The Writer

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The Claymore Award, sponsored by Killer Nashville, rewards authors of “unpublished English-language manuscripts containing elements of thriller, mystery, crime, or suspense” that are not currently under contract. These elements can also include manus

TIME

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THE SHORT STORY’S “RENAISSANCE” IS A TROPE THAT HAS BEEN TROTTED OUT by booksellers and commentators throughout the 21st century, though in fact the genre’s popularity has remained relatively steady. That said, this season brings a wave of writers wh

The Saturday Evening Post

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“I’m speechless,” said Fitz Gale when notified that her short story “Dust” had won first place in the 2022 Great American Fiction Contest and a prize of $1,000. “I’m still in shock that I’ll have a story in The Saturday Evening Post!” “Dust” was insp

Poets & Writers

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STONE CANOE Poetry Award FREE COMSTOCK REVIEW Muriel Craft Bailey Memorial Award LEDBURY POETRY FESTIVAL Poetry Competition RED MOUNTAIN PRESS Poetry Prize THE STORY PRIZE THE WORD WORKS Tenth Gate Prize NARRATIVE Poetry Contest STONE CANOE Fiction A

The Writer

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To join the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America, a writer needs to sell a work of short fiction for at least $.08 a word – a tall order when so many magazines struggle to pay contributors. Those speculative authors hoping to become SFWA-cert

The Atlantic

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Over the centuries, our magazine has prized great storytelling. Now we’re recommitting ourselves to publishing short fiction, beginning with a story by Lauren Groff.

The Writer

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Writer Clare Beams received significant recognition and acclaim for her 2016 short story collection We Show What We Have Learned, including nominations for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction and the Shirley Jackson Award for a Single-A

Poets & Writers

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PUSHCART PRESS Editors’ Book Award THE STORY PRIZE NARRATIVE 30 Below Contest NEW GUARD Poetry and Fiction Contests NOWHERE MAGAZINE Travel Writing Contest BELOIT POETRY JOURNAL Chad Walsh Chapbook Series BOA EDITIONS A. Poulin Jr. Poetry Prize BRUNE

The Big Issue

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Danish king of fairytales, whose original pre-Disneyfcation stories are surprisingly dark and profound. Arguably the greatest American short story chronicler of everyday epiphanies. The New Zealand-born Mansfeld broadened the horizons of the short st

The Saturday Evening Post

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“Holy smokes!” says Tasker on learning “Mount to the Sky” took first place in the 2019 Great American Fiction Contest, winning publication in the Post and online and a prize of $500. “As a longtime Fitzgerald nut, mostly for his short stories, I have

Writing Magazine

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With great upheaval comes great opportunities, writes Walsall Writers’ Circle committee member, Gary Smith. As with all writing groups, the pandemic has prevented us from meeting up face-to-face. However, this very problem has allowed us to think mor

The Writer

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An accomplished short story and essay writer, Kristen Arnett won the 2017 Coil Book Award for her debut short fiction collection, Felt in the Jaw. The highly anticipated release of Arnett’s debut novel, Mostly Dead Things, did not disappoint. The boo

Guernica Magazine

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The author of Her Body and Other Parties talks about queerness, writing good sex scenes, and what scares her the most.

Literary Hub

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Lord Chesterfield called the novel “a kind of abbreviation of a Romance.” Ian McEwan described the more compact novella as “the beautiful daughter of a rambling, bloated, ill-shaven giant.” William Trevor considered the short story “essential art.” W

Writer's Digest

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Looking for writing inspiration, Alexandra Hill found a prompt on NYC Midnight that gave a genre, location, and theme for a short story: horror, library, and loyalty. The prompt resulted in “A Life Measured in Moons,” which won Grand Prize in the 15t

Writing Magazine

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While the market for genre short stories might not be what it was in the peak of the golden age of SF and fantasy, there is still a wide range of magazines, ezines and anthologies constantly seeking genre fiction from new and established writers alik

Poets & Writers

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STONE CANOE Poetry Award COMSTOCK REVIEW Muriel Craft Bailey Award THE STORY PRIZE LEDBURY POETRY FESTIVAL Poetry Competition NARRATIVE Poetry Contest STONE CANOE Fiction Award SIXFOLD Poetry and Short Story Awards F(R)ICTION Short Story Contest HOWL

Writing Magazine

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The international The Bedford Competition 2022 has £1,000 first prizes for short stories and poetry. The story category is for original, unpublished short fiction up to 3,000 words. The winner will receive £1,000, and there are second and third prize

Writing Magazine

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The Lit Quarterly is a recently launched Canadian literary journal claiming to be the ‘Home to New and Emerging Voices’, publishing short fiction, poetry, and non-fiction. The 2020 edition is available online to read online. Submissions are always op

Writing Magazine

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The National Association of Writing Groups Open Competition has categories for poetry and short stories, each offering £200, £100 and £50 prizes. Enter unpublished short fiction, 500-2,000 words, and poems up to 40 lines. The entry fee is £5 per stor

Poets & Writers

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In August Atria Books will release Everyday People: The Color of Life, an anthology of short stories by emerging and established writers of color and indigenous people. Edited by Jennifer Baker, a writer and longtime advocate for minority representat

Global Voices

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"Jamaican language [...] is designed to subvert the English language. I love its frequent juxtaposition of archaic English words and African expressions and syntax, [...] used to sometimes devastating effect."

Writing Magazine

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The Friends of Manning’s Pit Saki Short Story Competition 2021 is inviting stories with a spark of wit that relate to wildlife or the countryside. The Manning’s Pit fields in Devon can be seen from the childhood bedroom of the celebrated short story

Literary Hub

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On October 7 a number of Brazilian presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro’s followers took photos of themselves voting with a gun at their side; the extreme right-wing candidate had said, as a campaign promise, that he would make the sale of firearms

Literary Hub

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This morning I took my cup of coffee and laptop to a desk to work on an old short story I’ve been kicking around when I made the greatest mistake any writer can make: I opened Facebook. Between posts on the current horrors of the Trump administration

Writing Magazine

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US biannual Consequences publishes writing which ‘addresses the human consequences and realities of war and geopolitical violence through literature and art’. It’s a painful read at times. The team hope that readers become ‘aware of the human consequ

Poets & Writers

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COMSTOCK REVIEWMuriel Craft Bailey Memorial Award GHOST STORY Screw Turn Flash Fiction Competition NARRATIVE Poetry Contest THE STORY PRIZE THE WORD WORKS Tenth Gate Prize SANTA FE WRITERS PROJECT Book Award SIXFOLD Poetry and Short Story Awards HIDD

Writing Magazine

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The Frome Festival Short Story Competition is an annual international creative writing contest for original, unpublished short fiction on any theme, between 1,000 and 2,200 words. The prizes for 2022 are £400, £200 and £100. There are also local firs

Writing Magazine

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The BBC National Short Story Award 2021 is inviting entries. The Award, which is one of the most prestigious for a single short story and is being produced in partnership with Cambridge University, has a first prize of £15,000. Four shortlisted autho

Writing Magazine

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Submissions of literary short stories of a maximum 10,000 words and novels and novellas of 25,000-50,000 words are invited by Oxford based Fairlight Books. Of most interest for this publisher is that ‘writing is of a good standard, the plot makes sen