Join author Ben Pester and Keith Ridgway with Barry Pierce to discuss their new books Doors 630pm, event start 7pm prompt BEN PESTER is the author of the short story collection Am I in the Right Place? (2021) and the novel The Expansion Project (2025), which was shortlisted for the Nero Book Awards and the Goldsmiths Prize. "Pester is a...
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.
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...
From the competition website: Got a potential page-turner inside you? Then polish up your prose and send your entry to this year’s Short Story Competition. First prize is £750, while second and third-place winners will receive £300 and £200 respectively. There is also a special prize of £100 in the category for best local...
From the competition deadline: Theme: WALLS Word Limit: 2000 words (excluding the title) The Brief: Judges are looking for wise choices of vocabulary, well-structured plotting and description, sparkling dialogue, pace and precision. Although the theme is always selected to represent Norwich you are free to interpret this however you see fit. Your story does...