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Short story contest winners 1 at 4:59 p. Highly Commended 10 x £100. She is the winner of the 2019 Cecile de Jongh Literary Prize from the Caribbean Writer, and the 2016 Small Axe Literary Short Story Competition. Prize money will be paid on publication of the Prize-winning stories. For complete coverage of the awards, Second place: €250 Third place: €150 Winning story published in Anthology magazine. [4] Polar Expressions National Short-Story Contest Details : Open to Canadian residents and citizens of all ages; separate division for young writers. by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi. Picture: Jake Prizes: Short Story Prize. m. Lorian called the winner — a struggling Key The word is out. Catherine Nikas-Boulos. Chihuahua. It carries a first prize of €300 and three runners-up prizes of €100. Previous Winner: Tom Miles One of the largest short story prizes, the winning story features in our anthology, so you will see your words in print, maybe for the first time. Judges Harry Ricketts and Tina Makereti have named these stories as their top five: Girlhood by Stella Weston The BBC National Short Story Award (known as the National Short Story Award in 2006 and 2007) is an annual short story contest in the United Kingdom which is open to UK residents and nationals. The Masters Review’s Short Story Award for New Writers is a bi-annual contest that recognizes the best fiction from today’s emerging writers. Read the spine-tingling winning and finalist pieces from our Scary Stories Competition below! Please note: Winning and finalist pieces on the site are now publicly viewable. The Anthology Short Story Competition is now open for submissions of original and previously unpublished short stories in the English language by a writer of any nationality, living Our annual AoPS Academy Short Story Contest challenges our elementary and secondary-level students to dig deep into their own creativity to find the right words to convey a unique story to their audience. Any short fiction contest with a prize of more than £1,000 ($, € or other currency) is listed here. 2020 The ladder : Kotopopi The Monster Under My Bed : Marvin. Oct 15. We Walked on Water. PAST WINNERS. Think you can write a winning story in 1,500 words or less? Enter the 25th Annual Writer’s Digest Short Short Story Competition for your chance to win $3,000 in cash, get published in Writer’s Digest magazine, and a paid trip Josephine is also a short story writer whose work has been published in magazines and anthologies. Ten stories will be published in the FISH ANTHOLOGY 2025. FIRST PRIZE (€5,000) AWARDED to MATTIE BRENNAN for ‘DEAD BAIT’. In 2011 the prize was renamed the ABR Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize. The Jolley Prize is worth a total of $12,500 and is for an original work of short fiction of between 2,000 and 5,000 words, written in English. Login / Register; Subscribe; Awards. Listen to RTÉ Arena's lives pecial announcing Short Story Contest Winners 08. Second place: €250 Third place: €150 Winning story published in Anthology magazine. 6 to Feb. We admire self-assured style and unabashed ingenuity, a A short story about the first lawyer in a close-knit Black family has been named the winner of the 2020 ABA Journal/Ross Writing Contest for Legal Short Fiction. WINNER: ‘Buzz’ by Katie Rose, age 18 (United In its two centuries of existence, The Saturday Evening Post has published short fiction by a who’s who of great American authors, including Ray Bradbury, William Faulkner, F. We Winners of the Star’s 45th annual short story contest were announced Tuesday night, with Alice Gauntley’s ‘Free To a Good Home’ placing first. We’re very excited to announce that his debut novel, with the same title, was published at the end The titular story won the regional prize for Asia in the 2019 Commonwealth Short Story Contest. Keep being brave, keep believing in yourself, and keep writing! We look forward to reading more of your work! Let’s Celebrate! Winners will be announced in January 2025. The announcement was made by judge, Lisa McInerney at a Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Horror, Humor, Memoir, Mystery, Romance, and Short Story The Booksie 2024 Short Story Contest invites writers to submit original short stories, with a maximum length of 5,000 words. 3rd Prize: £500. Written By Colin Mustful. 💰 Entry fee: $22 📅 Deadline: July 31, 2025 WOW! Spring 2025 Flash Discover the finest writing contests of 2025 for fiction and non-fiction authors — including short story competitions, essay writing competitions, poetry contests, and Welcome to the CRAFT 2024 Short Fiction Prize! Since our launch in 2017, CRAFT has been a premier online home for the contemporary short story. Since then, it has been included in Bloomsbury’s ‘The Art and Craft of Asian Stories’, and in ‘The Best of Malaysian Short Fiction in English 2010 Tania Hutley started her literary career by writing short stories and has been a runner up in New Zealand’s two most prestigious short story competitions, the Katherine Mansfield Awards and the Sunday Star Times Short Story Toronto Star Short Story Contest First Prize winner: ‘The Good Mother’ Dawn Miller’s story has claimed first prize in the Star’s annual short story contest. The winner receives $6,000 from the Canada Big Why, Little Why by Brendan Killeen has been announced as the winning story in this year’s RTÉ Short Story Competition in honour of Francis MacManus. The prize Whether or not your story wins a prize this year, you are still a winner for having the courage to put your story out into the world. Click here to read all about the winning authors. As well as being considered for the £750 Isobel Lodge prize, your story will also be in the Teika Marija Smits is a UK-based freelance editor and the author of the short story collections Umbilical (NewCon Press), which was shortlisted for the 2024 Rubery Book Award, and Waterlore (Black Shuck Books), as well as Winners of the 2024 Short Story Contest. W Basket Rack : meganebii Red Dart : Punko Solid State : Scott-Higginbotham Lucid Lucy : carles_dalmau Wingless : Pipilia Counting The Days : caw-chan HOW TO ESCAPE THE END OF THE WORLD : atenahenahena Metamorphosis MMXX : GUNIMED Grandma's Cake Novelist and short story writer, Ross Raisin has won the nineteenth BBC National Short Story Award with Cambridge University (NSSA) for ‘Ghost Kitchen’, a tense, cinematic story narrated by a bicycle courier and inspired by the gig economy and the ‘dark kitchens’ of the restaurant industry. The Beginners’ Short Story section is restricted to those who have never had a short story published before. 1st Prize: £5000. As a result, the judges – Bazaar’s Dead Bait by Mattie Brennan has been announced as the winning story in this year’s RTÉ Short Story Competition 2024 in honour of Francis MacManus. Read the winning stories here. This is Raised in Donegal, Stephen O’Reilly lives near Craughwell, Co. The competition has a forty-four year history of literary excellence, and Lorian Hemingway and her small judging panel are dedicated to enthusiastically supporting the efforts and talent of writers of short fiction whose The CBC Short Story Prize is open between Sept. “This contest is a tribute to the Post’s legacy of The CBC Short Story Prize winner will receive $6,000 from the Canada Council for the 3Macs carte blanche Prize and the Atwater Library's 150 Words for 150 Years contest. The first prize, Irish language story, ‘Cnámharlach Uaigneach’ by Nicola Crean wins Third Prize of €3,000. The 10 winners will be published in the Fish Today, the Sunday Times named Susan Choi the winner of the 2021 Sunday Times Audible Short Story Award, which honors the best short story of the year. 2nd Prize: £1000. ET. The second table lists well renowned and prestigious short story competitions which offer big cash prizes. ABR welcomes entries in the 2025 ABR Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize. First Place - “Dead-End At Holly Street” by Stacey Campbell Second Place - "The Yellow Scarf” by Laura Clark Third Place - “A Train Bound For Nowhere” by Jacob L’Hommedieu Honorable Patrick Holloway won first prize with his wonderful short story,’The Language of Remembering’ in our 2023 Award, judged by Farhana Shaikh. Jamaican writer Kwame McPherson is the overall winner of the 2023 Commonwealth Short Story Prize. Our winning and highly commended UK based writers are entered into the BBC short story In 1981 Lorian Hemingway could not have dreamed that the small Key West short story competition she judged would one day become one of America’s most prestigious literary contests. Entry: £14 | Bursary Application 5000 words max. In 2020, his story in 2024, events, short story competition Huge Congratulations to our 2024 HG Wells Short Story Competition winners”! Celia Fournier won the Margaret and Reg Turnill Prize (Under 22) for “Vulture’s Field” and Robert She is also a past winner of the Mslexia Short Story Competition. The judges have completed their deliberations and today we can reveal the winners of the second, hotly contested and highly acclaimed Sunday Post Short Story Competition 2024 Writing Contests & Writing Competitions Science Fiction Short Story: “When I Was Your Age” Karen Krumpak Writer's Digest Magazine May/June 2018 Online Exclusives Grand Prize-Winning Short Story: “Snow. £15,000 for the winning story, £3,000 for the runner-up and £500 for the three other shortlisted stories. The Commonwealth Foundation announced Kwame McPherson’s win in an online award ceremony on 27 June, hosted by Anthology Short Story Competition. History Through Fiction is proud to announce the winners of our first annual short story contest! Grand Prize The Hills That Hold Me by Ellen O’Brien Short story collection competitions: find regularly updated lists of contests, Eyelands Awards notes: Any style or genre - various categories, including single author short story collections - winners considered for publication by Strange Days Books and translation into Greek - winner receives a holiday in Athens: Deadline: May 31, 2024. Welcome to the 2024 Nine to Noon Short Story Competition, judged by author Harry Ricketts and Tina Makareti. The contest offers a grand prize of $500, along with badges for winners encoded on the blockchain. She has three novels in progress (two lit novels and a YA) and won the 2022 Mslexia Short Story The Toronto Star and Toronto Public Library are presenting their 46th annual short story contest, accepting entries from Jan. She was a finalist for the 2022 BCLF Short Fiction Story Contest. Previous winners include Lottie Mills (2020), whose debut short story collection, Monstrum will be published by Oneworld in May 2024. She won first place in NYC Midnight’s Flash Fiction Competition and The Academy of Teachers’ ‘Stories Out of School’ $2,500 Awaits Winners of Lorian Hemingway Short Story Competition 2025 Writers of short fiction may now enter the 2025 Lorian Hemingway Short Story Competition. Judges Patrick Flanery, Melinda Harvey and Susan Midalia chose Van Epps’s story The Short Story Challenge is an annual creative writing competition that challenges writers around the world to create short stories based on genre, subject, and character assignments in as little as 24 hours. Please find the overall and regional winning stories from the Commonwealth Short Story Prize. [1] [2] It has been described as "one of the most prestigious [awards] for a single short story" [3] and the richest prize in the world for a single short story. Submissions for the Kenyon Review Short Fiction Contest are accepted electronically every year from January 1 through January 31. The theme for this year’s short-story competition, held in association with Montblanc, was 'the experiment', which gave rise to highly original narratives. 28, 2024. Winners 2024 National Poetry and Short-Story Contests: Congratulations to the final prize winners in each division and all those published in our 17th annual national summer poetry and short-story contests for all ages! Get to know the OutStanding Short Story Competition 2018 prize winners here. About the Short Fiction Contest. The Kenyon Review publishes the winning story in print (with Stories shortlisted for the National Short Story Award Short Story Contest Winners. Writing Short Stories & Essay Writing Interview with Reena Shah, Winner of the WD 19th Annual Short Short Story Competition Cassandra Lipp. Go on, take a look! Read the winning entry of our 2023 short story competition Ally Cornish's The Archivist tells the tale of an oppressed wife finally regaining her voice By Clara Strunck Published: 28 June 2023 Five winners have been announced in Nine to Noon's 2024 Short Story competition. Photo of short story competitors vying for a $1000 prize. The top five winners will be announced on Friday 25 The Best Short Stories 2023 was assembled for you, dear reader, to give you a sense of the enormous range and capacity of the contemporary short story, to make you laugh, to bewilder and delight and scare you, to show . The stories also regularly featured on Arena with Seán Rocks, leading up to tonight’s Arena RTÉ Short Story Competition live event. Background In 2005, the National Short Story Prize was launched at the Edinburgh International Book Festival to re-establish the importance of the British story after many years of neglect. 1 and Nov. Prizes : Over $3,500 in cash and other prizes. He is a previous recipient of a Molly Keane Memorial award, a HG 2024 Jill Van Epps: ‘Pornwald’ Jill Van Epps from New York was the winner of the 2024 ABR Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize for her story ‘Pornwald’. Entries open August 30 and close on September 27, 2024. Read the winning story "Nothing Is Forever" by Amy Zambetti and the category finalists The RTÉ Short Story Competition has been championing new talent for decades; past winners and shortlisted writers include Claire Keegan, Danielle McLaughlin, Anthony Here's a list of more than 25 short story contests in 2024 and 2025 that cater to a range of genres and writers, arranged chronologically. Winners Short-list Long-list On behalf of all of us at Fish, congratulations to all of you who made the long and the short-lists. June 30, 2024 - 2:30PM. Set up in 1986 to honour writer and broadcaster Francis MacManus, the RTÉ Short The annual HG Wells Fiction Short Story Competition offers a £500 Senior and £1,000 Junior prize and free publication of all shortlisted entries in a quality, professionally published paperback anthology. Each year, writers submit their very best short stories of 1,500 words or fewer. 5 min read. Let’s Tell This Story Properly. Scott Fitzgerald, Louis L’Amour, Sinclair Lewis, Jack London, Joyce Carol Oates, Edgar Allan Poe, Anne Tyler, and Kurt Vonnegut, among so many others. Writer’s Digest would like to congratulate the winners of the 18th Annual Short Short Story Competition. Read the Kindle edition of ‘Next Big Thing: 2018 Winners’ here . 11. The Whale Writing Contests & Writing Competitions 19th Annual WD Short Short Story Competition Winner: Hari Om Senior Center by Reena Shah Reena Shah. Past Jolley Prize winners. Read the Kindle edition of ‘It’s Complicated: 2017 Winners’ here . There are a couple of other big prize awards listed in the Regular Short Story Competitions above (it seems pointless to list them twice). With a prize of £30,000, the award is the world’s richest prize for a The first prize winner of the 2024 Seán Ó Faoláin International Short Story Competition, Jack Kennedy, will read his winning story on 19th October 2024 at the Cork International Short Story Festival. Entries for both short story sections should be of Elementary students (ages 5-10), Middle grade students (ages 10-14) and High School students (ages 14-18) are invited to submit a short story for WBF’s third annual Short Story competition! Winning stories, along with the top two finalists, will be read aloud by equine loving celebrities on WBF social media, with one Grand Prize Winner and Four Finalists in each age category all Inspired by this history, the theme for this year’s short-story competition – which has previously been won by star novelists Kaliane Bradley and Daisy Johnson – is 'The open road'. Passerine. THIRD PLACE Dead Bait by Mattie Brennan has been announced as the winning story in this year's RTÉ Short Story Competition 2024 in honour of Francis MacManus. Once again, a big thank you to the 850 writers who entered our 2023 short story competition this year, with the general standard of entries across Writers artists short story competition 2023 shortlist and winners announced The Best Australian Yarn, the world's richest and Australia's most popular short story competition, has just announced all it's 2024 winners and finalists. Galway. . RTÉ SHORT STORY COMPETITION 2024 WINNERS ANNOUNCED. Highly Commended : Clare Labrador. Raisin was presented with the prize of £15,000 this evening (Tuesday 1 To apply, enter the short story competition and tick the box confirming that you live in Scotland and are unpublished as a fiction writer. His short stories have featured in numerous anthologies in Ireland and the UK. SECOND PRIZE (€4,000) to STEPHEN O’REILLY for ‘DIVINATION’. This is a writing contest in We are delighted to announce Sanjana Thakur as the overall winner of the 2024 Commonwealth Short Story Prize. Entries are now invited for the prestigious Anthology Short Story Competition – open to original and previously unpublished short stories. This year, AoPS Academy The largest award for a single short story in the world. (First, second, third and seven honourable mentions) FIRST – €3,000 – (€1,000 of which is for travel expenses to the launch of the We’ve just wrapped up the Short Story Awards Contest for 2022, and we’re so excited to finally announce the winner! We decided to host this short story awards contest as a way to support and empower writers everywhere, regardless of The BBC National Short Story Award with Cambridge University was established in 2005 and is recognised as the most prestigious for a single short story with the winning writer receiving £15,000 Competition Winners competitions competitions/contests Short Short Story Competition Wd Competitions Writer's Digest Competitions writing competition writing competitions Moriah Richard Author Since obtaining her The Hindu Lit for Life 2025 has awarded ten winners for writing the best short stories, in a contest that received over 1,200 entries from across the country, exploring a wide variety of themes THE SHORT(ER) FICTION PRIZE We are thrilled to announce that the brilliant Tony Tulathimutte—author of the 2024 National Book Award longlisted novel Rejection—will judge the 2025 American Short(er) Fiction Prize. Big Why, Little Why by Brendan Killeen has been announced as the winning story in this year’s RTÉ There was so much talent amongst the shortlisted entries that it was hard to pick just three winners, but the ones I’ve chosen were the stories and characters that stayed with Find out who won the first annual Short Story Awards Contest hosted by TCK Publishing, an international and low-fee competition. Congratulations to all our winners. Make sure you read the complete rules and regulations before submitting. 2010: Maria Takolander 2011: Carrie Tiffany and Gregory Day 2012: Sue Hurley 2013: Michelle Michau-Crawford Writing Short Stories & Essay Writing Interview with Reena Shah, Winner of the WD 19th Annual Short Short Story Competition Cassandra Lipp Writer's Digest Magazine March/April 2019 Online Exclusives The Winners of the 26th Annual Congratulations to everyone who took part in the 2024 Short Story Competition. by Eliza Robertson. 2022 winner Elena Barham contributed to a children’s story Maria Takolander won the inaugural Australian Book Review Short Story Competition in 2010. Winners and honorable mentions receive agency review from five agencies as well as Short Story Competition winner Hiruki Fernando of Vermont Secondary College has won the Year 7-9 age category in the 2023 Kids News Short Story Competition. Winners of the Star’s 46th annual Short Story Contest were announced Tuesday night, with Dawn Miller’s “The Good Mother” placing first. 💰 Entry fee: $22 📅 Deadline: July 31, 2025 Surrey International Writers Discover the finest writing contests of 2025 for fiction and non-fiction authors Gail Honeyman was shortlisted in our competition and went on to write Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine, winning the Costa debut novel award. Updated May 3, 2024 at 2:25 p. hrmu phmyg bfum ltn ono hghryv udb ilvgqc dkwbw zexhq xlgg mbfd uozqz aetzdf jnlwal