Short story competitions 2023

[UPDATED 6/6] It’s that time again, when writers everywhere are filled with a fresh New Yearsy resolve to polish up those unfinished short stories and put work out into the world. Besides inspiration, determination and a decent supply of snacks, you also need some idea of where to aim for when ready. And so I present to you a bumper crop of competitions currently open for entries in Ireland and the UK.

Last year, a few people contacted me to let me know they’d placed in competitions (or indeed won, whoop!) as a result of my lists. If anyone has any luck this year, do please let me know in the comments below – these victories need to be celebrated.

Quite a few of the regular annual competitions have yet to confirm their details, but I’ll update the list as they do so you might want to pop back occasionally. And as always, check out the small print for yourself to make sure you’re happy with what you’re entering. Best of luck!

• Bournemouth Writing Prize 2023
• Closing date: January 27
• Prizes: 1st place £500, plus feedback on a sample of your work (short story or a short extract from your novel) from a commissioning editor or agent and a professionally produced recording of your work for your website. Shortlisted writers will be considered for anthology publication
• Judges: include Greyhound Literary agent Julia Silk and Hutchinson Heinemann senior commissioning editor Ansa Khan Khattak
• Word limit: 3,000 words
• Theme: none
• Entry fee: £7 per entry, multiple entries permitted. Open internationally

• Cúirt New Writing Prize 2023 – Short Fiction
• Closing date: January 30 (5pm)
• Prize: €500 and the opportunity to read at the Cúirt International Festival of Literature, which takes place in Galway, April 17-23
• Judge: novelist Donal Ryan
• Word limit: 2,000 words
• Theme: none
• Entry fee: €10 per entry, multiple entries permitted. There are 35 subsidised entries available, on application. Open internationally (though travel expenses will not be provided to attend the festival)

• ChipLitFest Short Story Competition 2023
• Closing date: February 5
• Prizes: 1st place £1,000, 2nd place £250, 3rd place £100. The three winning stories will be published on the Chipping Norton Literary Festival website (the festival takes place April 27-30)
• Judge: literary agent Antony Harwood
• Word limit: 2,500 words or 5,000 words
• Theme: none
• Entry fee: £8 for stories of up to 2,500 words, £10 for stories up to 5,000 words, mutiple entries permitted. Some sponsored free entries are available for low-income writers, on application. Open internationally

• Writers’ & Artists’ Short Story Competition 2023
• Closing date: February 14
• Prize: a place on an Arvon residential writing course in the UK worth £850. The winning story will also be featured on the Writers’ & Artists’ website
• Judge: writer Naomi Booth
• Word limit: 2,000 words
• Theme: ‘Love’
• Entry fee: free to enter, you just have to register for a free account on the Writers’ & Artists’ Yearbook site, one entry only. Open internationally, though travel costs will not be provided if you win a place

• From the Well Short Story Competition 2023
• Closing date: February 17 (5pm)
• Prizes: the winner and two runners-up will be invited to read at the 2023 West Cork Literary Festival in Bantry (July 7-14). The top twenty stories will be published in the annual From the Well anthology
• Judges: doesn’t say but the head judge is usually writer Billy O’Callaghan
• Word limit: 2,000 words
• Theme: none
• Entry fee: free to enter, one entry only. Open to registered library members in Ireland

• Maria Edgeworth Literary Festival Short Story Competition 2023
• Closing date: February 24 (5pm)
• Prizes: 1st place €500, 2nd place €200, 3rd place €100
• Judges: doesn’t say
• Word limit: 2,000 words
• Theme: none
• Entry fee: €5 per story. Appears to be open internationally

• CWA/Margery Allingham Short Mystery Competition 2023
• Closing date: February 28 (6pm)
• Prize: £500 plus two weekend passes to CrimeFest 2023 (May 11-14) in Bristol, UK, run by the Crime Writers’ Association
• Judges: doesn’t say
• Word limit: 3,500 words
• Theme: a mystery that fits into crime writer Allingham’s definition of what makes a great story: “The Mystery remains box-shaped, at once a prison and a refuge. Its four walls are, roughly, a Crime, a Mystery, an Enquiry and a Conclusion with an Element of Satisfaction in it.”
• Entry fee: £12 per entry, mutiple entries permitted. Open internationally

• Exeter Writers 14th Short Story Competition
• Closing date: February 28
• Prizes: 1st place £700, 2nd place £350, 3rd place £200. There is also a £100 prize for the best entry by a Devon-based writer
• Judges: doesn’t say
• Word limit: 3,000 words
• Theme: none
• Entry fee: £7 per entry, multiple entries permitted. Open internationally

Judge Ian Rankin

• Scottish Arts Club Short Story Competition
• Closing date: February 28
• Prizes: 1st place £3,000, 2nd place £500, 3rd place £250. This year there is also a category called Mango for humorous stories. And there is a £750 Isobel Lodge Award for unpublished writers living or studying in Scotland. At least twenty stories will be included in the anthology. The Scottish Arts Club will present one year free membership of the Club to the finalists
• Judges: chief judge is author Ian Rankin
• Word limit: 2,000 words
• Theme: none, though the Mango category is for stories that fit the description of ‘fun, amusing, bizarre and as delicious as a mango’ (they will also be in the running for the main prize)
• Entry fee: £10 per entry, multiple entries permitted. Open internationally

• Flash 500 Short Story Competition
• Closing date: February 28
• Prizes: 1st place £500, 2nd place £200, 3rd place £100
• Judge: novelist Sue Moorcroft
• Word limit: 1,000-3,000 words
• Theme: none
• Entry details: £7 for one story, £12 for two, £16 for three, £20 for four. There is also an option to receive a critique for £25 per story. Open internationally

• The Alpine Fellowship Writing Prize 2023
• Closing date: March 1
• Prizes: 1st place £3,000. Two runners-up will receive travel expense support of £1,000 that must be used to attend The Alpine Fellowship 2023 Symposium (a charitable foundation that supports, commissions and showcases artists, writers, academics and playwrights), which will be held August 10-13 in Fjällnäs, Sweden
• Judges: doesn’t say
• Word limit: 2,500 words
• Theme: ‘Flourishing’
• Entry fee: appears to be free to enter, one entry only permitted in each category (prose, poetry etc). Open internationally

• Fowey Festival/ Daphne du Maurier Short Story Competition for Adults
• Closing date: March 5
• Prizes: 1st place £250, 2nd place £100. The official prizegiving will be at the Fowey Festival of Arts and Literature (May 12-20), which celebrates the life and work of Daphne du Maurier. The winning entries will be published on the website
• Judge: doesn’t say
• Word limit: 1,500 words
• Theme: stories must have the title ‘I’ll Never Be Young Again’, inspired by the title of du Maurier’s second novel, published in 1932
• Entry fee: £10 per story, one entry only. Open internationally

• Bryan MacMahon Short Story Award
• Closing date: March 6
• Prize: 1st place €1,000 (this competition is run as part of Listowel Writers’ Week, which takes place May 31-June 4)
• Judge: novelist Niamh Boyce
• Word limit: 3,000 words
• Theme: none
• Entry fee: €10 per story, multiple entries permitted. I presume it’s open inernationally as I see no mention of restrictions

• The Evesham Festival of Words 2023 Short Story Competition
• Closing date: March 10 (5pm)
• Prizes: 1st place £200, 2nd place £100, 3rd place £75. The winning stories will, with the authors’ permission, be published on the Evesham Festival website
• Judge: author Alison Jean Lester
• Word limit: 2,200 words
• Theme: none
• Entry fee: £5 per entry, multiple entries permitted. Open internationally

• The Henshaw Short Story Competition
• Closing date: March 31
• Prizes: 1st place £200, 2nd place £100, 3rd place £50. The winning stories will be published on the website and in the fifth Henshaw Press Anthology
• Judge: doesn’t say, but Henshaw Press is described as ‘a small group of writers, editors, lecturers and of course readers who wish to actively support creative writing’
• Word limit: 2,000 words
• Theme: none
• Entry fee: £6 per entry, multiple entries permitted. There’s also an option to receive a critique for an extra £14. Open internationally

• Bath Short Story Award 2023
• Closing date: April 24
• Prizes: 1st place £1,200, 2nd place £300, 3rd place £100. There’s also the Acorn Award of £100 for a previously unpublished writer of fiction. The top twenty stories will be published in the annual print and digital anthology
• Judge: Farhana Shaikh, writer, teacher and Managing Editor of independent publishers Dahlia Books
• Word limit: 2,200 words
• Theme: none
• Entry fee: £9 per entry, multiple entries permitted. There are a limited number of free places available, on application. Open internationally

• 2023 Bristol Short Story Prize
• Closing date: April 26
• Prizes: 1st place £1,000, 2nd place £500, 3rd place £250. Seventeen prizes of £100 will be awarded to the shortlisted writers. The Sansom Award will be presented to the highest placed story by a Bristol writer. The top twenty stories will be published in the Bristol Short Story Prize Anthology Volume 16
• Judges: literary agent with The Good Literary Agency Abi Fellows, editor, writer, and creative producer Heather Marks, and writer and independent bookshop manager Daniel Ross
• Word limit: 4,000 words
• Theme: none
• Entry fee: £9 per entry, multiple entries permitted. Some free entries are available on application. Open internationally

• Desperate Literature Prize for Short Fiction
• Closing date: EXTENDED TO April 30
• Prizes: 1st place €1,500, a week’s residency at the Civitella Ranieri Foundation in Italy, a consultation with literary agent Charlotte Seymour from Johnson & Alcock in London and a manuscript assessment and follow-up meeting with a literary editor from The Literary Consultancy. Two runners-up will each win €750. One shortlisted writer will be offered a spot at the Tbilisi International Festival of Literature, Georgia, along with a ten-day residency at the Writers’ House of Georgia. A travel stipend of €400 will be provided. All shortlisted writers will be published in a limited-edition book, which will be launched at the Desperate Literature Short Fiction Prize Salon, Madrid, Spain. They will also be published by one of Desperate Literature’s partner journals: Helter Skelter, The London Magazine,Open Pen, Prototype, Hotel, Kill Your Darlings or Minor Literature[s]. There will be opportunities for participation in prize salons at Desperate Literature, Madrid; Burley Fisher, London and Typewronger Books, Edinburgh
• Judges: writers Mariana Enríquez, Ottessa Moshfegh and Tiffany Tsao
• Word limit: 2,000 words
• Theme: none
• Entry fee:  €20 for the first entry, €10 for every further entry up to a max of five entries permitted. There are also some free and reduced-fee entries available for low-income writers, on application by April 1. Open internationally

• Mairtín Crawford Award 2023
• Closing date: April 30
• Prizes: 1st place £500 and a ‘Time to Write’ package, which includes a three-night stay at the Bullitt Hotel Belfast, and a dedicated writing space for four days in The Crescent arts centre, Belfast. Two runners up will receive a £250
• Judges: doesn’t say
• Word limit: 2,500 words
• Theme: none
• Entry fee: £6 per entry. Some free entries available on application. Open to writers who were born in, are citizens of or resident in Ireland or UK

• The 2023 Bloom Writing Contest – Short Story
• Closing date: May 1
• Prizes: 1st place €500. The winner will be showcased in The European Literary Review, The European Society of Literature’s quarterly magazine. The winner will also have their own author showcase in the journal discussing their life, aspirations, literature, motivations etc, but this is optional, and not required. The shortlisted entries will also be showcased in the magazine, along with some selected pieces from the longlist
• Judges: ‘The European Society of Literature’s competition team is made up of writers, authors, journalists, avid readers and people within the field of literature’
• Word limit: 2,500 words, no minimum
• Theme: ‘Beauty’. Named after the late Harold Bloom, a renowned literary critic and scholar, the contest will place heavy emphasis on works of deep meaning, aesthetic beauty and literary quality (essays and poems also accepted)
• Entry fee: €3 per entry, multiple entries permitted. Open internationally

• RTE Short Story Competition 2023
• Closing date: May 26
• Prizes: 1st place €5,000, 2nd place €4,000, 3rd place €3,000. Shortlisted authors will each receive €250. All shortlisted and winning stories will be recorded for RTÉ Radio 1 and voiced by actors
• Judges: writer and filmmaker Ferdia MacAnna, and authors Kathleen MacMahon and Claire Kilroy
• Word limit: 1,800-2,000 words
• Theme:  none
• Entry fee: free to enter, one entry only. Open to writers resident on the island of Ireland, or, if living abroad, holders of an Irish passport

• Bridport Prize for Short Story
• Closing date: May 31
• Prizes: 1st place £5,000, an invitation to take part in the awards celebration and feedback from the judges and Bridport Prize professional partners. 2nd place £1,000, 3rd place £500, both with an invitation to the awards ceremony. Ten Highly Commended stories will be awarded £100 each. All the winning and highly commended pieces will be published in an anthology and entered into the Sunday Times Audible competition, top prize £30,000. Literary agency AM Heath will read all the shortlistees and consider representation
• Judge: not yet revealed
• Word limit: 5,000 words (no minimum requirement)
• Theme: none
• Entry fee: £14 per entry, multiple entries permitted. Open internationally

• Yeovil Literary Prize for Short Story
• Closing date: May 31
• Prizes: 1st place £600, 2nd place £250, 3rd place £125
• Judge: writer and publisher Steven Kay
• Word limit: 2,000 words
• Theme: none
• Entry fee:  £8 per entry, multiple entries permitted. Open internationally

• Molly Keane Award 2023
• Closing date: June 2 (12 midday)
• Prize: 1st place €250 cash plus a course of the winner’s choice in the Molly Keane Writers Retreat, Ardmore, Co Waterford in 2024 to the value of €300
• Judges: doesn’t say
• Word limit: 2,000 words
• Theme: none
• Entry fee: free to enter, one entry only. Open to writers resident on the island of Ireland

• Write By The Sea Short Story Competition
• Closing date: June 4
• Prizes: 1st place €500, a hand-crafted trophy and a weekend pass to the Write By The Sea festival 2023, Kylemore Quay, Wexford (September 22-24). The winner will also be invited to read at the festival, and their story will be published on the website. 2nd place €200, 3rd place €100
• Judges: doesn’t say
• Word limit: 2,500 words
• Theme: none
• Entry fee: €10 per entry (€25 for three in any of the four categories), multiple entries permitted. Open internationally

• WestWord Prize for Short Stories
• Closing date: June 25
• Prizes: 1st place £300, 2nd place £200, 3rd place £100. All winning, shortlisted and longlisted stories will be published in the online anthology WestWord, a new literary journal published by Retreat West
• Judges: WestWord editorial team
• Word limit: 1,000-2,500 words
• Theme: ‘Wild’
• Entry fee: £10 per entry, multiple entries permitted. There’s also an option to get feedback for £40 per entry. Open internationally

• Wells Festival of Literature 2023 Short Story Competition
• Closing date: June 30
• Prizes: 1st place £750, 2nd place £300, 3rd place £200. Plus £100 for a local author. The prize giving will take place on October 30 as part of the Wells Festival of Literature (October 27-November 4) in Somerset
• Judge: novelist Claire Fuller
• Word limit: 1,000-2,000 words
• Theme: none
• Entry fee:  £6 per entry, multiple entries permitted. Open internationally

• The Moth Magazine Short Story Prize 2023
• Closing date: June 30
• Prizes: 1st place €3,000, 2nd place a week at Circle of Misse writing retreat in France plus a travel stipend, 3rd place €1,000
• Judge: writer Otessa Mosfegh
• Word limit: 3,000 words
• Theme: none
• Entry fee:  €15 per entry, multiple entries permitted. Open internationally

• The Henshaw Press Short Story Competition
• Closing date: June 30 (this competition runs quarterly and has just been taken over by Hobeck Books)
• Prizes: 1st place £200 and publication in an anthology and on the website, 2nd place £100, 3rd place £50
• Judges: doesn’t say
• Word limit: 2,000 words
• Theme: none
• Entry fee: £6 per entry with the option of a critique for an extra £14, with proceeds donated to Medecins sans Frontiers. Open internationally

• 2023 Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize
• Closing date: June 30 (5pm)
• Prizes: 1st place £1,000. The winner and all shortlistees will be published in Wasafiri magazine, and offered career development support through prize partners The Literary Consultancy and The Good Literary Agency
• Judge: writer Leila Aboulela
• Word limit: 3,000 words
• Theme: none
• Entry fee: £10 for one entry, £16 for two, £6 for a single subsidised entry. Open internationally

Can you write a funny story?

• To Hull and Back Humorous Short Story Competition 2023
• Closing date: June 30
• Prizes: 1st place £1,200 and a motorbike ride (yes, you are reading that correctly, check out the website as it’s too odd to explain here), 2nd place £600, 3rd place £300. Three Highly Commended stories will win £150, fourteen shortlisted will win £75. Twenty longlisted writers will win a free early-bird entry to the next competition (scheduled for 2025, worth £13). The winners and shortlisted entries will be published in the To Hull And Back Short Story Anthology, both as a print edition and ebook
• Judge: writer Christopher Fielden
• Word limit: 2,500 words
• Theme: no set theme, but stories must have some element of humour
• Entry fee: early bird fee until March 31 of £13 for one entry, £21 for two, £26 for three. Thereafter it’s £15 for one entry, £24 for two, £30 for three. Open internationally

• The Dorothy Dunnett Society / HWA Short Story Award 2023
• Closing date: July 1
• Prizes: 1st place £500, mentoring sessions with an author and an agent, as well as publication in Whispering Gallery magazine published by the Dorothy Dunnett Society, and on the Historia magazine website. Two Highly Commended writers will also be offered mentoring. Six shortlisted writers will have their stories published as an ebook / print on demand edition by the HWA (Historical Writers’ Association) and Dorothy Dunnett Society via Amazon. Each shortlisted author will receive two print copies and a £25 author payment
• Judges: doesn’t say
• Word limit: 3,500 words
• Theme: none, but stories must be set at least 35 years in the past. The organisers would particularly welcome stories set  the 11th, 15th and 16th centuries, the periods in which Dorothy Dunnett set her stories, as 2023 is her centenary year
• Entry fee: £5 per entry, one entry only. Some free spots available on enquiry. Open internationally

• The Guardian and 4th Estate 4thWrite Short Story Prize 2023
• Closing date: July 2
• Prizes: 1st place £1,000, and publication on the Guardian website. The winner will also receive a one-day 4th Estate workshop with Editorial, Publicity and Marketing
• Judges: authors Bolu Babalola and Cecile Pin, features director at Harper’s Bazaar and founder of East Side Voices Helena Lee, literary agent at Felicity Bryan Associates Angelique Tran Van Sang, Fiction Editor at the Guardian Justine Jordan and Publishing Director at 4th Estate Kishani Widyaratna
• Word limit: 6,000 words
• Theme: none
• Entry fee: free to enter, one entry only. Open to Black, Asian and minority ethnic writers living in the UK or Ireland

• The London Magazine Short Story Prize 2023
• Closing date: July 5
• Prizes: 1st place £500, 2nd place £300, 3rd place £200
• Judges: publisher Tom Conaghan, and writers Eley Williams and RZ Baschir
• Word limit: 2,500 words
• Theme: none
• Entry fee: £10 for one story, £5 for any subsequent entries, student/low-income entry £5 per story. Open internationally

• HG Wells Short Story Competition 2023
• Closing date: July 10 (11pm)
• Prizes: 1st place £500 for the Senior category (aged 22 or above) and £1,000 for the Junior prize (aged up to 21). All shortlisted entries will be published in an anthology in paperback and on Kindle
• Judges: doesn’t say
• Word limit: 1,500-5,000 words
• Theme: ‘Motion’
• Entry fee: £10 per entry for the Senior category or £5 for those with student ID. The Junior category is free. Open internationally

• The Wreckin Writers Doris Gooderson Short Story Competition 2023
• Closing date: July 12
• Prizes: 1st place £200, 2nd place £100, 3rd place £50. The winning entries may be published in the next Wrekin Writers anthology and on the Wrekin Writers website
• Judges: doesn’t say
• Word limit: 1,200 words
• Theme: none
• Entry fee: £5 per story, multiple entries permitted (at least 50% of the profits are donated to the Severn Hospice). Open internationally

• Aurora Prize for Writing 2023
• Closing date: July 19
• Prizes: 1st place £500, feedback on a piece of work from a literary agent (or editor as appropriate) and a year’s free membership to the Society of Authors. Winners will also receive a session with Society of Authors staff, including an introduction to how the Society can support them in their careers as professional authors. 2nd place £150. 3rd place a one-day course of your choice from Writing School East Midlands. The longlist of 25 will be published online (writers can choose whether they want full story or just the title to appear) and the shortlist of 10 will be offered a place on an online masterclasses with the judge
• Judge: author Joanna Cannon
• Word limit: 2,000 words
• Theme: none
• Entry fee: £9 for one story, £7 for any subsequent entries. Open internationally

• Seán O’Faoláin International Short Story Competition 2023
• Closing date: July 31
• Prizes: 1st place €2,000, a weeklong residency at the Anam Cara Writers’ Retreat in Beara, west Cork and a featured reading at the Cork International Short Story Festival in September (with four-night hotel stay and full board). 2nd place €500. Four runners-up will receive €250. The winners and runners-up will be published in Southword
• Word limit: 3,000 words
• Judge: TBA
• Theme: none
• Entry fee: €19 per entry, multiple entries permitted. Open internationally

• Silver Apples Magazine Redemption 3: This Time It’s Personal Short Story Writing Competition
• Closing date:  August 15
• Prizes: 1st place €200, 2nd place €125, 3rd place €75. The winners and nine shortlisted stories will be published in a special issue of Silver Apples Magazine titled ‘Redemption III’
• Judges: doesn’t say
• Word limit: 1,500-4,000 words
• Theme: none, but this competition is about ‘redemption’ for stories that have previously been rejected, so submissions must have been turned down by other magazines/ journals/ competitions
• Entry fee:  €10 per story. Appears to be open internationally

• Hysteria Short Story Competition 2023
• Closing date: August 31
• Prizes: 1st place £300. The winner and nine additional entries will be included in the Hysteria 10 anthology, to be published in December
• Judges: readers’ panel here
• Word limit:  1,000 words
• Theme: ‘Magic’
• Entry fee: £3 per story, multiple entries permitted. Open internationally

• Anthology Magazine Short Story Competition 2023
• Closing date: August 31
• Prizes: 1st place €1,000, publication in Anthology and a one-year subscription to the magazine. 2nd place €250, 3rd place €150
• Judges: doesn’t say
• Word limit: 1,500 words
• Theme: none
• Entry fee: early bird entry of €12 per story until April 30, thereafter €18 per story, multiple entries permitted. Open internationally

• Aesthetica Creative Writing Award 2023
• Closing date: August 31
• Prizes: 1st place £2,500, publication in the Aesthetica Creative Writing Annual, a five-day course with Arvon, a consultation with Redhammer Management, and a one-year print subscription to Granta magazine and digital subscription to Mslexia. The twenty shortlisted writers will be published in the Annual
• Judges: quite a long list of writers and agents here
• Word limit: 2,000 words
• Theme: none
• Entry fee: early bird entry of £9 until January 14, thereafter £18 per entry, multiple entries permitted. Open internationally

• Manchester Fiction Prize 2023
• Closing date: September 1 (5pm)
• Prize: 1st place £10,000
• Judges: chair of judges is writer Adam O’Riordan
• Word limit: 2,500 words
• Theme: none
• Entry fee: £18 per entry, 100 reduced fee entries (£10) available. Open internationally

• Mslexia Women’s Fiction Competition – Short Story
• Closing date: September 15
• Prizes: 1st place £3,000. Three additional finalists will each receive £100. The four winning entries will be published in the December edition of Mslexia magazine. They and eight additional shortlisted stories will also appear in Mslexia’s ebook anthology, Best Women’s Short Fiction 2023 
• Judges: novelist Deborah Moggach
• Word limit: 3,000 words
• Theme: none
• Entry fee: £12 per entry, multiple entries permitted . Open to women internationally

• Shooter Literary Magazine 2023 Short Story Competition
• Closing date: September 24
• Prizes: 1st place £400, publication in the autumn issue of Shooter Literary Magazine and on the website. 2nd place £100 and publication on the website
• Judges: doesn’t say
• Word limit: 5,000 words
• Theme: none
• Entry fee: £7 for one entry, £10 for two. Open internationally

• Hammond House Publishing 2023 International Literary Prize
• Closing date: September 30
• Prizes: 1st place £1,000, 2nd place £100, 3rd place £50. The winners and shortlisted stories will be published in an anthology
• Judges: doesn’t say
• Word limit: 1,000-5,000 words
• Theme: ‘Fate’
• Entry fee: £10 per entry, with optional feedback for £10. Open internationally

• The Bedford Short Story Competition 2023
• Closing date: October 31
• Prizes: 1st place £1,500, 2nd place £300, 3rd place £200. The winners and shortlisted stories will be published in an anthology
• Judges: list here
• Word limit: 3,000 words
• Theme: none
• Entry fee: £7.50 per entry, multiple entries permitted. Open internationally

PS. If you’re new to writing and/or submitting, you might find a useful tip or two in my post 6 Things I’ve Learned About Entering Competitions

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