The Creative Writing Ink Short Story Competition 2024

Open to writers across the globe.

Stories do not need to follow any particular theme or genre, but must be written in English.

Maximum word count: 3000 words.

Prizes:
-1st prize: £1000, plus a free creative writing course of the winner’s choice and publication on our site.
-2 runners-up: £200 each.

Entry fee: £9.

Final judge: Helen Moorhouse

Helen Moorhouse is the author of five novels ‘The Dead Summer, ‘The Dark Water’, ‘Sing Me To Sleep’, ‘Ever This Day’ and ‘The Gallery of Stolen Souls’ published by Poolbeg Press. A lover of stories, particularly the paranormal, her writing was featured in two anthologies – ‘All I Want For Christmas’ (2012) and ‘If I Was A Child Again’ (2013), and her short story ‘The Night Nurse’ was commissioned as the 2018 RTE Radio 1 Book Show Christmas ghost story.

A DIT journalism graduate, she has extensive copywriting experience across many areas – commercial radio advertising and branding, corporate video, speechwriting and speech consultancy, long and short form articles and more. Helen was an op-ed contributor to the Irish Independent 2012-2014, and has published articles and stories across many Irish newspapers and magazines.

Deadline: 15th November, 2024 at 4pm (GMT).

Find out all the details here.