Tuesday, 17 October 2017
2018 Commonwealth Short Story Prize
Open for entry 1 September – 1 November 2017
Awarded for the best piece of unpublished short fiction (2,000–5,000 words) in English. Regional winners receive £2,500 and the overall winner receives £5,000. Translated entries are also eligible, as are stories written in the original Bengali, Chinese, Kiswahili, Malay, Portuguese, Samoan and Tamil.
The competition is free to enter.
Full entry and eligibility rules are available to download here in word format and PDF.
Only one entry per writer may be submitted.
For more information visit www.commonwealthwriters.org/our-projects/the-short-story
