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The Age Short Story Award is a competition that is run in conjunction with International PEN, the international writers' association. It was established in 1979. From 1979 to 1984 it was run in conjunction with Tabloid Story [1] [2] and was known as The Age-Tabloid Story Awards. [3] The inaugural award was won by Harris Smart.
The competition was created to encourage new writers and is not open to professional authors. "Professional author" is defined as one who is eligible for active membership of the Science Fiction Writers of America – that is, a writer with three short story sales to qualifying markets or one novel sale to a qualifying market. Entries must be ...
A number of entrants in the Lune Spark Young Writers' Short Story Contest later won and received notoriety for their work. Notable published winners include UN Child Ambassador Nico Roman, who writes climate change fiction, and child author Addison Hill (under the pseudonym "Cress Wallwalker").
The prize is named in honor of the American short story writer and novelist Flannery O'Connor. [2] The prize was established in 1983 and has since published more than seventy collections. [3] Originally, the prize was awarded annually to two winners for a collection of short stories or novellas. Starting in 2016, there has only been one winner ...
The Commonwealth Short Story Competition was an annual literary award. It was established in 1996 and administered by the Commonwealth Foundation in partnership with the Commonwealth Broadcasting Association. Each year winning stories from different regions of the Commonwealth were recorded and broadcast on radio stations across the Commonwealth.
The BBC National Short Story Award (known as the National Short Story Award in 2006 and 2007) is an annual short story contest in the United Kingdom which is open to UK residents and nationals. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It has been described as "one of the most prestigious [awards] for a single short story" [ 3 ] and the richest prize in the world for a ...
The John Steinbeck Award for Fiction is an annual short-story competition by Reed Magazine of San José State University. The award was founded in 2002 by Chris Fink, who was at the time the faculty advisor for Reed. [1] The submissions window is open June 1 through November 1, and the judge varies from year to year.
The BBC National Short Story Award (known as the National Short Story Award in 2006 and 2007) has been described as "one of the most prestigious [awards] for a single short story" [1] and the richest prize in the world for a single short story. It is an annual short story contest in the United Kingdom which is open to UK residents and nationals ...