Bristol Short Story Prize with Prizes of up to £1,000

Bristol Short Story Prize is now available for writers and Writing enthusiasts all over the world. The competition is open to all published and unpublished writers.

• 20 stories will be shortlisted and published in Bristol Short Story Prize Anthology Volume 14 by Tangent Books. The winner and 2 runners up will be selected from the shortlist and announced at an awards ceremony in October 2022.
• 1st prize is £1,000, 2nd prize is £500, 3rd prize is £250. 17 further prizes of £100 will be presented to the remaining shortlisted writers. 
• All shortlisted writers will receive 2 free copies of the anthology. Prizes will be sent to any writer on the shortlist who is unable to attend the awards ceremony.
• The Sansom Award, in recognition of the contribution to Bristol publishing of John and Angela Sansom at Redcliffe Press, will be presented to the highest placed story by a Bristol writer. The Sansom Award winner will receive £100 and their story will be published in Bristol 24/7 magazine.

• Entries must be previously unpublished with a maximum word count of 4,000 words, there is no minimum word count. 
• All entries must be in English.
• Entrants must be over 16 years old on the closing date, May 4th 2022.
• 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, Horror, Romance, Children’s etc..) .
• Entrants may enter as many stories as they like. 
• There is an entry fee of £9 for each story submitted to the 2022 Bristol Short Story Prize. Payment for online entries to the 2022 Bristol Short Story Prize should be made from here.
• Entries will not be returned. Please keep a copy. No corrections or alterations can be made after receipt of an entry.
• Entries must be entirely the work of the entrant and must never have been previously published, in print or online (including self-published, ebook, magazines, journals, websites, blogs, social network sites), or broadcast or won a prize in another writing competition on or before October 9th 2021.
• Any entrant wishing to withdraw a story from the 2021 Bristol Short Story Prize before the closing date and time of midnight (BST) May 4th 2022 will receive a full refund. No withdrawn stories will be refunded after the closing date and time of midnight (BST) May 4th 2022.

About Bristol:-

The Bristol Short Story Prize is an international writing competition based in Bristol, UK, which aims to publish great short stories and promote the stories and writers as much as possible. Discovering previously unpublished writers is central to Bristol Prize’s aims and it’s absolutely committed to celebrating the short story genre and making it accessible and available to as wide an audience as it can.

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