Short Story

Do you have a knack for conjuring up sinister plots, capturing the perfect crime, or documenting deadly deeds? If so, this is your chance to showcase your talent. Glencairn Crystal, the maker of the world’s favourite whisky glass – the...

InkWellness is for everyone. Trauma, depression, anxiety, and stress are not localized to any specific group or situation. Everyone deserves a safe way to express their experiences and discover new understandings and insights into themselves to begin to heal. Creative writing is...

Call for Submissions: Volume 3, Issue 1: The Guitar Issue “Ziggy played guitar Jamming good with Weird and Gilly And the Spiders from Mars” ~David Bowie, “Ziggy Stardust” Submission Guidelines: Please read the full posting carefully. Failure to follow the...

For the fourth year, The Masters Review is open for submissions of literary prose chapbooks! We’re interested in collections of flash fiction, creative nonfiction essays, short stories, and anything in-between. We encourage you to be bold, to experiment with style and form,...

ABOUT THE PRIZE Supported by the Malcolm Robertson Foundation, and named after the late Neilma Gantner, this prize seeks excellent short fiction of up to 3000 words themed around the notion of ‘travel’; imaginative, creative and literary interpretations are strongly...

If you write historical or mythology-inspired short fiction, and are 18 years old or above, you can enter a story of between 1,500 and 2,000 words to win some great prizes from World History Encyclopedia and Oxford University Press! Our...

Do you have a short story or the first chapter of a novel that has a dystopian theme? If so, we want to hear from you! Pro Publisher is pleased to announce a brand new dystopian fiction competition designed for...

The Commonwealth Short Story Prize is an annual award for unpublished short fiction administered and funded by the Commonwealth Foundation. The story should be adult fiction. There are no restrictions on setting, genre or theme. The 2024 Prize will open for submissions from 1...

The theme of this anthology is Horror and Ghost Stories Dive into the realm of spine-tingling tales with our “Horror & Ghost Stories” Short Stories Anthology! Calling all writers and storytellers: Unleash your creativity and send us your most chilling narratives....

The César Egido Serrano Foundation periodically calls for an International Short Story Contest that is part of the activities that the Foundation carries out to achieve its objective, which is none other than that the word is the tool against...