• Competition Deadline: The Sareeta Domingo Prize

    From the competition website:   The Sareeta Domingo Prize is a free-to-enter writing prize created to discover and support unpublished writers from Black and Global Majority backgrounds, founded by bestselling author Dorothy Koomson in association with Sareeta Domingo’s family, Hachette UK, Jacaranda Books and David Higham Associates.   Enter here.

  • Competition Deadline: Mslexia Women’s Fiction Competition 2026 – Short Story

    From the competition website:   1st prize £3,000. Three additional finalists will each receive £150 and all four winning entries are published in Issue 112 of Mslexia. Winning entries plus eight more shortlisted entries will receive £75 and be published in Mslexia's ebook anthology Best Women's Short Fiction 2026. Entry fee: £14.   Enter here.

  • Event: Sahra Hersi, Stories and Symbols as Tools for Making (CPD Session) at Charleston House, Sussex

    Charleston House

    Join artist and educator Sahra Hersi for a free CPD (continuing professional development) session. Connected to our Reimagine project, a creative learning programme developed with Year 9 students from Priory School in Lewes, this session is open to all educators and practitioners interested in creative learning, including teachers, youth workers, social workers, artists and home educators....

  • ENSFR General Meeting

    Teams

    The European Network for Short Fiction Research invites members to our Annual General Meeting on 28 September at 6pm BST / 7pm CEST. We will look back at the projects, collaborations, and developments that have shaped our work over the past year, and outline our plans and priorities for the year ahead. This meeting is...

  • Competition Deadline: SaveAsWriters International Creative Writing Competition 2026

    From the competition website:   To celebrate 150 years since the first ever telephone call made by Alexander Graham Bell, SaveAs Writers invite you to submit poetry or short stories with this theme: 'Lines of Communication'. Methods of communication have developed rapidly since that first phone call in 1876. Therefore, the theme can be interpreted...