Our twelfth annual international short story award is now CLOSED FOR ENTRIES. Thank you to all who entered. We appreciate your support

Our judge this year is Gordon Wise from the literary agency, Curtis Brown. (An interview with him is coming early in the New Year)

Prizes are £1200 first prize
£300 second prize
£100 third prize
£100 Acorn Award for an unpublished writer of fiction
£50 for the Local Prize, in book vouchers from Mt B’s Emporium of Books, in Bath

Results out in late July/early August.

The 2025 anthology (covered pictured here) is available from Amazon and from Ad Hoc Fiction and contains the shortlisted and winning stories from our 2025 competition. We’re looking forward to seeing it in print!