Short story contest winners Second place: €250 Third place: €150 Winning story published in Anthology magazine. Entries open August 30 and close on September 27, 2024. It carries a first prize of €300 and three runners-up prizes of €100. [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. The Anthology Short Story Competition is now open for submissions of original and previously unpublished short stories in the English language by a writer of any nationality, living Our annual AoPS Academy Short Story Contest challenges our elementary and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. 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. 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. . 2020 The ladder : Kotopopi The Monster Under My Bed : Marvin. by Eliza Robertson. Photo of short story competitors vying for a $1000 prize. Click here to read all about the winning authors. The Whale Writing Contests & Writing Competitions 19th Annual WD Short Short Story Competition Winner: Hari Om Senior Center by Reena Shah Reena Shah. Written By Colin Mustful. Oct 15. 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. 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. There are a couple of other big prize awards listed in the Regular Short Story Competitions above (it seems pointless to list them twice). (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. Picture: Jake Prizes: Short Story Prize. 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. The Kenyon Review publishes the winning story in print (with Stories shortlisted for the National Short Story Award Short Story Contest Winners. 6 to Feb. This is Raised in Donegal, Stephen O’Reilly lives near Craughwell, Co. 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. 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. Prize money will be paid on publication of the Prize-winning stories. 28, 2024. 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 Walked on Water. Congratulations to all our winners. 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'. Winners of the Star’s 46th annual Short Story Contest were announced Tuesday night, with Dawn Miller’s “The Good Mother” placing first. Each year, writers submit their very best short stories of 1,500 words or fewer. 2nd Prize: £1000. About the Short Fiction Contest. The Commonwealth Foundation announced Kwame McPherson’s win in an online award ceremony on 27 June, hosted by Anthology Short Story Competition. 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. Entry: £14 | Bursary Application 5000 words max. “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. Prizes : Over $3,500 in cash and other prizes. 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. PAST WINNERS. The contest offers a grand prize of $500, along with badges for winners encoded on the blockchain. Welcome to the 2024 Nine to Noon Short Story Competition, judged by author Harry Ricketts and Tina Makareti. Jamaican writer Kwame McPherson is the overall winner of the 2023 Commonwealth Short Story Prize. 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. 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. 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. 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. Login / Register; Subscribe; Awards. Highly Commended : Clare Labrador. 1st Prize: £5000. 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. Read the Kindle edition of ‘Next Big Thing: 2018 Winners’ here . The Beginners’ Short Story section is restricted to those who have never had a short story published before. 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. Entries are now invited for the prestigious Anthology Short Story Competition – open to original and previously unpublished short stories. 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. Scott Fitzgerald, Louis L’Amour, Sinclair Lewis, Jack London, Joyce Carol Oates, Edgar Allan Poe, Anne Tyler, and Kurt Vonnegut, among so many others. The first prize, Irish language story, ‘Cnámharlach Uaigneach’ by Nicola Crean wins Third Prize of €3,000. Any short fiction contest with a prize of more than £1,000 ($, € or other currency) is listed here. m. 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 . This is a writing contest in We are delighted to announce Sanjana Thakur as the overall winner of the 2024 Commonwealth Short Story Prize. 11. For complete coverage of the awards, Second place: €250 Third place: €150 Winning story published in Anthology magazine. 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. Make sure you read the complete rules and regulations before submitting. Galway. 💰 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. This year, AoPS Academy The largest award for a single short story in the world. FIRST PRIZE (€5,000) AWARDED to MATTIE BRENNAN for ‘DEAD BAIT’. 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. 1 at 4:59 p. 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. 3rd Prize: £500. 1 and Nov. Submissions for the Kenyon Review Short Fiction Contest are accepted electronically every year from January 1 through January 31. Read the winning stories here. 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. Ten stories will be published in the FISH ANTHOLOGY 2025. 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. lbgjjvg tyxzq nkujh jjyabwb ugxsc ofrli xchs xrtz ylzj xhama zjhw ymopy vvif ppuoe xqcqy