Welcome to the Bristol Short Story Prize – an annual international writing competition open to all published and unpublished, UK and non-UK based writers.

The 2019 Bristol Short Story Prize shortlist has been announced. Congratulations to the 20 writers on the list who are in the running for this year’s top prize. Their shortlisted stories will be published by Tangent Books in our 12th anthology. The anthology will be launched and the winner announced at an awards ceremony on October 12th.

The 2018 Bristol Short Story Prize was won by Dizz Tate (left) for her story, Cowboy Boot. 2nd prize went to Chloe Wilson (right) and a joint 3rd prize was awarded to Helen Rye and Zeus Sumra, (above with guest speaker, Sharmaine Lovegrove, and judging panel chair, Kate Johnson). We have interviewed Dizz about her win, here.

There is more good news for Chloe Wilson (right); she has been signed by literary agent Kate Johnson of the New York based MacKenzie Wolf Literary Agency. Kate chaired this year’s Bristol Short Story Prize judging panel and is part of the judging panel for our 2019 competition. Read more about this 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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