Deadline: January 31, 2025
Entry fee: £12
About the competition
Don’t miss out on your chance to win £1,000 and publication in the Bristol Short Story Prize anthology! The Bristol Short Story Prize is organized by the University of Bristol, England. The competition is open to all published and unpublished writers. Entrants must be over 16 years old.
The maximum length of submissions is 4,000 words, there is no minimum length.
Stories can be on any theme or subject and are welcome in any style including graphic, verse or genre-based (Crime, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Historical, Romance, Children’s etc.). All entries must be in English.
Entries must be entirely the work of the entrant and must never have been previously published, in print or online, or broadcast or won a prize in another writing competition.
15 stories will be published in Bristol Short Story Prize Anthology Volume 17.
Competition guideline
- The 2025 Bristol Short Story Prize is open to all published and unpublished writers.
- Entrants must be over 16 years old on the closing date, 31 January 2025.
- There is no geographical restriction on entry–the 2025 Bristol Short Story Prize is open to everyone, whether they are based in the UK or outside the UK.
- Employees and students of the University of Bristol are ineligible to submit.
- Read the whole guideline and submit your entry here.
