Women's Fiction Competition 2024 - Short Story

You should follow the following criteria:

• This competition is open to women of any nationality from any country.
• Entries should be in English (or English dialect) and should not have been published or accepted for publication in print or online by a third party.
• Entries that have won other competitions are not eligible.
• All of part of self-published manuscripts with sales of fewer than 500 copies are eligible.
• Entries should not be a translation of another author’s work.
• You do not have to subscribe to Mslexia to be eligible, but you do have to self-identify as a woman.
• Employees of Mslexia are not eligible.
• Please submit your work typed, double-spaced, on A4 pages, single-sided, with pages numbered.
• Your entry will be judged anonymously, so do not put your name on the text pages of your entry.
• No alterations may be made to your entry once it has been submitted.
• Your entry will not be returned, so do keep a copy.

Please note:

• The entry fee is £12.00.
• Entrants will be notified of the outcome of their entry in November 2024.

About Mslexia:

Mslexia is a British magazine for women writers, founded and edited by Debbie Taylor. Mslexia contains articles on writing and writers and encourages independent publishers and bookshops and innovations in writing. It was first published on March 1999 and is produced four times a year. Mslexia has about 11,000 subscribers.

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