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The Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction is an annual prize awarded by the University of Georgia Press in to a North American writer in a blind-judging contest for a collection of English language short stories. [1] The collection is subsequently published by the University of Georgia Press.
The Age Short Story Award; Albury City Short Story Award; Andrić Prize; Aurealis Award for Best Fantasy Short Story; Aurealis Award for Best Horror Short Story; Aurealis Award for Best Science Fiction Short Story; Aurealis Award for Best Young Adult Short Story; Aurora Award for Best Short Fiction; List of AWP Award winners
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 award is named after the American short-story writer O. Henry. The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories is an annual collection of the year's twenty best stories published in U.S. and Canadian magazines. Along with The Best American Short Stories, the O. Henry Prize Stories is one of the two "best-known annual anthologies of short fiction." [1]
The "Writers of the Future" contest is run quarterly and is open to authors who have no, or few, professional publications. The contest rules state that entrants cannot have had published "a novel or short novel, or more than one novelette, or more than three short stories, in any medium. Professional publication is deemed to be payment and at ...
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 ...
Zoetrope: All-Story sponsors an annual writing contest for short fiction. The contest has been judged by writers Joyce Carol Oates, Colum McCann [3] Mary Gaitskill and Tommy Orange. [4] The winner and finalists' stories are forwarded to leading literary agencies. The winning story is often published in an online supplement to the magazine.
The short story award is available for works of fiction of fewer than 7,500 words; awards are also given out for pieces of longer lengths in the novelette, novella, and novel categories. The Hugo Awards have been described as "a fine showcase for speculative fiction" and "the best known literary award for science fiction writing". [1] [2]