Photo: Barbara Evripidou

Welcome to the Bristol Short Story Prize – an annual international writing competition open to all published and unpublished, UK and non-UK based writers. We publish an annual anthology of the winning stories as well as presenting cash prizes.

The 2015 Bristol Short Story Prize is now open. Click here to find out about our fantastic judging panel, and click  here for full details about the competition.

The 2014 Bristol Short Story Prize was won by Mahsuda Snaith (above) for her wonderful story The Art of Flood Survival.

Mahsuda’s winning story plus the other 19 shortlisted stories are now available in the Bristol Short Story Prize Anthology Volume 7 (“a stunning collection of contemporary short stories“, Scott Pack) which you can buy from this website here. It is also available online from Tangent Books (our new publisher), Waterstones, Book Depository, and  Amazon and some bookshops. If your favourite bookshop doesn’t have it in stock, they will be able to order it for you.

It is also available as a Kindle ebook from amazon.co.uk, amazon.com, amazon.com.au, amazon.ca, amazon.in and all amazon sites.

Emily Bullock has secured an agent and publishing deal after being discovered in our volume 4 anthology. Read more here.

You can follow us on Twitter for very regular updates on the competition and links to the exciting and dynamic world of short stories, writing, reading and publishing.