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Short Story Competition Longlist

Ali Smith, Toby Litt, Mark Haddon, Orange prize-winning Helen Dunmore, Adam Foulds, Sarah Hall and Booker Prize-winning Graham Swift, are among those in the running for the £30,000 Sunday Times EFG Private Bank Short Story Award - the richest prize in the world for an individual short story.

12 out of the 16 stories on the longlist come from UK- based authors. In its previous three years, the Award has not yet been won by a Briton, with the top prize going to New Zealand, the USA and Ireland so far.

From over 500 entries the judges have arrived at a longlist of 16 - six women and ten men.

The 16 longlisted writers and the titles of their short stories:

Caroline Adderson - 'Erection Man'   
Junot Diaz - 'Miss Lora' 
Helen Dunmore - 'Spotted Dick'
Adam Foulds - 'Tunnelling'
Mark Haddon - 'The Gun'
Sarah Hall - 'Evie'
Cynan Jones - 'The Dig'
Philomena Kearney Byrne - 'Honda Fifty'
Toby Litt - 'Call it "The Bug" Because I Have No Time to Think of a Better Title'
Belinda McKeon - 'Eyes on Me, Eyes on You'
Mark McNay - 'Ten Years Too Late'
C D Rose - 'Arkady Who Couldn't See and Artem Who Couldn't Hear'
Ali Smith - 'The Beholder'
Graham Swift - 'I Live Alone'
Claire Vaye Watkins - 'Rondine al Nido'
Samuel Wright - 'Best Friend'
 
The winner will receive £30,000, and the five other shortlisted writers will each receive £1,000. The shortlist will be announced in The Sunday Times on 24 February.

The winner will be announced at a gala dinner at The Sunday Times Oxford Literary Festival on 22 March.

Hello again, apologises for no blogs recently but I've had some personal things to deal with. Anyway here's a great short story competition from the Writers' and Artists' 2010 Yearbook for writers both published and unpublished.
Your story must be up to 2,000 words long and be about the theme of 'Unity or Union' it must also be aimed at adults. The winner will receive £500 in cash and a place on the Arvon Foundation residential writing course.

I was longlisted for the Writers' & Artists' Yearbook centenary novel writing competition so it's definitely worth having a go at entering!
The winning story will also be published on the W & A's website, no purchase is necessary although every budding writer will probably want an up-to-date Yearbook, and the competition is open to all ages and nationalities.
To enter you must first register on the publishers website at http://www.acblack.com/registration/, then email your story to [email protected] with 'WAYB10 competition' as the subject line by February 14th, 2010. One entry only per person.
For more details including full terms and conditions visit www.writersandartists.co.uk

Hello again, apologises for no blogs recently but I've had some personal things to deal with. Anyway here's a great short story competition from the Writers' and Artists' 2010 Yearbook for writers both published and unpublished.
Your story must be up to 2,000 words long and be about the theme of 'Unity or Union' it must also be aimed at adults. The winner will receive £500 in cash and a place on the Arvon Foundation residential writing course.

I was longlisted for the Writers' & Artists' Yearbook centenary novel writing competition so it's definitely worth having a go at entering!
The winning story will also be published on the W & A's website, no purchase is necessary although every budding writer will probably want an up-to-date Yearbook, and the competition is open to all ages and nationalities.
To enter you must first register on the publishers website at http://www.acblack.com/registration/, then email your story to [email protected] with 'WAYB10 competition' as the subject line by February 14th, 2010. One entry only per person.
For more details including full terms and conditions visit www.writersandartists.co.uk

Ramble Underground (US) is accepting entries for their seventh semi-annual short fiction contest. First prize: 35% of entry fees (US$100 min.); second prize: 15% of entry fees (US$50 min.) Length: 2500 words max. Entry fee: US$6. Also accepting regular submissions. Deadline: May 15, 2009. More details...

Newfoundland magazine Riddle Fence is accepting poetry, fiction and creative non-fiction for its fourth issue. Submit poems (3-4 poems) and prose (1 piece; 5000 words max.). Appreciates brilliance and innovation. Payment: $30 per page. Deadline: March 2, 2009. More details...

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INHOUSEPRESS invites short story entries for the 2009 Human Potential Writing Competition. Length: 1000 words max. Winner (first prize) will be published online. No entry fee. Deadline: March 28, 2009. More details...

Entries are invited for the 2009 Bristol Short Story Prize (UK). First prize: £500 plus £150 Waterstone's gift card; 19 other prizes available. Open to international writers. Length: 3000 words max. Winning 20 stories will be published in the 2009 Bristol Short Story Prize Anthology. Entry fee: £7. Deadline: March 31, 2009. More details...

Ramble Underground (US) is accepting entries for their semi-annual short fiction contest. First prize: 35% of entry fees (US$100 min.); second prize: 15% of entry fees (US$50 min.) Length: 2500 words max. Entry fee: US$6. Deadline: November 15, 2008. More details...

Ramble Underground (US) is accepting entries for their semi-annual short fiction contest. First prize:35% of entry fees (US$100 min.); second prize: 15% of entry fees (US$50 min.) Length: 2500 words max. Entry fee: US$6. Deadline: November 15, 2008. More details...

Skive Magazine (Australia) invites entries for the 4th annual Skive Short Story Prize. First prize: US$200. Submit stories 500-2000 words. Entries also considered for the June 2008 issue. New deadline: May 15, 2008. More details...

The Feathertale Review (ON) is now accepting short fiction, poetry and cartoon submissions to its third annual Review. Payment: yes, but amount not indicated. Deadline: April 15, 2008. More details...

Diaspora Dialogues invites submissions to its annual publishing/mentoring program. Open to emerging Toronto-area writers of short stories, creative nonfiction, plays, and poems. Settings of works must include the Greater Toronto Area. Approximately 15 writers will be chosen and each assigned (free of charge) to an established writer or dramaturge in a mentoring capacity. Selection of finished pieces will be published in the annual Diaspora Dialogues anthology, TOK: Writing the New Toronto. Deadline: May 9, 2008. More details...

Black Static is accepting horror stories for their next issue. Length: 8000 words max. Postal submissions only. More details...

Fish Publishing (Ireland) invites entries for their 2008 One-Page Short Story Prize. First prize: €1000 plus publication in the 2008 Fish Anthology; runners up: €100 and publication, plus five copies of the anthology. Winning authors invited to the launch during the West Cork Literary Festival in July 2008. Stories should be approximately 250 words (300 max.) Submissions made online. Entry fee: €12. Deadline: March 31, 2008. International entries welcome. More details...

Online journal Vibrant Gray seeks fiction, poetry, and non-fiction for its third issue. Publishes writing on the in-between: sex, politics, religion, culture, what falls through the cracks. Send up to six poems and/or one prose piece. Deadline: March 31, 2008. More details...

Annual journal Flint Hills Review (US) invites submissions of poetry, short fiction, plays, and literary non-fiction. Publishes work with a particular interest in region: place, ethnicity, gender, and memory. Deadline: March 31, 2008. Payment: one free copy and discounted additional copies. More details...

Newfoundland magazine Riddle Fence is accepting poetry, fiction and creative non-fiction for its second issue. Submit poems (3-4 poems) and prose (1 piece; 5000 words max.). Appreciates brilliance and innovation. Payment: $30 per page. Deadline: March 31, 2008. More details...