Writing Competition

Welcome to the Bristol Short Story Prize – an annual international writing competition open to all published and unpublished, UK and non-UK based writers.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 2019 Bristol Short Story Prize is open for entries. The closing date is midnight on May 1st 2019. For full details of our 2019 writing competition, visit www.bristolprize.co.uk/rules

The 2018 Bristol Short Story Prize has been won by Dizz Tate for her story, Cowboy Boot. 2nd prize went to Chloe Wilson and a joint 3rd prize was awarded to Helen Rye and Zeus Sumra. We have interviewed Dizz about her win, here.

Dizz’s winning story and the other 19 on the shortlist for our 2018 writing competition are now available in our brilliant new anthology which can be ordered from our publisher, Tangent Books. It is also available to order from bookshops and the usual online outlets shortly.

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