Short Fiction Contests

Green Lady Award for Fiction

Green Lady Press is offering up-and-coming writers from around the world the chance to be published. We will award prizes for outstanding fiction, plus feature selected works in an online anthology for our launch. The theme is ‘resistance’ and we will be looking for innovative interpretations. Deadline is November 30th, midnight GMT. Winners and shortlisted entries will be announced in January 2015. The anthology will be made...

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PRISM international writing contests

All contests: Each entry includes a one-year subscription or subscription extension for PRISM international, beginning with the contest issue (Spring 2015 for Non-Fiction and Summer 2015 for Fiction/Poetry). All 1st prize winners will be published in PRISM, and runners-up will be published at the discretion of the editors. All other entries will be considered for publication as regular submissions (for the possibility of publication in other...

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The London Magazine’s Short Story Competition 2014

This annual international contest from the venerable London Magazine (first published 1732) is for stories of up to 4,000 words. Closing: October 31, 2014  Prizes : £500, £300, £200.  The winner will be published in the mag, and the runners-up on the website.                                                                                                                   Entry Fee:...

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Call for submissions to Big Pond Rumours, the Literary E-Zine

BIG POND RUMOURS is returning with both summer and winter issues! On hiatus since the Winter 2008 issue, this literary e-zine is coming back with a difference. We are still international but now you can make a regular submission (not considered for the contest) or you can submit to the contest (mark “Contest” on each poem or story). The contest pays the winners in addition to publishing them! 1st place for poetry or story $50, 2nd...

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TOM HOWARD/JOHN H. REID FICTION & ESSAY CONTEST

23rd year. Bigger prizes! Best short story wins $1,500. Best essay wins $1,500. Total prizes: $4,000. Winning entries published online. Fee: $16. Limit: 6,000 words per entry. Both published and unpublished work accepted. Submit by April 30, 2015. Final judge: Arthur Powers. See guidelines, past winners, and submit online at  https://www.winningwriters.com/tomstory 

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The Magic Oxygen Literary Competition

Our short story and poetry competition has an incredible prize fund of £3,000, which will be awarded to each category as follows: First Prize – £1,000 Second Prize – £300 Third Prize – £100 Two Highly Commended – £50 In addition, we will be planting a tree in Kenya for each entry, so every entrant is a winner! When the contest closes we will email the GPS co-ordinates of your tree to you. Brief guidelines: Short Stories up to 4,000 words,...

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