If you’re a Commonwealth citizen, you’ll want to take advantage of the free entry to this prestigious short story competition… The Commonwealth Writers initiative offers a substantial prize fund to the writer of the best piece of unpublished short fiction by a commonwealth writer. Regional winners are awarded a nice £2500 sum too, so there’s …
Feeling adventurous? Brought to you by famed South African novelist Wilbur Smith’s charitable foundation, this prize seeks to find the best unpublished adventure manuscript of the year. At 50,000 words, this is not a competition to complete in your spare time, but instead a fantastic chance for aspiring adventure writers to spread their unpublished novel. …
Probably the biggest competition on this list purely in terms of the amount of exposure that awaits any winner… An offshoot of the massively popular Costa Book Awards, the coffee giants introduced the Short Story Award in 2012, allowing unpublished writers to get in on the act. The lack of an entry fee, a sizable …
If you deeply feel like writing a short story and it seems you can’t just seem to be able to bring yourself to it, here are some tips that will help you be better at such writings. Review all of the information you have about what you’ll like to write about, verify that you can …