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SUMMARY:Competition Deadline: Claret Press Short Story Competition
DESCRIPTION:From the competition website: \n\nWe’re looking for stories that reflect today’s politics. The deadline for entries is 1st February\, 2026. \n  \n\nDeadline: 1 February \nEnter here.
URL:https://ensfr.univ-angers.fr/event/competition-deadline-claret-press-short-story-competition/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260213
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SUMMARY:Competition Deadline: Writers' & Artists' Short Story Competition
DESCRIPTION:From the competition website: \n  \nEnter our free annual short story competition and be in with a chance of winning a place on an Arvon Residential Writing Week (worth £985) as well as seeing your story published on our site. \nTo enter\, all you have to do is submit a short story (for adults) of no more than 2\,000 words on the theme of play via our online competition form\, and ensure that you have a (free!) account on our website. You can attach your entry in either txt\, pdf\, doc\, or docx format\, while you can add your contact details and a little bit of information about yourself and your writing experience in the ‘Covering letter’ field if you’d like. \nThe closing date for entries is midnight 13th February 2026\, and the winner – along with two runners-up – will be announced on the blog pages of this site in March 2026. \n  \nEnter here.
URL:https://ensfr.univ-angers.fr/event/competition-deadline-writers-artists-short-story-competition/
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SUMMARY:Event: Materiality in the Short Fiction of Alice Munro: Special Issue Launch
DESCRIPTION:This launch event celebrates the publication of a new Short Fiction in Theory and Practice special issue which critically examines materiality in the short fiction of Alice Munro (1931-2024). Throughout her fourteen collections of short stories\, Munro has shown a clear interest in how her characters’ inner life and perception of the world are defined by the material things most immediate to them\, as exemplified in the epigraph\, a well-known quotation from Lives of Girls and Women. In Munro’s work\, materiality is central to an understanding of social\, gendered and individual existence\, as the two are interconnected. Material things nurture the imagination\, where they stick and develop as significant\, unfathomable images. They physically anchor characters in the here and now\, but they also speak to mind and spirit. Whether they are kept or discarded\, over time\, they haunt the protagonist and lead on to chains of memories\, repeatedly re-membered\, and with variations. They may become symbols of something larger than themselves\, but more often than not they remain images stored up in memory\, as so many active links to the past that transform the perception of the present. \nLink to join and watch the event: \nMateriality in the Short Fiction of Alice Munro: Special Issue Launch | Meeting-Join | Microsoft Teams\n\nThe speakers \nCorinne Bigot is Senior Lecturer in Postcolonial and British Literatures at the University of Toulouse Jean Jaurès\, France. Her research interests include postcolonial (particularly Canadian) literature and the genre of the short story. She is the author of Alice Munro: Les silences de la nouvelle (2014) and the co-author\, with Catherine Lanone\, of Sunlight and Shadows: Alice Munro’s Dance of the Happy Shades (2014). She guest-edited a special issue of Commonwealth Essays and Studies called Alice Munro: Writing for Dear Life in 2015. She is the co-author\, with J.R. (Tim) Struthers\, Ailsa Cox and Catherine Sheldrick Ross of Reading Alice Munro’s Breakthrough Books (2024). \nAilsa Cox is the world’s first Professor of Short Fiction. Her books include Alice Munro (Northcote House 2003)\, Writing Short Stories (Routledge\, 3 rd edition 2025); The Mind’s Eye: Alice Munro’s Dance of the Happy Shades with Christine Lorre (Fahrenheit 2015); and Reading Alice Munro’s Breakthrough Books\, in collaboration with Tim Struthers\, Corinne Bigot and Catherine Sheldrick Ross (EUP\, 2024). She has written extensively on other writers including Katherine Mansfield\, Helen Simpson\, Daisy Johnson and Jon McGregor\, and is principal editor of the peer-reviewed journal Short Fiction in Theory and Practice. Her own fiction has been widely published\, most recently in the mini-collection Precipitation (Confingo 2025). \nChristine Lorre is Professor of English at the University of Caen Normandy\, France. She did her doctoral work on Canadian literature at the Sorbonne Nouvelle. Her research since then has focused on postcolonial literature and arts and is located in various areas where gender\, the postcolonial\, globalisation\, cross-cultural transfers\, and environmental humanities converge. Among other publications\, she is the co-author\, with Ailsa Cox\, of The Mind’s Eye: Alice Munro’s Dance of the Happy Shades (Fahrenheit\, 2015) and the co-editor with Eleonora Rao\, of Space and Place in Alice Munro’s Fiction: A Book with Maps in It (Camden House\, 2018). She is currently the President of the Société des Études Postcoloniales (SPEC; the French Society for Postcolonial Studies) and of the European Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies (EACLALS).
URL:https://ensfr.univ-angers.fr/event/materiality-in-the-short-fiction-of-alice-munro-special-issue-launch/
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SUMMARY:Event: A look at Ireland’s Basic Income for the Arts
DESCRIPTION:In this session\, we’ll explore the Irish Income for the Arts programme\, which has supported artists’ incomes and helped retain talent in the sector since 2022. The scheme has awarded a weekly payment of €325 for 2\,000 artists selected at random. With the pilot scheme ending in February 2026\, this will be an opportunity to explore how it works\, the impact it’s had on artist and the cultural scene in Ireland\, and to discuss what a similar scheme would look like in Wales.  \n\nThe panel will include a representative from the Basic Income for the Arts Research Team at the Irish Government; an Irish writer\, Elaine Garvey\, who is a recipient of the scheme; and a changemaker from Wales. More details to be announced soon.  \nLanguage: Welsh and English\, with simultaneous translation service 
URL:https://ensfr.univ-angers.fr/event/event-a-look-at-irelands-basic-income-for-the-arts/
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SUMMARY:Event: Next Generation Short Story Awards
DESCRIPTION:The Next Generation Short Story Awards is a not-for-profit awards program open to authors writing original unpublished short stories (5\,000 words or less per story) in English. Brought to you by the Next Generation Indie Book Awards (NGIBA) and Independent Book Publishing Professionals Group (IBPPG)\, the 2026 Next Generation Short Story Awards offers 30+ categories\, and is open to all authors\, even first-time authors\, in the U.S.\, Canada or internationally. \nThe top short stories will be considered for a cash prize\, gold medal\, complimentary invitation to attend the annual NGIBA awards gala where you will be recognized if your story is a Grand Prize Winner\, literary exposure\, inclusion in an annual anthology\, and recognition as one of the top short stories written this year! \nThe Next Generation Short Story Awards will honor and award 1 Winner and 3 Finalists in each of the 30+ categories and 3 Grand Prize Winners from all entries submitted this year. Winners and Finalists will receive the following: \nGrand Prize Winners: $500 cash prize for 1st plus a trophy; $300 cash prize for 2nd; $200 cash prize for 3rd. Plus all Grand Prize Winners will receive a gold medal\, complimentary invitation to attend the NGIBA awards gala\, story and author bio published in the Anthology of Winners along with a complimentary copy of the Anthology of Winners. \nWinners in each of 30+ Categories: $75 cash prize\, gold medal\, story and author bio published in the Anthology of Winners along with a complimentary copy of the Anthology of Winners. \nFinalists: Story title and author name mentioned in the Anthology of Winners along with the Anthology of Winners available to purchase at half price. Beginning with the 2026 awards year\, Finalists will be able to order medals. \nOther Benefits: Exposure for a full year as a Winner or Finalist on the Next Generation Short Story Awards website\, social media coverage\, complimentary Winner or Finalist gold award sticker image to display on writers’ social media\, potential literary acknowledgements and accolades. \nThe entry deadline date for the 2026 awards program is Thursday\, February 26\, 2026.
URL:https://ensfr.univ-angers.fr/event/event-next-generation-short-story-awards/
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260301
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SUMMARY:Competition Deadline: Edinburgh Short Story Award 2026
DESCRIPTION:From the competition website: \n  \nOpen to writers worldwide\, published and unpublished \nFor short stories on any topic up to 2\,000 words \nWe welcome stories in all genres: literary\, historic\, crime\, romance\, realism\, contemporary\, humour and more. \nEntrants can be any age over 16 years. Stories should be suitable for an adult audience. \n  \nEnter here.
URL:https://ensfr.univ-angers.fr/event/competition-deadline/
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