Hi Chris, I live in Australia (originally from Yorkshire). JUNE 2021. I'm a writer from Iran. Thank you for your message. James, the Bloody Scotland competition is the only one I'm aware of that is currently running and just about crime. The Ultimate “How To” Writing Book by Christopher Fielden. I live in South Africa and there are a number of these competitions I'd like to enter. In these instances, there will be links to the published stories and more detailed information about my direct experiences with the competition in question. I'm afraid you'll have to review the guidelines for each competition and see which are OK with it. Thanks, Russell, thanks for the information. 2020-2021 Competition List. You can try the magazines page as a lot of the US publications take submissions around the 7,000 word mark. The Aeon Award website is now back, so I presume that was a temporary blip. Doesn't seem to respond to emails or post updates... Chris Fielden H Can I recommend adding details of a new short story/poetry journal called Sixfold which I have recently submitted to? Cathy M It would be great to hear how you get on with the competitions :-). I feel I have been treated unfairly. Anyway - Julie, good luck on climbing Everest, in the dark, in winter, without oxygen. It also gives you some great experience in dealing with editors so it's fabulous for your writing CV. My question - In your experience do successful short stories usually approximate the maximum word limit? Boy,  does it save a lot of time. Thanks again for putting up the list on your web site. Regards, John. Do you run an essay competition or non-fiction writing contest? Chris Fielden I'm 14 and really struggling to find a competition to enter my 400 word short story into! Chris Fielden Ted I Hi Chris, a writer friend put me onto your site and it's great. Just wanted to say thanks very much for collating all this information - extremely useful to aspiring novelists! UPDATE: Very short story (flash fiction) competitions previously listed on this page have been moved here onto a dedicated page to improve usability. Prize: £50 and publication. I hope my thoughts are of interest to you and I wish you the very best with your writing. Chris Fielden Ted. Open theme. Qudsia T Audio Arcadia might well pass judgment on my work in my allotted time frame but can their timetable be true? From 2014 to 2019, the competition was run annually. Sorry to hear about your experience with Freeditorial. Thanks for your message. And entering legitimate writing contests sounds a lot more challenging and rewarding. Hi John. But it does sell, it's won a couple of awards and the stories are being well received by reviewers and used on radio etc. Congratulations on the honourable mention from Glimmer Train – that’s great news. Perhaps you could recommend suitable competitions I could enter? So there was a high disqualification rate. It is greatly appreciated! However, you can use your browser’s search function to do what you're asking (assuming you have an up to date one). Mon 1 February 2021 (All ... Aurealis Submissions. It is a shrinking market. When I checked out the Glimmer Train contest there is a $15.00 "Reading Fee" for each entry. V Do you want it featured at the top of this page? I did list you as a source in one of the competitions. Paul, Chris Fielden The book is then strapped to the handlebars of a Harley Davidson FLSTFi Fatboy and filmed being ridden to Hull and back. Chris Fielden Marlene P Hi. Never give up if you have a writing talent. The only time you might run into issues is with the contracts you enter into when your work is published through competitions. Students all over Australia are invited to enter their poems OR short stories, … It's just not possible to give writers feedback without payment. Ted I Let’s begin! Chris can you advise me please. Thanks very much. Great to hear you find the site useful :-). I received a mail recently to say the Ruth Rendell Interact comp is running. Thank you so much for such a useful list. Deb, you're welcome - I'm glad you like the site :-). See usissc.com. Chris Fielden Seeing all these competitions gives hope to aspiring writers! Hey Christopher, thank you so much for collating such extensive lists! The only exception to this is if a contest stipulates a minimum and a maximum, which some magazines do to fit their print requirements. The third table lists yearly competitions of different genres offering a wide variety of prizes, some cash, some not. Greetings, I've noticed the 'Dark Lane Quarterly Collaborative' magazine, is not an addition to any of the listings. prize is a framed print of Grandma Mo and Siamese Joe and publication on the website - NO WINNER ANNOUNCED IN 2019, so removed listiing 2020, Notes on Red Tuque Competition: Any style / genre - winners published in anthology - CLOSED 2017, Notes on Solution Loans Competition: Any style / genre, Let me know if you have any questions about it . Chris Fielden They are the Writers' & Artists' Yearbook and the Mslexia Indie Publishing Guide. I've sent a story off to a competition found on your site but then realize to my horror that I should have written 'belongs' rather than 'belonged' in one small area. It was the Long Short Story contest by Freeditorial. I think it's a great concept and would be grateful if you could help spread the word by adding it to your list. This site looks good, but you should have a section for younger writers; I'm 13 and none of these competitions are what I'm looking for. The details are below, what do you think? Chris Fielden Finance can be a pretty dull area so we’re always looking for new ideas and ways to link to our Solution Loans brand. SHORT STORY — An imagined future. It's a monthly affair, and winners qualify for re-entry in the Annual Competition, where the Coupon prize is more substantial. word limit varies, but has been up to 7,500 words in the past Not a word wasted. ( closely linked with the poet laureate C.A. The reason I don’t put the competitions in date order is because they often change and become out of date and it’s too much admin work to stay on top of it all, hence the listings are alphabetical. Of late I felt the hunger to put my thoughts into words and it resulted in immense gratification. As the list grows, I will add current competitions alphabetically at the top. For some students, writing is also an intricate part of who they are and how they express themselves. If you do enter more than one competition at once, I'd just let any other competitions know when your work has been accepted elsewhere so it causes them minimum inconvenience. Chris Fielden The books actually say where and when they were first published - maybe because they are obliged to, but probably because the reader will find it interesting. The 2021 Bristol Short Story Prize Deadline: 5 May 2021 More details here. What you have done here is very helpful . Dominika Ashley, there are some competitions that welcome simultaneous submissions, and some that accept previously published work too. Anne K 2021 Canterbury Festival Poet of the Year Competition Deadline: 11 June 2021 More details here. Venu, Chris Fielden Chris Fielden I'll have a look at the competition you mentioned. Students ages 10–14 with a passion for telling great stories and discussing issues that matter most to kids are encouraged to apply in the spring for the following school year. I believe that having stories in your collection that are previously published would make your work far more saleable as the stories are of a proven quality - an editor or competition judge has already thought they were good enough to publish. So, in my experience, it's not impossible to enjoy success from writing shorter works. Chris Fielden Welcome, Palash - best of luck with your writing :-). I have seen a couple of possible sites/competitions here, so THANKs. Chris Fielden Writing is an extremely important part of success in high school, college, and life in general. Preeti Mandy - glad you found this resource so useful. Still, if you do submit to a competition or magazine that does accept previously published work after your story has been published, you could make changes prior to submitting. I'm planning on entering tomorrow night just before the deadline. Writers' Forum might be good, probably between now and the end of October, ready for the magazine released closest to Christmas. Just like me! Please contact me if there is any other information you would like to see on this page, or for any ideas on improvements. So thanks for letting me know. I will not share your details with anyone else. I've also entered several competitions this year from your extensive listings, and have just found four more I'd like to try my hand at. Admittedly, it took a bit longer than that to decide on the longlist and shortlist, but like I said, I am but one man. I appreciate it. £17 seems a high price to pay to lose control of one's story for ever and ever. Just a note re: NEEDLE IN THE HAY, the readers don't vote. Having been on the other end of this, I understand why. Hi James. About a third of them found us through your website. Having a fee tends to result in higher quality submissions from writers who at least adhere to the submission guidelines. No. It is an act of great generosity on your part. Figment ages: 13+ Details: This is an online writing community meant to encourage teen writers to write and share their work. I'm in a writing group and every short story I write is critiqued and then edited to improve it, before it is submitted anywhere. It's a noted competition in Ireland. I hope that's helpful :-). Bree W They have had to postpone their first issue in order to allow more submissions. Most of the competitions listed are open to entries from writers living anywhere in the world, but there are a few that are country and / or area specific. I would like to submit one for your consideration. They must receive hundreds of manuscripts in the week before closing date, or I’m a Dutchman. Regards, H. And thanks very much Helen :-) I've contacted www.writing.ie to see if they can give me more details, or point at the right website to find out all the entry details. Not a trivial difference. Admittedly, these are old books from established authors, but the fact that the stories were previously published didn't stop a publisher releasing them as a collection. Chris M POETRY, SHORT STORY & ART COMPETITIONS "Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing." The 2018 contest is only in Spanish as you can see on the web freeditoral.com/es. Hi Petrina, most of the competitions listed on the site accept entries from residents in any country as long as the stores are written in English. Even Orwell remarked on it. I had a very nice email from the organiser, who said that because the competition begins and ends in May of consecutive years it would be too confusing, and they have to work around Ruth Rendell's busy schedule. Archie D This is because I try and list Scotland and Wales separately - it's just so writers know the locality of the market they are submitting to. I would add that the majority of my experience is with the UK market, not the US, and I appreciate there are some significant differences. Chris Fielden Chris Fielden I'm far from the first to say this, but what an excellent site! It has always been very difficult to publish short stories. Hi Chris, just wanted to say thank you for the information you provide on here. It's worth a go! Look no further! Most competitions accept entries from writers located anywhere in the world. Kevin C I agree that there is a lot of 'bad' or poor quality writing that gets submitted and this is also true in the self-publishing world. Cheers, Richard, Chris Fielden Secondly, and sorry if I'm being a bother - where are the international competitions - if say I'm neither British, American, Canadian etc? Chris Fielden Very useful. Many thanks and stay safe. David B I guess a lot of sites are run by hobbyists or companies with small budgets, meaning updates can a tad on the slow side! Regarding stories. Any short story competition with a prize of more than £1,000 ($, € or other currency) is listed here. . I’m always open to suggestions, so feel free to send more through as you spot them. The essays can be fiction or non-fiction and on any topic’. Thanks Dee, added! I've noticed, when skimming through other short stories that have been published, that a great deal of them seem to be in the present rather than the past. But then I’ve never been published in Australia and it might be standard there. Ben S I'll let you know if they get back to me. Regards and humble cursatives (as I sit in the hellhole of a soft play area, awaiting my son to finish his climbing class). I update this page around once a week. I hope this resolves any concerns, but if not, please feel free to contact me, NOT RUN FOR A YEAR, so removed listing during 2020 update, The Once and Future Moon Anthology from Eibonvale Press, Thresholds International Short Story Forum, Notes on Words & Women Competition: Any style or genre, but only open to women living in East England - story must explore the life of women and their relationship to place in East England - Do you have any recommendations? The fourth table lists writing contests for young writers and children. Notes on Anthology Magazine Competition: Any style / genre, but themed, so check website for current details - winner published in Anthology Magazine - reduced early-bird fee available until April, Notes on the To Hull And Back Competition: New BIG 1st prize means the full details for this competition can be seen above in the Prestigious &/or Big Prize Short Story Competitions - runs biennially, Notes on Cinnamon Press Competition: Any style / genre - winners and runners up published in winners' anthology - they run a variety of competitions, best to check the website to see what's currently open - top prize used to be £500, but sometimes its bursaries, mentoring or similar, CWA Margery Allingham Short Story Competition, Rejected Manuscripts Short Fiction Competition, Writers' & Artists' Yearbook Short Story Competition. You are welcome, Chris. I've updated the page accordingly :-), Fionnuala K Charging a fee also encourages writers to undertake their research properly before submitting - reading back issues and studying the publication thoroughly, before writing a story and submitting. The National Council of Teachers of English offers several student writing awards including Achievement Awards in Writing (for 11th-grade students), Promising Young Writers (for 8th-grade students), and a journalism award for middle and high school students: Recognizing Excellence in Art and Literary Magazines. Hi, thanks for all your hard work... invaluable stuff, for sure. Out of Frame Anthologies Competition, Oxford Festival of the Arts The Solutions Loan page loads fine for me. My view is that you can't guarantee winning a competition, but you can certainly guarantee not winning. Thanks to your meticulous index, I've discovered so many journals that I otherwise would never have known about! OK, thanks for the information. If you type ‘sci-fi’ (for example) into the box, the search function will then allow you to click arrows that take you straight to those words on the page. I hope that's helpful and best of luck with your writing! Thank you for you kind and quick reply. This is a brilliant site. Thanks for highlighting this – much appreciated. Hi Brendan. To back this theory up, 'The Golden Apples of the Sun' and 'The Collected Short Stories of Roald Dahl' are examples of 2 very famous books that contain stories that have been previously published in a wide variety of magazines. Looks like the spring contest is closed (did so on 31st May) and the winter one will open later in the year. John N I've been reading your website and find it very useful. Dear Chris, I know you can't do everything, but can you insert a 'search' option that will allow me to find, for example, sci-fi? Thanks again! As most of you should know we have now had our original investors back out of the competition, leaving us in a somewhat sticky position on the run up to February. I've been busy checking out the finer details of some of the competitions and choosing which to submit to. They list many competitions and it looks like it's kept quite up to date :-), Chioma C If you submit to a magazine and aren't prepared to pay a fee, then you're essentially asking the editors to do their dayjob for free. Sorry if the Stuff What Makes I Laugh page distracted you from your work, but I think having a giggle once in a while helps the brain to work more efficiently and makes your writing better. I would love to register in a competition but  really don't know which category to look under. Subscribe to my YouTube channel. P I'm sure the fine purveyor of search known as Google will send you somewhere helpful :-) Sorry I can't be of more help on that front. You can learn how to submit to those here. Crazy. Thank you for your reply. I often recommend Writers’ Forum as a good place to start as they publish a wide variety of genres and run a monthly competition, so you can enter at any time of year. Deadline: 1 March -31 March 2021 More details here. and any theme or limitation on style/genre of stories accepted. That closes in July, but the organisers might have changed the entry dates. And many writers hone their craft through shorter works, before going onto novels, so they have their place in that respect too. Anyway, I owe you a big thanks. The word limit is 1,000. James A Do you know about any short story writing competitions held in India? Thanks for letting me know, Maggie. Hi Emma, in my experience, it doesn't matter how long the story is, it's the quality of the story that counts. S Adi, you're welcome - I'm glad you find the site useful :). Or are they mentioned in the notes, 'cause I only checked the country...? Further to previous, the email I sent Sue bounced with a 'this email doesn't exist anymore' message, so I guess the site has closed. This section has now moved to the Essay Contest and Non-Fiction Writing Competitions page. Great website by the way. Hélène I’ve kept the information on the writing competition calendar brief, only detailing the important bits, like genre, approximate opening dates, approximate closing dates, word count and, of course, the amount of prize money you can win. Just thought I should let you know that the Meridian Competition is no longer running. PS I entered my first ever comp at NiTH last week and got short listed, so a nice start and a good spring board towards other sites' comps with deadlines this week. Am I having a dim moment, or does merely entering a story to them mean that it will never be free of them again? Hi Chris, I love your web site - thought you may like to know Askance Publishing are back with a 2015 short story competition after a year off. In contrast, the competition I run on my site had 94 entries this year and a 0% disqualification rate. 'Broken Worlds' Dystopian Short Story Competition, Anderbo RRofihe Trophy Short Story Contest, Artificium Thanks to you I have been able to be shortlisted 7 times in the last two months, 4 times at NEEDLE, twice at Writers Notebook and once at Chaptercheckers. Well, good luck with that then. I found it very comprehensive and did the non-fiction and fiction modules. My Dubliner friend, Paul Jacob, was relaxing with a coffee at at Davy Byrnes, discussing Bloomsday with the staff. With a couple of exceptions, they are all selecting different stories as favourites to win. One to add to your short story competition list: Bloody Scotland do a crime fiction based competition, 3000 words with a £1000 prize. HS C You might find some other opportunities there. This is my first time on this site and its overwhelming. Thanking you Captain Rich, Jane B 05/05/2021 2021 Bristol Short Story Prize The competition is open to all writers around the world whether published or unpublished, UK or non-UK based. Hence my asking you! Not unless you are a very well known novelist. Nice work Chris. I imagine he could recount the incident in an entertaining way if you were to ask him. They loved the idea and ran with it! At least, that's how I understand it. I reckon I am probably too late for this year, but have recently written a short story which has surprised me a lot. The UK site seems to have disappeared, but there is a US one now. Check out our range of workshops to ready yourself for submission. While these competitions don't specifically ask for a Christmas theme, your story might appeal to them more at this time of year. Go to the Coding Events on Grok page for dates/details of the various streams/competitions for 2021 [3 sessions]. Thanks for this Chris, kind of you to share it. Chris Fielden Word limit: 1500 words. The AHC also showcases to students and other staff that History is an important subject with … Some have limitations. See Harry Bingham's Writers' Workshop blog about them (post 1 here and post 2 here). If so, get in touch. Opportunities and Competitions. Christopher, I plan to enter one of the short story contests you mentioned. By the way, I didn't see the Queryletter.com blurb competition... though the deadline is past but it's something I entered earlier on and others could benefit from the next time it is run ( as applicable). Search. You pay someone to read your story only to have it rejected and you've wasted money. I found a competition not on your website with a prize for $10,000 Australian dollars and wondered if you think it is legitimate or not. Rex G As the Ether Books site has recently undergone an overhaul, I’m assuming details of comps will be added soon so have left the link live. This evening I was told about the way the Davy Byrnes Short Story Award came to be. Judith, Moody C Thank you for your hard work as usual, Christopher! Brendan M Well... a lot of people have already laid the well-deserved commendations at your doorstep but I guess there's always room for more.... Actually, I stumbled upon your website as part of my search for funding from writing competitions and I can authoritatively say ( to the extent applicable ;-)  ),  it's  one of the best out there.... and I admire the spirit of including the list of other websites that could be checked out. The general theme is new technology and how it has changed our lives. And they are supporting a very worthy charity through the competition, so it looks legitimate to me. Chris, I thought you might be interested in adding the Poetic Republic short story competition to your very useful list of competitions on your website. He just mentioned it to me as a friend in passing and isn’t looking for attention. Thank you very much for providing this wonderful resource to us. Thank you so much ! Chris Fielden Thanks for letting me know about the Kingston Writing School competition – I’ve removed the listing from the active lists and put in the history section. Hi Ayo. Jo B In addition to this, the winner's face is featured on the front cover of the book, which is created by a different artist each year. K I Chris Fielden 12/03/2021: 2021 Geelong contemporary art prize The 2021 Geelong contemporary art prize (the prize) carries an award of $30,000. Available at newsagents in the UK and probably elsewhere. My short story collection was published by Victorina Press recently - they're a UK based indie press that follow the principals of bibliodiversity, which is why I approached them. Some competitions read blind; some require credits for previously published work; some stipulate that you shall NOT list credits (because it would break the blind). Hi Christopher, I just wanted to thank you for putting together the detailed list of short story contests because I had no idea what to do with the rather good little story I wrote last year which ended up being selected for the HG Wells story anthology. Hi Ted, nope, no ridicule at all, your input is very helpful :-). Neither, it seems, is PinkPen or Friends of Dickens. All are worth investigating, but if you intend to sell online, Amazon is probably your best bet as it is most widely known. Thank you! Thanks Frank, glad you're finding the site useful. Websites that change their competition URL every year rarely let me know, so unless I link to homepages, it’s nigh on impossible to keep the lists up to date. Just wondered if they had closed up shop. Please find more details and terms and conditions of entry on the InterAct Reading Service website. International Short Story Contest, Fairfield Scribes Anthology Feature Story Contest, Flash 500 International Short Story Competition, Fowey Festival of Art and Literature Short Story Competition, Hammond House Publishing International Literary Awards, Hastings Literary Festival Short Story Competition, Highlands & Islands Short Story Association, Knoxville Writers' Guild Writing Contests, Literary Taxidermy Short Story Competition, Living Springs Publishers Baby Boomers Plus, Maria Edgeworth Literary Festival Competition, Norwich Writers' Circle Wakakirri Dance Challenge . Hi Moshe. My teeny worry is you mention Brit Writers. Ashley W I checked the rules again and rule B under terms and conditions of competition clearly states, 'Long-Short Stories must be fiction or historical and written in English.'. I guess that would have a negative impact on all forms of publishing, not just short stories. He suggested they celebrate by hosting a short story competition in honor of James Joyce’s connection to the pub. This page is the most popular resource on my website, receiving between 8,000 and 15,000 visits a month. Many thanks Tim & Fionnuala! In view of the fact that the relevant entry form was not online I wrote to the organisers who have now told me that the competition will not be taking place. But with competitions that have quick turnarounds, I tend to wait, as it doesn't hinder your submissions too much. Thanks again, MC, Chris Fielden Have a lovely day! The Solutions Loan Comp seems to have mysteriously vanished. One of the problems being too many writers and not enough outlets for our work. I received the reply, 'The Contest is in Spanish. Upcoming ... Sports Writing Competition 2021 - Preview. I've written a collection of short stories and have decided to enter them in various competitions this year, since publishing them as a whole collection is proving to be quite difficult (as a previously unpublished author). I just wanted to say thank you for the list of various competitions available for short story writing. Thank you for somehow or other reticular(ly) activating my brain system to Inktears and Writers' Forum. Unfortunately, I also wasted a lot of precious time when I should have been writing, thanks to your 'Stuff what makes I laugh' section, so thanks a lot for that. George Floyd Short Story Competition, Poetry on the Lake Short Story Competition, R C Sherriff Trust's Elmbridge Literary Competition, San Francisco Writers' Conference Writing Contest, Shooter Literary Magazine Short Story Competition, Short Fiction Literary Journal Short Story Competition, Society of Spanish Researchers UK 'Science me a Story' Competition, South African Writers College Short Story Competition, Southport Writers' Circle International Short Story Competition, Tamworth Literary Festival's Annual Writing Competition, The Phare WriteWords Short Story Competition, Wells Literary Festival Short Story Competition, Willowdown Books 'RH Cunningham Memorial' Short Story Competition, Chaucer Heritage Trust's Canterbury Tales Writing Competition, Fresher Publishing's
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