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SA Writers College Short Story Competition 2024
30 September 2024
The annual Writers College Short Story Competition is held to acknowledge excellence in creative writing in the short story form. The competition is open to any writer who is unpublished, or has been published fewer than four times.
Prizes:
- First place: NZ$ 1 000 and publication in an anthology of winning stories
- Second place: NZ$ 500 and publication in an anthology of winning stories
- Third place: NZ$ 250 and publication in an anthology of winning stories
(*Prizes will be converted to Rands.)
The top three winners receive editorial comments on their submitted works.
The competition is open to anyone, from any country aged 16 and over. Only one story per entrant is allowed and only entries written in English will be accepted. Entrants must submit a story of maximum word count: 2000 words. Any entries exceeding the word count by 50 words will not be considered. There is no entrance fee.
Stories in any genre are accepted. The 2024 theme is ‘It didn’t have to be this way’. Writers can interpret and represent the theme in any way they choose. Each story must include the phrase ‘It didn’t have to be this way’ somewhere in the story. Writers must produce their own title.
Submissions and enquiries can be sent to Nichola Meyer: nichola@nzwriterscollege.co.nz