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The Katherine Mansfield Memorial Award was a competition for short stories in New Zealand that ran every two years from 1959 to 2003, and every year from 2004 to 2014. The competition had multiple categories, including an essay section until 1963, a supreme award for short stories, and awards for novice and young writers.
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.
[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 single short story. [4] The award aims to increase interest in the short story genre, particularly British short stories. [2] As of 2017, the winner receives £15,000 and four shortlisted writers receive ...
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 Nebula Award for Best Short Story is a literary award assigned each year by Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association (SFWA) for science fiction or fantasy short stories. A work of fiction is defined by the organization as a short story if it is less than 7,500 words; awards are also given out for longer works in the categories of ...
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.
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"). [5] [6] [7]