Imagine 2200 Climate Fiction Writing Contest is calling for short stories that envision the next 180 years of equitable climate progress. 

Imagine 2200 celebrates stories that envision the next 180 years of equitable climate progress, imagining intersectional worlds of abundance, adaptation, reform, and hope. Stories must be set between today and the year 2200, in a future that shows the path to a clean, green, just world. They are looking for stories that showcase creative climate solutions and community-centered adaptations. They especially want to read — and share — narratives that center solutions from the communities most impacted by the climate crisis and stories that envision what a truly equitable, decolonized society could look like.

In the Imagine 2200 Climate Fiction Writing Contest, stories should be set anywhere between the present day and the year 2200, and should show the path to a clean, green, and just future. Therefore, this is a theme writing contest and you must ensure you can match the theme of the contest in your submission.

Eligibility Guidelines for Imagine 2200 Climate Fiction Writing Contest

• Entry is free.
• The contest is open to writers anywhere in the world, except where participation is prohibited or restricted by applicable law.
• Authors must be 18 years or older at the time of submission.

Submission Guidelines for Imagine 2200 Climate Fiction Writing Contest

• Submissions must be fictional stories between 3,000 and 5,000 words.
• Your story needs to be creative and interesting.
• Ensure your submissions must be written in English. They are not able to translate stories from other languages at this time.

• It must not have been previously published, nor received a prize or distinction in another contest.
• They do not accept simultaneous submissions (stories can only be submitted to this contest and not to others, until we have informed you of the result).
• Only one submission will be accepted per entrant.
• More than one entrant can co-author submissions. Only one of the co-authors should submit the story. The submissions form will offer a way to list the other co-author(s). If a co-authored story is selected for publication, all authors will be credited, and prize money will be divided between them.
• Submissions will only be accepted through Submittable — click the “submit” button at the bottom of their website page when you’re ready! If you need accessibility accommodations, email the team at imaginefiction@grist.org.
• Stories will be judged by a board of literary experts, including acclaimed authors and editors Nalo Hopkinson, Sam J. Miller, and Paolo Bacigalupi.
• All 12 final stories will be published on Grist’s website and partner sites as part of our Imagine 2200 collection.
• Worldwide copyright and ownership of each story remains with the author.

Prizes

• The first-prize story will be awarded $3,000.
• Second prize $2,000.
• Third prize $1,000.
• Nine additional finalists will each receive a $300 honorarium.
• Worldwide copyright and ownership of each story remains with the author.
•  All winners and finalists will have their story published in an immersive collection on Grist’s website.

Deadline

Submissions close June 13, 2023, 11:59 p.m. U.S. Pacific Time.

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The House of Zolo’s Journal of Speculative Literature in it’s third edition is looking for radical, forward-thinking fiction and poetry that examines the future of our planet as it relates to Climate Change.

The House of Zolo’s Journal of Speculative Literature is looking for poetry submissions of up to three poems; and short story submissions from 1,000 to 6,000 words, that address the urgent issue of Climate Change. Utopias, dystopias, magic realism, horror, science fiction—all speculative genres are welcome.

Submission Guidelines for House of Zolo’s Journal of Speculative Literature Call to Submission.

• Deadline for submission is APRIL 15, 2021.
• They will pay authors $25 per poem, and $50-$75 per story, for non-exclusive, worldwide, serial rights for both electronic and print.
• Send your submissions through EMAIL as a WORD DOCUMENT to: houseofzolopublishing@gmail.com with “POETRY SUBMISSION” or “FICTION SUBMISSION”, as the Subject Line.
• Please include a brief synopsis of your story in your email, as well as a short bio.

What the House of Zolo’s Journal looks for in Fiction

• HOZ is looking for literature that explores possibilities for the future.
• They want challenging short stories that are character driven, that reimagine the world and our places in it.
• They are looking for: BIPOC authors, feminist authors, LGBTQ2S authors, radical authors, authors who experiment.
• Themes that thrill like transhumanism, artificial intelligence, genetic engineering, new systems, resistance, activism, queer perspectives, feminist perspectives, nature.
• HOZ is not interested in stories that concern the reinvention of empire, rehashing of old narratives, or excessive violence.
• They entertain all genre based stories so long as they concern the future and especially if related to the current theme.
• That said, they are looking for the best speculative fiction stories.

What HOZ looks for in Poetry

• HOZ is looking for works of speculative poetry that imagine the future of the world, the future of nature, technology, and/or the human being.
• Any form of poetry is welcomed.
• Like the call for fiction they are very interested in radical, BIPOC, feminist, LGBTQ2S, and/or experimental poetry.
• You may submit poems on any future related subject or theme but here are some of our favourite areas: transhumanism, artificial intelligence, genetic engineering, new systems, resistance, activism, queer perspectives, feminist perspectives, nature.
• The HOZ journal is published as a print and ebook, and journals may be bound together into semi-annual collections.
• They ask for non-exclusive, worldwide, serial rights to your work for both electronic and print.
• HOZ does not consider previously published work, and reprints that are currently available for free online.

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Writers,

You can now send in your short story Entries for the 2021 K and L prize on the theme, Madness.

The K and L prize, founded and sponsored by New Zealand based Nigerian writer, Myles Ojabo, awards $1000 (New Zealand) to the best piece of unpublished fiction.

The inaugural edition was awarded to South African writer, Sisca Julius, for her story, Honey Bee. The second edition was awarded to Nigerian writer, Kanyisola Olorunnisola, for his story, Abija, the Architect of Mayhem.

Theme

Madness

The term could mean insanity or aberrant behaviour, depending on how the writer interprets it.

Deadline for the K & L Prize 2021

March 21, 2021

Eligibility for K & L Prize 2021

• Only African writers are eligible to submit
• Writers must be between 18 and 25 years of age
• No entry fee
• Stories should be centered on the theme

Submission Guidelines for the K & L Prize 

• Entries must not have been previously published.
• Email subject should have the name of the short stories, age of the applicant, and ‘2021 K and L prize’.
• Submissions must be in English and should reflect the theme, ‘Madness’.
• Only one entry per writer is allowed.
• Stories must not be more than 2000 words.
• The submission should be in Microsoft Word.
• Entries should be sent to id.ojabo@gmail.com.

By Submitting to K & L Prize 2021, Entrants Agree to the Following Requirements;

• Only the winner is entitled to have the cash prize of 1000 New Zealand dollars. In the case where there are joint winners, the prize money will be shared.
• Writers that eventually make the longlist are required to submit a copy of their birth certificate.
• Stories of writers on the longlist would be publicized and published in the K and L Anthology: Full Moon.
• Every writer on the longlist will get a free e-copy of the anthology.   
• Writers that eventually make the shortlist would be offered an interview session.
• Writers that make the shortlist would be asked to submit their photos and other information necessary for publicising the prize.
• All finances raised from sales of the anthology would go towards funding and developing the K and L Prize. 
• The decisions of the judges’ entries are final.

Prize for the K & L Prize 2021

• $1000 (New Zealand)
• Publication for longlisted stories
• Free e-copy of Anthology for all longlisted writers

To learn addition of narrative arc to your story, you can click here or here to get ideas on writing a short story.

Judges for K & L Prize 2021

Sisca Julius

Sisca is a South African English and Afrikaans writer who has written short stories for BKO magazine, New Contrast, and Nuwe Afrikaanse Prosaboek. She has published poems in Stanzas and opinion pieces for Herri Magazine and Living While Feminist. In 2013, 2014, and 2015 she won the PUK Chancellor’s trust prize for Prose, and in 2015 the PUK Chancellor’s Trust prize for poetry. In 2019 she won the K and L Prize for African Literature and graduated from Sol Plaatje University as the top achieving student for the 2019 academic year. She is currently doing her postgraduate degree in Afrikaans literature. 

Su’ur Agema

Su’ur Su’eddie Vershima Agema is a husband and father, an editor, publisher, cultural enthusiast, and development worker. He was listed on Nigerian Writers Award’s 100 Most Influential Nigerian Writers under 40 (2017 and 2018) and EGC’s Top 50 Contemporary Poets Who Rocked Nigeria (2012-17). He was also recently Curator, Black History Month/Project and founding President, African Writers [Society] at the University of Sussex in England, the United Kingdom where he earned a second master’s in International Education and Development under the esteemed Chevening scholarship scheme. He is also the convener of the Benue Book and Arts Festival, a past chairman of the Association of Nigerian Authors (Benue State Chapter), and a former coordinator of the National Teen Authorship Scheme covering six states in Nigeria. Agema is the author of Home Equals Holes: Tale of an Exile (Winner, Association of Nigerian Authors’ Prize for Poetry, 2014); The Bottom of another Tale (Shortlist, Abubakar Gimba Prize for Short Stories, 2015); Once Upon a Village Tale (Shortlist, Association of Nigerian Authors’ Children’s Literature Prize); and Bring our casket home: Tales one shouldn’t tell (Nominee, Association of Nigerian Authors’ Prize for Poetry 2013). Among other awards, he also won the Mandela Day Short Story Prize (2016) and was shortlisted for the Saraba/PEN Nigeria Poetry Prize 2013, Association of Nigerian Authors Prize for Prose Fiction (2014), and the Soyinka Prize for African Literature (2018). He is the chief executive/lead editor at SEVHAGE Publishers, and team leader/lead researcher at SEVHAGE Literary and Development Initiative.

Myles Ojabo

Myles Ojabo is a New Zealand based Nigerian writer. He holds both masters and doctoral degrees in creative writing from the Auckland University of Technology. He found the K and L prize in 2018. Ojabo is the author of Black River (Longlist, Nommo Ilube Prize for Fiction. 2019; Shortlist, Association of Nigerian Authors [ANA] Prize for Prose, 2018).  

 Good Luck!

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The legendary tale is seeking submissions on new original short stories in the speculative fiction genres;

• Science Fiction
• Fantasy
• Horror
• Paranormal
• Supernatural

 In general, they are interested in strong character-driven stories. They do not want stories that have explicit sex or violence, rapists, or child abusers.

Submission Deadline

Not specified

Guidelines for Legendary Tales Magazine Submission

• Original and unpublished short fiction
• Submissions must be between 1,000-7,500 words.
• Stories must be in English.
•  Submit your work in Shunn Standard Manuscript Format.
•  You can send through submissions through Moksha
•  No simultaneous submissions.

 Payment for Legendary Tales Submission

• $75 per article
• Publication

They try to respond to all submissions within 30 days.

To learn more about how to write ground breaking speculative fiction, you can this masterpieces by Simbiat Haroun and Ope Adedeji.

Good Luck!

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CALL FOR SUBMISSION: THE PAN AFRICAN WRITER ASSOCIATION (PAWA), CENTRE FOR INTELLECTUAL RENEWAL (CIR), ACCRA, GHANA.

The Pan African Association (PAWA), and the Centre for Intellectual Renewal (CIR) in Accra, Ghana are jointly calling for submission for publication in an anthology of contemporary stories from Africa and the Diaspora.

THEME:
Voices that Sing Behind the Veil.

ELIGIBILITY FOR THE ANTHOLOGY OF SHORT STORIES FROM AFRICAN AMD THE DIASPORA
Writer must be an African, born in an African country or in Diaspora.

PRIZE:
Publication in an anthology.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:

•  Work should be between 2,500 – 5,000 words.
•  Can be written in English or French
•  Writer’s bio of 200 – 300 words should accompany the work.
• Must be submitted by E-mail to editor at IvorAgyemanDuah66@gmail.com

DEADLINE:
December 20, 2020

FOR FURTHER ENQUIRIES:
Contact,

Dr Wale Okedrian

PAWA Secretary General

waleokedrian@yahoo.co.uk

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How To Write A Story Like A Literary Great (Story Writing Tips + Examples)

Good luck!

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Today, the 14th of May, 2020, the Society of Authors announced the shortlists in five awards categories: Betty Trask, McKitterick, ALCS Tom-Gallon Trust Awards, the Paul Torday Memorial Prize, and the inaugural Queen’s Knickers Award. The awards fund, which is to be shared among the winners in each category, is £100,000.

The shortlist of 29 writers has been described as “wide-ranging”, as it includes Lynda Clark, winner of the Commonwealth Short Story Prize in 2018 and author of Beyond Kidding; Taffy Brodesser-Akner, New York Times Magazine Staff Writer and author of Fleishman is in Trouble; Sally Gardner, Costa and Carnegie Medal-winning author of Maggot Moon; Ani Kayode Somtochukwu, Nigerian poet, biology student and activist; Okechukwu Nzelu, the British-Nigerian author of the Desmond Elliot Prize-longlisted The Private Joys of Nnenna Maloney. 

Below is the shortlist in each category:

• The Queen’s Knickers Award (inaugural year):
  • Umbrella written and illustrated by Elena Arevalo Melville.
  • Mr Tiger, Betsy and the Sea Dragon written by Sally Gardner, illustrated by Nick Maland.
  • How to Light Your Dragon written by Didier Lévy, illustrated by Fred Benaglia.
  • One Fox written and illustrated by Kate Read.
  • Child of St Kilda written and illustrated by Beth Waters.
• The ALCS Tom-Gallon Trust Award:
  • Ghillie’s Mum by Lynda Clark.
  • High Water by Carol Farrelly.
  • The Bird That Fluttered Free by Ani Kayode Somtochukwu.
  • Whale Watching by Diana Powell.
  • Eva at the End of the World by Wendy Riley.
  • The Pier at Ardentinny by Catriona Ward.
• Betty Trask Prize and Awards:
  • The Familiars by Stacey Halls.
  • The Parisian by Isabella Hammad.
  • Hitch by Kathryn Hind.
  • The Private Joys of Nnenna Maloney by Okechukwu Nzelu.
• McKitterick Prize:
  • Golden Child by Claire Adam.
  • Diary of a Somebody by Brian Bilston.
  • Fleishman is in Trouble by Taffy Brodesser-Akner.
  • The Confessions of Frannie Langton by Sara Collins.
  • Leonard and Hungry Paul by Rónán Hession.
  • The Travelers by Regina Porter.
• Paul Torday Memorial Prize:
  • The Burning Land by George Alagiah.
  • Madeleine by Euan Cameron.
  • Reparation by Gaby Koppel.
  • Find Me Falling by Fiona Vigo Marshall.
  • As the Women Lay Dreaming by Donald S Murray.
  • The Stranger She Knew by Rosalind Stopps.

Congratulations to all the shortlisted writers. The winners of the Society of Authors Awards will be announced on the 18th of June, 2020. We are rooting for Ani Kayode Somtochukwu and Okechukwu Nzelu. 

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A press that’s known for their visual publishing and their dedication to producing beautiful books, Nobrow has called for entries for their short story competition. The competition is worth over $4500, and is for a short story or creative non-fiction piece of not more than 3000 words on the theme of “The Censor”.

According to their blog: “We are looking for inclusive, surprising, ingenious and diverse responses that capture our minds and hold us until every word is devoured.”

Submissions are open until the 9th of December, 2019.

Who is Eligible to Apply:

• Any writer from anywhere in the world.
• There is no entry fee.

How to Apply:

• Submit a short story or creative non-fiction piece that does not exceed 3000 words.
• The story must be on the theme of “The Censor”; it could be censorship that happened in the past, that’s happening now, or that will happen.
• Your entry should be double-spaced, 12pt, and should have page numbers.
• Send your entry to shortstory@nobrow.net.
• The title of your email should read: “Nobrow Short Story Competition”.
• Your entry should be attached as a Word document or PDF file.
• The title of the entry should be the title of the document.
• In the body of the email, state if the entry is fiction or non-fiction.
• Do not include your name or any identifying information anywhere on the entry.
• The deadline for submission is the 9th of December, 2019.

Prizes:

• An overall winner will receive £2000.
• The other eleven shortlisted writers will receive £150 each.
• All winners will have their stories published in Nobrow’s short story anthology, and each winner will receive two complimentary copies of the anthology.
• Winners will also be invited to attend events which will include a launch and readings.

Good luck.

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Submissions are now being received for the K & L Prize. The prize was founded and is sponsored by the New Zealand based writer, Myles Ojabo, and is worth $1000. The prize is given yearly for the best piece of unpublished short fiction by an African writer. This year, the theme for the prize is “Africanfuturism”, a term coined by the Nigerian-American writer, Nnedi Okorafor.

According to the organizers of the prize: “In Africanfuturism there are often description of aliens, and sometimes witches. The settings are likely in a recognizable future Africa, with African lineages—which “are not cultural hybrids but rooted in the history and traditions of the continent” with no element or traits drawn from Western culture (or even pop culture).”

The deadline for entering the prize is December 1, 2019.

Who is Eligible to Submit:

• Any who is a citizen of an African country.
• Anyone who resides in an African country.
• Anyone who is between the ages of 18 and 25.

How to Submit:

• Submit a story of not more than 2000 words.
• The story should reflect the theme, “Afrofuturism”.
• The story to be entered for the prize must not have previously been published.
• The story must be in Word document.
• Email subject should be the name of the short story, age of the entrant and “2020 K & L Prize”.
• Entries should be sent to ojabo@gmail.com
• The deadline for submissions is December 1, 2019.
• NOTE: All longlisted writers are required to submit a copy of their birth certificate, and all shortlisted writers are expected to submit their photos and other information required to publicize the price.
• The judges decisions are final and not subject to appeal.

Prize:

• The winner will receive 1000 New Zealand Dollars. In a case where there are joint winners, the prize money will be split.
• All the longlisted stories will be published in the anthology: “K & L Anthology: Black Skin, No Mask.”
• Every writer on the longlist will get a free copy of the anthology but will be responsible for shipping cost.
• Shortlisted writers will be interviewed.

Judges for the 2020 edition are:

Chigbo Arthur Anyaduba

Anyaduba is an assistant professor of English at the University of Winnipeg, Canada. His work focuses broadly on contemporary African literatures. His current research examines representations of mass atrocities and genocides in Africa. Anyaduba is a recipient of several prestigious awards, including a Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship for his doctoral dissertation at the University of Manitoba, and a J.B. and Maurice C. Shapiro Fellowship at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum for his research on “African” genocides. He is also a senior editor of Saraba Literary Magazine and his creative writings have appeared on numerous platforms.

Dione Joseph

She is the founder of Black Creatives Aotearoa and co-founder of JK Productions: He Kōrero Ngā Tahi (Telling Our Stories Together). Her commitment to creating, sharing and manifesting opportunities for diverse artists has seen her work as director and dramaturge in theatre for the last decade across New Zealand, Australia and the USA. She has also been active as a writer stage critic, international guest scholar and community advocate. She has a MA in Community and Cultural Development from the Victorian College of the Arts and an BA (Hons) in Theatre Studies from the University of Melbourne.

Good luck.

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Submissions are now open for the world’s richest prize for a single short story written in the English Language.

The award, which was launched by Lord Evans of EFG Private Bank and Cathy Calvin of The Sunday Times in 2010, is for a single short story of not more than 6000 words written by any novelist or short story writer who has been published in the UK or Ireland, and is worth £30,000 . The shortlisted authors will also receive £1000 each. This year, the Irish writer Danielle McLaughlin won the prize for her story “A Partial List of the Saved”. The deadline for submissions for the 2020 prize is 6pm on December 13, 2019.

Who is Eligible:

• Any writer who has had a work of prose fiction published in an established printed magazine in the UK or Ireland.

How to Apply:

• Submit a story of not more than 6000 words on any theme.
• The story may have been published or may be unpublished. However, stories published before January 1, 2019 not eligible.
• The story must be written in English.
• It must be double-spaced, in Arial font, 12pt, black.
• On the front page of your submission, include the title of your story and the word count ONLY. The author’s name should not be included anywhere on the document.
• The file format could be any of the following: doc, dock, or pdf.
• The deadline for submission is 6pm on December 13, 2019.
• The longlist will be announced in May 2020, the shortlist in June 2020, and the winner on the 2 of July 2020.
• Submit here

Prizes:

• The winner receives £30,000 and publication of the story.

• The shortlisted writers receive £1000 each.

To better your short story, check out this article: How to Write A Great Short-Story: Lessons from A Short Story Day With TJ Benson.

Good luck.

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Writers are invited to submit a very short story (up to 750 words) for the Stories of the Nature of Our Cities Flash fiction contest. A total of $6,500 will be awarded to the best, unpublished City in a Wild Garden-themed story. Yes, you guessed it: the theme for this edition is City in a Wild Garden. , The contest will run from 9th September, 2019 to 1st January, 2020.

Here’s a snippet from the press release:

You do not have to literally use this phrase in your story. You may interpret liberally any of the words in the phrase: city, wild, and garden. Plot elements must include cities, nature, and people. It has to be fiction (that is, a story, not an essay)—any genre, from science fiction to magical realism—and can be about anything: climate change; food security; utopias; wild nature; a love story; … anything. At TNOC, we are very interested in imagining cities in which nature and people co-exist, cities in which the relationships between the human-made and the natural are imagined differently.

Who is eligible to apply for the Stories Of The Nature Of Our Cities Flash Fiction Contest 2020?
• Writers from all nationalities are welcome to apply. There are no geographical restrictions.
• Writers must be 16 years and above.

Submission Guidelines for the Stories Of The Nature Of Our Cities Flash Fiction Contest 2020:
• Stories must not exceed the word count: 750 words or less (not including the title)
• Submissions must reach the organizers before the 1 January 2020;
• Stories must be set in a city. You are free to interpret the word ‘city’ as you please.
• Nature and people must be significant plot elements in your story.
• Stories must be written in the English language.
• Send only original, previously unpublished stories.
• No simultaneous submissions, please.
• Only entry per writer is allowed.
How To Apply:
• Entries must be submitted via the contest’s web-based form.

Prizes and Awards for the Stories Of The Nature Of Our Cities Flash Fiction Contest 2020
Six authors will be awarded cash awards.
One first place story will get $2,000;
Two second place winners will get $1,000 each;
3 third prize winners will get $500 each.
A good number of shortlisted stories will be included in a book to be published by Publication Studios.

Good luck.

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