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Nobrow Short Story Competition/ How to Apply (Prize: £3750 + more)

A press that’s known for their visual publishing and their dedication to producing beautiful books, Nobrow has called for entries for their short story competition. The competition is worth over $4500, and is for a short story or creative non-fiction piece of not more than 3000 words on the theme of “The Censor”. According to...

Stories Of the Nature Of Cities Flash Fiction Contest/ How To Apply (Prizes: $6,500)

Writers are invited to submit a very short story (up to 750 words) for the Stories of the Nature of Our Cities Flash fiction contest. A total of $6,500 will be awarded to the best, unpublished City in a Wild Garden-themed story. Yes, you guessed it: the theme for this edition is City in a...

ServiceScape Award Open For Submissions — Apply

The ServiceScape Short Story Award is now open to all short story writers. Submit your work to them for free and possibly earn $1000 USD if you win the award. Prize/Awards: $1000 cash award Publication on the ServiceScape blog. How To Apply Any genre or theme of short story is accepted. All applicants should submit...

On The Premises Short Story Contest

To win this contest, write a creative, compelling, well-crafted story between 1,000 and 5,000 words long in which the concept of “darkness” plays an important role. You may interpret “darkness” any way you want–literally, metaphorically, or any other way. Darkness doesn’t have to have a value judgment attached to it, and it doesn’t have to...