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https://crankedanvil.co.uk/ourcompetitions/ You have til the last day of June midnight to submit a play Enter – Play Writing Congratulations on writing your 10 – 20 minute audio play (or plays!) Now all you need to do is enter them into the competition! Select the correct pay button below...

https://www.bluepencilagency.com/short-story-prize-2026 I'm thinking maybe short stories that are adjacent to novel ideas could be a trend.

https://scottishartstrust.submittable.com/submit https://www.scottishartstrust.org/flash?ss_source=sscampaigns&ss_campaign_id=69f9c3d2940349517a5cf13a&ss_email_id=69f9f584f09a4b18efa44725&ss_campaign_name=Edinburgh+Flash+Fiction+Awards+Are+Now+Open&ss_campaign_sent_date=2026-05-05T13%3A50%3A26Z

I hate it when I run across a comp too late for me to enter. But I thought these winners needed a little fanfare and hopefully this will run again in 2026. https://fictionprize.worldhistory.org/2025-results

Most people on here concentrate on novels tho we do work on FF, short stories and poetry esp for competitions. So I thought a thread where people can bring competitions or what they use in writing short stories.

https://irishcountrymagazine.ie/short-story/ https://www.irelandsown.ie/irelands-own-writing-competition-2025/ The first will be slightly literary-see present winners. The 2nd explicitly says, NO SALLY ROONEY WANNABES

This seems like an interesting community to join...

relevant to songwriters ie poets and those thinking of audiobooks in their future. https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/jul/29/how-to-quit-spotify-music-alternatives-apple-youtube-amazon-tidal-ntwnfb

https://www.galleybeggar.co.uk/prize

For those who need that deadline push to finish and write The End https://www.writing.ie/writing-comps/the-moth-short-story-prize-2025/ https://www.writing.ie/writing-comps/anthology-personal-memoir-competition/ https://www.writing.ie/writing-comps/rte-short-story-competition-2025/...

This is a contest with Gotham Writers - a writing school in NYC who also does online classes. I've taken 6 online classes with them, and they've all been great. Not a bad prize really... 10 words for a free class. Here's the contest from their site: It may be apocryphal, but the story goes...

Short stories consume you faster. They're connected to brevity. With the short story, you are up against mortality. I know how tough they are as a form, but they're also a total joy. Ali Smith

I have just learned there are places that will pay you actual money for stories. Something Claire G knows already. This is apparently a good site to find those places...

Hello! Some of you were lovely enough to critique a 700 word flash piece I did recently. Along with the incredible feedback from yourselves and others, and a desire to expand it to a 2-3k short story, I am struggling with keeping the essence of the story in while trying to expand it out. I've...

A short story is a love affair; a novel is a marriage. Lorrie Moore

Helpful article shared courtesy of the link posted on another thread By @EricaVerrillo. I thought I'd just fetch it out for its own place under the spotlight. William Shunn : Manuscript Format : Short Story

Litopians! It's time to submit your short work! There are three dozen calls for submissions with deadlines in September. All of these markets pay writers. As always, there are calls for a wide variety of genres and styles. Short stories, essays, interviews, poems, and flash fiction are all...