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SUMMARY:Competition Deadline: Wells Short Story Competition
DESCRIPTION:From the competition website: \n  \nGot 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.\nThere is also a special prize of £100 in the category for best local author.\nCompetitions open on 1 April and close on 30 June. \n  \nEnter here.
URL:https://ensfr.univ-angers.fr/event/competition-deadline-wells-short-story-competition/
CATEGORIES:Competition Deadline
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SUMMARY:Competition Deadline: The Olga Sinclair Prize
DESCRIPTION:From the competition deadline: \n  \nTheme: WALLS \nWord Limit: 2000 words (excluding the title) \nThe 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 not have to be connected to Norwich\, but it does need to have the concept of Walls as its central theme. \n  \nEnter here.
URL:https://ensfr.univ-angers.fr/event/competition-deadline-the-olga-sinclair-prize/
CATEGORIES:Competition Deadline
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SUMMARY:Residency: Jaunpils Writers’ Castle Residency (Latvia 2026)
DESCRIPTION:The Tukums UNESCO City of Literature Writer-in-Residence Programme will be based at Jaunpils Castle in the Tukums region of Latvia. Traditionally published writers\, poets\, playwrights and screenwriters connected to UNESCO Cities of Literature are invited to apply. \nThe residency will take place in October 2026 and will run for 2-4 weeks. The application deadline is 30 June 2026.
URL:https://ensfr.univ-angers.fr/event/residency-jaunpils-writers-castle-residency-latvia-2026/
LOCATION:The National Centre for Writing
CATEGORIES:Residency
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SUMMARY:Event: Sara Baume & Emily LaBarge discuss Opening Night
DESCRIPTION:Shortly after the pandemic lockdown Sara Baume came across a painting in a pop-up exhibition in a renovated West Cork shed. Fascinated by it\, she became determined to make the painter’s acquaintance – although a native of North Dakota the artist Mollie Douthit was now living and working in rural Ireland. Bonded by a common love of nature and a commitment to their respective artistic practices\, they began to meet regularly\, to talk\, to eat and to swim. What would it be like\, Baume wondered\, to write a book in the style of Mollie’s painting? Opening Night is the result. She will be in conversation with Emily LaBarge\, author of Dog Days.
URL:https://ensfr.univ-angers.fr/event/event-sara-baume-emily-labarge-discuss-opening-night/
LOCATION:London Review Bookshop\, 14 Bury Pl\, London\, WC1A 2JL
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260729
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SUMMARY:Competition Deadline: The Letter Review Prize for Short Fiction
DESCRIPTION:From the competition website: \nThe Letter Review Prize is an internationally celebrated event\, offered every four months in the categories of Short Fiction\, Poetry\, and Books. We publish our winners\, maintain shortlists\, submit to The Pushcart\, and award over $16\,000 USD annually to writers\, meaning our prize is among the highest paying literary prizes administered by a literary journal in the world. \nEnter here.
URL:https://ensfr.univ-angers.fr/event/competition-deadline-the-letter-review-prize-for-short-fiction/
CATEGORIES:Competition Deadline
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260731
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SUMMARY:Competition Deadline: Anthology Short Story Competition
DESCRIPTION:From the competition website: \nEstablished to recognise and encourage creative writing and provide a platform for publication\, the Anthology Short Story Competition is open to original and previously unpublished short stories in the English language by a writer of any nationality\, living anywhere in the world. There is no restriction on theme or style. Stories submitted must not exceed the maximum of 1\,500 words. Writers can submit as many entries as they wish. Each submission will require a separate entry form and is subject to a separate entry fee. \nEnter here.
URL:https://ensfr.univ-angers.fr/event/competition-deadline-anthology-short-story-competition/
CATEGORIES:Competition Deadline
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SUMMARY:Competition Deadline: Southlands Creative Writing Competition 2026
DESCRIPTION:From the competition website: \nSouthlands Arts Centre is excited to announce the launch of our annual creative writing competition. We are open for submissions from Sunday\, 22nd February.  \nWe are taking entries from over 18s and under 18s. There are life writing and fiction categories.  \nContinuing with our tradition the fiction category is themed. This year’s theme is architecture. By this we mean\, buildings of all kinds — from homes to halls\, castles to cabins\, all structures and spaces. \nEnter here.
URL:https://ensfr.univ-angers.fr/event/competition-deadline-southlands-creative-writing-competition-2026/
CATEGORIES:Competition Deadline
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SUMMARY:Event: Lucy Caldwell & Nell Stevens\, Short Story Magic
DESCRIPTION:BBC National Short Story Award-winning Lucy Caldwell (author of Openings and These Days) and Nell Stevens (author of The Original and Somerset Maugham Award-winning Mrs Gaskell & Me) are both masters at catapulting you into characters’ lives\, conjuring entirely new worlds in a matter of pages. In this conversation they discuss their new story collections\, Devotions and The Good Time\, talking stories of love\, grief\, haunted lives\, emotional crossroads\, and irresistible humour with Di Speirs.
URL:https://ensfr.univ-angers.fr/event/event-lucy-caldwell-nell-stevens-short-story-magic/
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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: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/
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