New Writers 1000-Word Short Story Competition 2024

• Deadline: Midnight (UK time) on Tuesday 30th April 2024
• Entry Fee: £10 for one entry, £19 for two entries, £27 for three entries
• Prizes: 1st Place: £1,000; 2nd Place: £300; 3rd Place: £200
• Word Limit: 1,000 words (excluding title)
• Charity:  £1 from each entry will be donated to First Story (England’s leading creative writing charity for young people)
• Head Judge: Cassandra Parkin (Award-Winning Author & Poet)
• Category: Short Story Competitions
• Competition Website: newwriters.org.uk/short-story-competition-1000

The New Writers 1000-Word Short Story Competition 2024 is seeking imaginative, thought-provoking stories of up to 1,000 words. With a prize fund of £1,500 and the winners getting published on the website and in a future New Writers Anthology, this is a great competition for new and experienced writers alike.

Also, £1.00 from each entry will be donated to creative writing charity, First Story (who do some brilliant work to help empower young people and give them a creative voice). So even if you don’t win, you’ll still be contributing to a good cause.

We are also very happy to have the brilliant novelist and poet Cassandra Parkin as our head judge for the competition. You can read our Q&A with Cassandra to find out about the kind of entries she might particularly welcome.

So if you’d like the chance to win £1,000 for (up to) 1,000 words, get involved.