We are excited to announce a Save The Date for the 8th Annual ENSFR Conference. The conference will be held at the University of Artois (Northern France) on the 10-12th of June 2026. The title of the conference is: “In Different Shapes: the short story and its modes of circulation in magazines and newspapers.”...
From the competition website: The RSL V.S. Pritchett Short Story Prize seeks to find the best unpublished short story of the year. The 2027 V.S. Pritchett Short Story Prize is now open for entry until Monday 22 June at 5pm. Please ensure you have read and understood the V.S. Pritchett Prize Eligibility and Guidelines prior to entering. ...
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...