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The Adina Talve-Goodman Fellowship is an annual opportunity that honors the memory of author and former One Story Managing Editor Adina Talve-Goodman.   It offers a year-long mentorship on the craft of fiction writing with One Story magazine. Their aim is to provide a significant career boost to an early-career writer of fiction who has...

The Hudson Review is calling for authentic and original short stories for their open contest.  Founded in 1948, The Hudson Review is a quarterly magazine of literature and the arts published in New York City. Frederick Morgan, one of its founding editors, edited the magazine for its first fifty years. Paula Deitz has been the editor...

Good Beer Hunting uses beer as a platform to explore everything else they are interested in. From economics to politics, internet memes to food, urban design to civil rights. None of these topics are off limits at GBH.   They also disagree strongly with those who tell them to “stick to beer.” Beer has always...

The Happy Noisemaker Prize for Storytelling is inviting African writers to participate in its first-ever edition.  The brainchild of Jola Ayeye, Happy Noisemaker is a social commentary, humour and lifestyle blog. It’s a joyful corner of the internet, housing articles, a book club, a burgeoning writers launchpad and ecosystem, and lots of recommendations. The goal...

Beagle North is currently accepting submissions for their Halloween Anthology set to release in October 2023 Beagle North Halloween Short Story Competition is for writers who are interested in telling their spookiest horror short stories! Anything goes: from your classic ghosts, vampires and werewolves to something a little stranger. They are looking for short stories...

The HG Wells Short Story Competition is open to all writers worldwide to submit Fiction of any kind. The HG Wells short story competition was founded by the world-renowned BBC Aeronautics Correspondent Reg Turnill and his wife, Margaret, to celebrate the life and works of HG Wells and encourage creative writing, especially among the young....