Short Story Prize 2024 Longlist
Many thanks to everyone who sent in a LIGHT inspired story for this. We’ve enjoyed reading them all.
Congrats to the writers of the following 12 stories that have gone through to the longlist.
Longlisted Stories
A Guttering Candle
Grown-up Handwriting
In the Dark
In the Valley
Island Light
Listen, Peepaw
No Place Like Home
Our Mum
Sisters: Capturing the Light and Shade
Starstruck
The Light, How it Falls
The Raising of a Lockdown Golem
We’ll be back with the shortlist soon!
Submission opportunities
The extended deadline for the 1000 Word Photo comp is 12th January. Quick! The first Monthly Micro of 2025 also closes on 12th Jan.
The theme for Edition 8 of WestWord - publishing April 2025 - is ILLUSION. Send your short stories, flashes and micros by 31st January 2025. Submit here.
Our second annual Hermit Crab Prize closes in February. Cash prizes and publication for all shortlisted and winning writers. Our judge is Avitus B. Carle. Get all the info here and read previous winners here.
The first Folktale Flash Contest has an April deadline. I’m judging this one and winners and shortlisted writers get cash prizes and publication. Info here.
Plus submissions are always open for Short Story Spotlight, Story Sunday and Flash Focus!
Join our community
Want to join our community and get craft workshops and submissions to lots of our editions included? Membership starts at just £6 a month.
To give you an idea of what you can expect from the workshops I have removed the paywall on a previous one: Writing Hermit Crab Flashes That Have Got Great Story. Watch it here.
This month’s workshops is Weaving Sensuous Spells on Sunday 12th January 2025 at 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM GMT. Get a ticket here. WestWord members, I’ll be sending out your link to join tomorrow.
Hope to read your work and write with you soon!
With love,
