Short Story
Competitions
arranged in date order
Chapter One International Short Story
Competition
Closing date: Wednesday 14 January
2009
Prizes: £2,500, £1,000 & £500 plus publication. Entry fee:
£10 per story
Word Count: Maximum 2500 words. They say "we are on the lookout
for stories that capture the imagination in a beguiling and
original manner." Full details on website. chapteronepromotions.com/competitions/
Mslexia Women's Short Story
Competition
Closing Date: 23rd January 2009
Prizes: 1st - £,000,, 2nd - £500, 3rd - £250, plus 3 other
finalists will win £100 each. All winning stories will be
published in Mslexia magazine Entry fee: £8 per story.
Sories may be on any topic or theme up to 2,200 words. Full
details on the Mslexia website. mslexia.co.uk
Summer Mystery Short Story
Competition
Closing date: 26th January 2009
Prizes: Unspecified
Jacqueline Jeynes is hosting a short story competition in aid
of the British Heart Foundation. This is an excellent cause, so
come on, get writing. More details from: jjeynes@pencoedtextiles.co.uk
The Biscuit International Short Story Prize
2009
Closing date: 31st January 2009.
Prizes: First Prize £1,000 or have your own short story
collection published, and receive 75 books. The choice is
yours! Second Prize: £200, Third Prize: £150
The Top Seven stories will appear in an anthology.
The seven authors will receive a copy and be invited to read at
a Biscuit celebratory event in 2009. Entry fees: Short Stories:
£9 first story: additionals £5 each. You may submit as many
entries as you wish.
Stories from 1000 - 5000 words accepted. See full details on
website. biscuitpublishing.com/comp/competitions.htm
The Countryside Tales Annual Short Story Competition
2009
Closing date: 31st January 2009
Prizes: £75.00. £25.00. £15.00 Entry fee £3.00 per story.
Theme: ‘A Country Tale’. Length up to 2000 words. The winning
story will appear in the Spring 2009 issue of Countryside
Tales, which will be published during March 2009. Other
prize-winners, and selected short-listed entries, will appear
in subsequent issues. Go to the website, scroll down about 4
yards and you'll find the details.
parkpublications.co.uk/writingcompetion.htm
The West Country Writers’ Association Short Story
Competition
Closing date: 31 January 2009.
Prizes: The winner will receive £50 in cash and be invited to
spend 24 hours at the association’s next annual congress.
Entries can be on any subject or theme but must include the
phrase 'West Country' at least once. The entry fee is £5 per
story. Entries must be between 1,000 and 1,200 words. Download
entry form from website. westcountrywriters.com/events/
The 2009 Davy Byrnes Irish Writing
Award
Closing date: 2nd February 2009
Prizes: 1st E25,000 plus five runners up prizes of E1,000.
Entry fee: E10 per story. The contest is open to all residents
of Ireland who are invited to submit stories with no
restrictions on theme or word count. See website for more.
davybyrnesaward.org
New Writers' and Artists' Short Story
Competition
Closing date: 14th February 2009
Prizes: £500 cash, an Arvon Foundation residential course worth
£575 and publication of your story in Writers' and Artists'
Yearbook. (Wow!)
They want a grown-up story of up to 2,000 words on the theme
'Conflict' Register at their website. writersandartists.co.uk/
Grace Dieu Writers' Circle Open Short Story
Competition
Closing Date: 28th February 2009
Prizes: £300, £150, £75, £50 and £25. Entry fees: £5 then £3
per subsequent entries.
Stories up to 2,000 accepted. Winners and short-listed entries
will be published on the Grace Dieu website. Go there for Rules
and entry form. gracedieuwriterscircle.co.uk/
WritersReign Short Story Competition
Closing date: 28th February 2009
Prizes: 1st - £70, 2nd - £35, 3rd - £20. Entry fee: £3 per
story.
Write a story between 1,000 and 1,500 words on the theme 'O
Happy Day' Interpret this as you wish, but make your aim to
leave the reader (and the judges!) with that feel-good factor
and a happy outcome. Details on website. writersreign.co.uk/WR-Short-Story-Competition
Limnisa Writing Competition 2009
Closing date: 1st March 2009
Prizes: Prize: 1st - One week holiday in self catering Seaview
Apartment in Greece OR One week place at the Creative Writing
Conference held at Limnisa, a seaside location in Greece.
2nd - 50% discount on one week place at the Creative Writing
Conference held at Limnisa PLUS two months on-line coaching
with weekly exercises. 3rd - Fiver runners up get 25%
discount at the Writing Conference at Limnisa. The winners will
be published on the Limnisa Website and on a new Creative
Writers' Website for 'serious' writers, to be opened at the end
of 2008. Entry Fee: £5
This international contest is open worldwide and is for short
stories on any subject up to 3,000 words. limnisa.com/writingcompetitions
Wind In The Willows Short Story
Competition
Closing date: 15th of March 2009
Prizes: 1st Prize: £500 + Real Writers (fiction consultancy)
assessment.
Two other cash prizes for 2nd and 3rd selections. All three
winning stories will be published on the Museum's website and
available to readers online for 12 months. Stories can be a
maximum of 4,000 words.
To celebrate the centenary of 'The Wind in the Willows' and its
enduring appeal, the River & Rowing Museum is inviting
submissions of new river-related stories for a young 21st
century audience. We're hoping to find a 'Wind in the Willows'
for our times. The competition is part of this year's Henley
Literary Festival.
Website rrm.co.uk/short_story_competition.aspx
Flair For Words Short Story Competition
Closing date: 16th March 2009
Prizes: The winner will be awarded the total of all entry fees!
Talking of which, the Entry Fee is £3 per story.
Theme 'The Birthday Party'. Word count: up to 1,000. For entry
form send a C5 SAE to: Flair For Words, 14 Leonard Hackett
Court, St Winifreds Road, Meyrick Park, Bournemouth BH2 6PR
Jane Austen Short Story Award 2009
Closing date: 31st March 2009.
Prizes: First prize: £1,000. Two runners up: £200 each. All
three finalists will also win a week’s writers’ retreat at
Chawton House. Fifteen other shortlisted authors will receive
£40 plus publication in the winners’ anthology. Entry fee:
£10.
The competition celebrates the bicentenary of Jane Austen’s
arrival in the Hampshire village of Chawton where she spent the
most productive years of her literary life. Short stories of
2,000-2,500 words in length accepted. Full details on website.
chawton.org/competition
Winning Writers Present Tom Howard/John H. Reid Short
Story Contest
Closing date: March 31, 2009.
Prizes: First prize: $2,000. Second prize: $1,000. Third prize:
$500. Fourth prize: $250. There will also be five High
Distinction Awards of $200 each, and six Most Highly Commended
Awards of $100 each. The top 15 entries will be published on
the Winning Writers website. Entry Fee: $15 per entry.
What to Submit: Short stories, essays or other works of prose,
up to 5,000 words each. There are no restrictions on style or
theme. Each entry should be your own original work. winningwriters.com/contests/
Academy of Children's Writers 'Write a Story for
Children' Competition
Closing date: 31st March 2009
Prizes: 1st - £2,000, 2nd - £300 and 3rd - £200. Entry fee
£2.70 or 10 x 2nd class stamps (now there's a novelty, oh, and
they musn't be used ones!).
Stories up to 2,000 words suitable for children of any age up
to teenage. One entry per person. Entries must be accompanied
by an entry form which can be downloaded from website.
childrenswriters.co.uk
2009 Bristol Short Story Prize
Closing date: 31st March 2009.
Prizes: 1st £500 plus £150 Waterstone's gift card; 2nd £350
plus £100 Waterstone's gift card; 3rd £200 plus £100
Waterstone's gift card. A further 17 writers whose stories are
published in the Anthology will each receive a cheque for £50.
There is a £7 entry fee for each story submitted. Maximum
number of words is 3,000.
20 stories will be shortlisted and published in the 2009
Bristol Short Story Prize Anthology. Full details of the Prize
are available from bristolprize.co.uk
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