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Deadlines

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This page contains information about deadlines for Short Story Competitions, Bursary Applications, and submissions to online and print magazines, journals, and conferences.

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At THRESHOLDS, we welcome general submissions for
WE RECOMMEND, AUTHOR PROFILES and WRITING EXERCISES, as well as DISCUSSION posts on any short fiction subject.

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Ongoing Calls

 See our listings for Literary Magazines and Other Markets

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Calls for Submissions and
Upcoming Submission Deadlines

Winchester Conference Writing Competitions — 22 May

Ideas Tap Short Story Competition — 28 May

The Peter Hinchcliffe Fiction Award (for Canadians and Canadian residents) — 28 May

The Bridport Prize — 31 May

The Fiction Desk Ghost Story Competition — 31 May

Fugue Writing Contest — 31 May

The Istanbul Review call for submissions — 31 May  

Jerry Jazz Musician Fiction Contest — 31 May 

Lakeview International Journal of Literature & Arts — 31 May

On The Premises Short Story Contest — 31 May

$10,000 Walton Sustainability Solutions Best Creative Nonfiction Essay Award — 31 May

Vocabula Well-Written Writing Contest — 31 May

Pressgang Prize — 1 June

The TIFERET Writing Contest — 1 June

Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize - 5 June and 7 August

Writers’ Trust Hilary Weston Non-Fiction Prize - 5 June and 7 August

Creative Future Literary Awards (for marginalised & disabled writers, theme: ‘The Spark’) — 16 June   NEW

New Awe Writing Initiative - 21 June

Scottish BookTrust Young Writers Award — 21 June

Autumn House Prize 2013: Poetry, Fiction and Nonfiction — 30 June

Lightship Flash Fiction Prize 2013 — 30 June

Lightship Short Story Prize 2013 — 30 June

Lightship Short Memoir Prize — 30 June

Proud To Be, Volume 2 (for Military Personnel, Veterans and their families) — 1 July

Saturday Evening Post Fiction Contest — 1 July

Cyclamens and Swords — (Theme: birds) 15 July

HGWells Festival Anthology — 20 July

Undiscovered Voices — 15 August

The Blue Falcon: A Journal of Military Fiction — 20 August

Aesthetica Creative Writing Competition — 31 August

RHINO Flash Fiction and Poetry Competition — 31 August 

Snake Nation Press: Serena McDonald Kennedy Award — 31 August

Prolitzer Prize For Prose Writing 2013 - 30 September

Lorian Hemingway Short Story Competition — 1 October

The Benjamin Franklin House Literary Prize — 31 October

East Midlands Book Aware 2014 — 14 December

*2014*

13^th International Conference on the Short Story in English: Short Story Contest — 14 January

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This list of deadlines for short story competitions, funding opportunities and submission calls is regularly updated. If you have a competition you’d like to add to the page, then please email us at thresholds@chi.ac.uk

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