deadline: The London Magazine Short Story Prize 2026
DESCRIPTION:From the competition website: \n  \nSince 1732\, The London Magazine has published short stories by some of the most well-regarded writers in English\, from Jean Rhys and Raymond Carver to Virginia Woolf and V. S. Pritchett. Our annual Short Story Prize seeks out new voices to join this distinguished literary history. \nEstablished to support and celebrate emerging literary talent\, the prize offers writers from around the world an opportunity for publication and recognition. We are looking for previously unpublished stories of no more than 4\,000 words. \nWe are delighted to announce that The London Magazine Short Story Prize 2026 will be judged by Camilla Grudova\, Tim MacGabhann and Ayşegül Savaş. \nThe winning stories will be published in future issues of The London Magazine. Winners will also receive cash prizes and be celebrated at a prize-giving ceremony at the end of the year. \n  \nEnter here.
URL:https://ensfr.univ-angers.fr/event/competition-deadline-the-london-magazine-short-story-prize-2026/
CATEGORIES:Competition Deadline
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SUMMARY:ENSFR Event: The Short Story Salon
DESCRIPTION:The Short Story Salon returns with an evening of readings and conversation from three exciting contemporary writers: Elsa Court\, Kim Wiltshire\, and Georgina Parfitt.  \nJoin us online on 19 October at 18.00 (BST) / 19.00 (CEST) as each writer shares a short story and discusses their creative practice. A thoughtful\, intimate online gathering for anyone passionate about the art of the short story. \nHow to join: click on the Teams link below.
URL:https://ensfr.univ-angers.fr/event/ensfr-event-the-short-story-salon/
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SUMMARY:Competition Deadline: FFF Competition #36
DESCRIPTION:From the competition website: \n  \nSubmit a flash fiction piece of between 100 and 300 words\, on any theme.\n1 Winner will receive £200.00 and publication\n2 Highly Commended will receive £100.00 and publication\n3 Shortlisted will receive £80.00 and publication \nJudge: TBC \nThe closing date for FFF Competition Thirty-Six is\nFriday\, 23rd October 2026 at 10:00 pm ( UK Time). \n  \nEnter here.
URL:https://ensfr.univ-angers.fr/event/competition-deadline-fff-competition-36/
CATEGORIES:Competition Deadline
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261024
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SUMMARY:Competition Deadline: Scratch A4 Competition
DESCRIPTION:From the competition website: \n  \n​​Scratch A4 is a bi-annual Short Story competition for <1000 word stories. The six shortlisted writers are invited to read their stories at the amazing Scratch A4 final. ​​​​ \nSubmissions are opening in September for Scratch A4 Winter ’26! The window runs from September 12 until midnight\, 24th October. \n  \nEnter here.
URL:https://ensfr.univ-angers.fr/event/competition-deadline-scratch-a4-competition-2/
CATEGORIES:Competition Deadline
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SUMMARY:Event: Classics Book Club at Hatchards\, Piccadilly; Japanese Ghost Stories
DESCRIPTION:The Classics Book Club meets on the first Thursday of each month here at Hatchards\, Piccadilly. This book club will instead take place one week ahead of schedule\, on Thursday\, 29th October. \nThis month’s book is: “Japanese Ghost Stories” by Lafcadio Hearn. \nThe dead wreak revenge on the living\, paintings come alive\, spectral brides possess mortal men and a priest devours human flesh in these chilling Japanese ghost stories retold by a master of the supernatural. \nLafcadio Hearn drew on the phantoms and ghouls of traditional Japanese folklore – including the headless ‘rokuro-kubi’\, the monstrous goblins ‘jikininki’ or the faceless ‘mujina’ who stalk lonely neighbourhoods – and infused them with his own memories of his haunted childhood in nineteenth-century Ireland to create these terrifying tales of striking and eerie power. Today they are regarded in Japan as classics in their own right. \nTickets include £3 off the purchase of next month’s Book Club book. \n 
URL:https://ensfr.univ-angers.fr/event/classics-book-club-at-hatchards-piccadilly-japanese-ghost-stories/
LOCATION:Hatchards\, 187 Piccadilly\, London\, W1J 9LE
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SUMMARY:Call for Papers: Special Issue on William Faulkner in Journal of the Short Story in English
DESCRIPTION:JSSE 90 (Spring 2028) \nGuest edited by: \n\nFrançoise Buisson\,Université de Pau et des Pays de l’Adour\nSolveig M. Dunkel\, Université de Lille\nFrédérique Spill\, Université de Picardie Jules Verne\, president of the William Faulkner Society.\n\n\nDeadline for abstract submissions: 30 October 2026 \n\n\nSuggested Proposals\nThe purpose of this special issue of JSSE is thus to examine the challenges faced by Faulkner as a short story writer\, especially—but not exclusively: \n\nthe status of the short story in Faulkner’s work and its reception\neconomic imperatives and consumerism\nexperimentation and short fiction as “a creative writing workshop”\nFaulkner’s play with the traditional forms\, conventions and contents of the genre: narrative technique\, stylistic devices and strategies\, punctuation and typography\nFaulkner’s phenomenological writing\, his writing of sensation\nellipsis and the unspeakable; condensation and proliferation\nFaulkner’s use of different chronotopes and his handling of chronology\nmeta/short fiction and the mise en abyme of short story writing\nthe Southern Gothic\norality\, cock-and-bull stories and tall tales\, short fiction and humor\, Frontier humor\nthe ecopoetic dimension in wilderness short stories\ninitiation in the short story and for the short story teller\nchildhood and children as story-tellers and/or characters\nmargins in the short story: the community and the individual; race and gender relations for example\nqueer Faulkner
URL:https://ensfr.univ-angers.fr/event/call-for-papers-special-issue-on-william-faulkner-in-journal-of-the-short-story-in-english/
CATEGORIES:Call for Papers
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SUMMARY:Competition Deadline: The Bedford Competition 2026
DESCRIPTION:From the competition website: \n  \n\nChance of winning up to £2000 in the short story and poetry main prizes.\nSeparate short story and poetry prize winning categories for those aged 17-25 and for local Bedford residents.\n\n  \nEnter here.
URL:https://ensfr.univ-angers.fr/event/competition-deadline-the-bedford-competition-2026/
CATEGORIES:Competition Deadline
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SUMMARY:ENSFR Event: Short Story Anthologies Roundtable
DESCRIPTION:This ENSFR event brings together leading voices in contemporary short‑story scholarship. Chaired by Elke D’hoker\, this session features Paul Delaney (Trinity College\, Ireland) and Aleix Tura‑Vecino (University of Glasgow\, UK)\, both of whom have recently published major studies on the short‑story anthology: Anthologisation and Irish Short Fiction: Magnitudes of Telling (Routledge 2025) and The Short Story Anthology and Women’s Writing (Routledge 2025). \nEach speaker will discuss the research behind their books — from the evolution of anthology practices to the cultural\, political and editorial questions that shape how short stories are collected and presented. Together\, the panel will explore current debates in anthology studies and reflect on where the field is heading.  \nTo join this online event\, please click on the Teams link below.
URL:https://ensfr.univ-angers.fr/event/ensfr-event-short-story-anthologies-roundtable/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261201
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SUMMARY:Submission Deadline: Special Issue of Short Fiction in Theory & Practice | Writing Across Languages: Anglophone Short Stories by Multilingual Authors
DESCRIPTION:Special Issue | Writing Across Languages: Anglophone Short Stories by Multilingual Authors \nGuest edited by Elsa Court (University of Oxford)\, Nina Ellis (The American University in Cairo)\, and Sonya Moor (Manchester Metropolitan University). \nIn ‘Hills Like White Elephants’ Ernest Hemingway uses a Spanish expression to insinuate the linguistic reality of a geographic location that is experienced only in passing. ‘Dos cervezas\,’ says one of his two central characters\, a man introduced as ‘the American\,’ whom we understand is in a precarious relationship with a younger woman\, also a native English speaker. For the duration of the five-page story\, the couple sit at a table in the shade of a café while waiting for a train to Madrid\, discussing the future of their relationship in coded terms. They continue ordering drinks presumably still in Spanish — but after the mention of ‘Dos cervezas’\, this second language is presumed\, rather than transcribed. The rest of the story — including further exchanges with the bar owner — is written entirely in English. \nThe literary fiction landscape has dramatically changed since the time when\, as Hilary Mantel put it\, a young writer was systematically advised to avoid using foreign language expressions in her prose\, for fear of sounding ‘elitist’ to the Anglo-American reader. Moreover\, the globalisation of Anglophone creative expression means that not all fiction written in English today is produced from imaginations that think only — or even primarily — in English\, even when that is the primary language of their texts. \nInternational\, peer-reviewed Short Fiction in Theory and Practice (Intellect Books) is proud to invite original short-story submissions for a practice-based special issue to be published in September 2027\, entitled ‘Writing Across Languages: Anglophone Short Stories by Multilingual Authors’. The issue will bring together inventive works of contemporary short fiction\, written primarily in English\, but also incorporating interplay with one or more other languages. \nThe editors invite submissions of up to 5\,000 words that make use of at least one language other than English or find ways of gesturing towards other languages within their narratives. \nThere is no minimum word count. \nDeadline for submissions: 1st December 2026. \nPlease visit the Short Fiction in Theory and Practice website for submission guidelines at: https://www.intellectbooks.com/short-fiction-in-theory-practice \nFor informal enquiries please contact Principal Editor Ailsa Cox (coxa@edgehill.ac.uk).
URL:https://ensfr.univ-angers.fr/event/submission-deadline-special-issue-of-short-fiction-in-theory-practice-writing-across-languages-anglophone-short-stories-by-multilingual-authors/
CATEGORIES:Submission Deadline
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SUMMARY:ENSFR Event: Short Forms Beyond Borders\, A Retrospective on the Erasmus+ Project
DESCRIPTION:How can short forms help us respond to the challenges of a globalised Europe? \nJoin researchers and educators from the six partner universities of the Erasmus+ project Short Forms Beyond Borders (SFBB) for a retrospective roundtable on Tuesday December 1st\, at 6:30pm(GMT) / 7:30(CET). Panelists will look back at the project’s founding ambitions\, assess key outcomes\, and debate whether and how short form studies are facing new challenges in the cultural landscape of contemporary Europe. \nThe Short Forms Beyond Borders project was an Erasmus+ Strategic Partnership between the Universities of Angers (France)\, Giessen (Germany)\, Leuven (Belgium)\, Santiago de Compostela (Spain)\, Szeged (Hungary)\, and the Baludik company (Nantes\, France) with an aim of developing innovative pedagogical programmes that involve the use of short forms.
URL:https://ensfr.univ-angers.fr/event/ensfr-event/
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