2008 One-Page Short Story Prize (NOW CLOSED)

 

Summary - The Rules - Entry Fees - On-Line Entries - Postal Entries - Judge

 

This is your annual opportunity to turn your hands to what is one of the most difficult, and rewarding tasks that a writer might elect to face; to create, in a tiny fragment, a completely resolved and compelling story. Flash Fiction is a wonderfully entertaining thing to read and a frustratingly challenging thing to write, but we love it and so do the readers of our Anthology, and so this is another chance to get one of your stories, however small, into this year's Fish Anthology.

The winner of one of our very short story competitions, the Fish Historical Short Fiction Prize, has just had his latest novel published. Read about Keith Souter on our News Page

 

Competition Summary

Opens: 1 January 2008
Closing date: NOW CLOSED
Results: 30 April 2008
Judge: Vanessa Gebbie

Prizes:

A First Prize of €1,000 to the winner plus publication in the 2008 Fish Anthology.

Up to nine runners-up will also be selected to appear in the Anthology and will each receive an award of €100 plus five complementary copies of the Anthology.

All winning authors will be invited to the launch of the 2008 Fish Short Story Prize Anthology. This will take place during the West Cork Literary Festival at Bantry House in July 2008.

 

The Rules

  • No entry form is needed, this is an On-line competition.
  • You can enter as many times as you wish. One story per entry.
  • The Prize is open to writers of any nationality writing in English.
  • There is no restriction on theme or style.
  • Stories should be around 250 words, up to an ABSOLUTE maximum of 300.
  • The title is not included in the word count, within reason!, i.e. 10-word title max.
  • The winning stories must be available for the Anthology and, therefore, must not have been published previously.
  • Copyright remains with the author.
  • Notification of receipt of entry will be by email.
  • The judges' verdict is final.
  • No correspondence will be entered into once work has been submitted.
  • Stories cannot be altered or changed after they have been entered.

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On-Line Entries

This is an On-line competition, and entries will only be accepted if entered through our website. Please do not send stories as email attachments. Enter on line

PLEASE DO NOT PUT YOUR NAME ON THE STORY. YOUR STORY IS AUTOMATICALLY LINKED TO YOUR NAME.

SHORT STORIES CAN BE TRICKY THINGS, SO IF YOU HAVE ANY TROUBLE AT ALL GETTING YOUR ENTRY INTO THE SYSTEM, OR TO LOOK RIGHT WHEN YOU HAVE SUBMITTED IT, THEN SIMPLY SEND YOUR ORIGINAL VERSION TO US, AND WE WILL SEND IT BACK IN A FORM THAT WILL UP-LOAD PERFECTLY.
SIMPLY CLICK HERE

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Entry Fees

The cost of an On-line entry is fixed in Euro and the conversion into your local currency will be done automatically by your credit card company according to the current exchange rate.

 

  On-Line Entry
€
Per Entry 12.00
Entry + Critique (Optional) 37.00

 

2007 Short Story Anthology
(Visit the Fish On-line Book Shop)

 

10.00

(Inc. p. & p.)

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Postal Entries

This year's One-Page Short Story Prize is, in line with all of our competitions, On-Line entry only.

For those of you who might be concerned about entering on-line or encounter any problems entering the competition or paying for your entry, or getting your submission to look right, simply click on

 

Fish Support

We will work with you to make sure your story can be entered into the competition.

 

Judge: Vanessa Gebbie

Vanessa Gebbie won Second Prizes at both Fish and Bridport in 2007. Her First Prizes include Per Contra (USA), The Daily Telegraph, Willesden Herald, Guildford Book Festival, The Paddon Award and Cadenza Magazine. 

Her short stories have been widely published, anthologised, translated into several languages, broadcast on BBC radio and handed out on London Underground.

She has won awards for flash fiction, and regularly judges literary short fiction competitions.

 

 

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Short Stories to read online

Read online some of the winning entries from previous Fish Anthologies. These are examples of the calibre that win the Fish Short Story Prize. Short Stories to read online

Writing Short Stories

Our new Writing feature provides some suggestions on the art of story writing. The page is designed to provide writers with on-going, constructive information about how other authors achieved success with writing short fiction. For more information visit our Writing Short Stories page.

Online Book Shop

You can buy Fish Publishing's Anthologies of short stories on-line in our online book shop – The Fish Shop.

Online Entry

Our Fish-On-Line online entry system provides a convenient way to enter our contests on the web. Register as an online Fish author and you can enter current and forthcoming Writing Contests. Writers may also enter any of our competitions by post. See our Writing Contests page for full details

Writing Contests - Assistance

Fish Publishing offers an Editorial Consultancy and Critique Service. designed to provide writers thinking of entering writing competitions with constructive feedback on their work, whether it is a complete novel or just the beginnings. The Service is available to writers prior to entering the Fish writing competitions.