The Criminally-Short Short Histories Awards 2008

 

NOW CLOSED

Last year we introduced

THE CRIMINALLY-SHORT SHORT HISTORIES AWARDS

It proved very popular so we are running it in the same format again this year.

There are THREE categories.

The Best Very-Short Crime Story
The Best Very-Short Historical Story
The Best Very-Short Historical Crime Story

There will be a winner and two runners-up in each category,
all to be published in the Fish Anthology 2009

 

Criminally-Short Short Histories - Competition Summary

 

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

 

Title: The Criminally-Short Short Histories Awards 2008
Opens: 1 June 2008
Closing date: 31 August 2008
Results: 30 November 2007
Judges - -TBC

Enter Competition Here

A First Prize of €500 plus publication in the Fish 2009 Anthology and ten copies of the Anthology goes to the winner of each category,

A second and third place in each category 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 read their work at the launch of the Fish Anthology 2009.

There is no need to classify your story. Our judges will decide which category your story best fits.

 

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The Rules

•  No entry form is needed.

•  The Prize is open to writers of any nationality writing in English.

•  There is no restriction on period or style but the theme must be historical, crime based, or both

• All stories must fit on one page of a Fish Anthology. A guide line of 250-300 words is indicated. Any stories significantly longer than this will be disqualified.

•  Winning stories must be available for the Anthology and, must not have been previously published .

•  Copyright remains with the author.

•  Notification of receipt of entry will normally 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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Entry Fees

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

Payment is by credit card only.

  On-Line Entry
€
Per Entry €12.00
Critique (Optional) €25.00
   

 

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On-Line Entries

ALL ENTRIES MUST BE SUBMITTED ON-LINE THROUGH OUR WEB SITE. PLEASE DO NOT SEND ENTRIES AS E-MAIL ATTACHMENTS.

PLEASE ENSURE THE TITLE OF THE STORY DOES NOT APPEAR ON THE FIRST PAGE, THE TITLE IS AUTOMATICALLY APPENDED BY THE SYSTEM.

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

 

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Postal Entries

This is an on-line only competition. Postal entries will not be accepted. However if you have any difficulty with our on-line submission system or with our on-line payment system we will be glad to work with you to sort things out. Simply E- mail us at techsupport@fishpublishing.com

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Judges

TBC

 

THE WINNERS OF THE
CRIMINALLY-SHORT SHORT HISTORIES AWARDS 2007
ARE:


HISTORY WINNER:

KILMAINHAM DAWN - MICHELE McGRATH, ISLE OF MAN

 

JOINT CRIME WINNERS:
WOMAN WANT - BRUCE STIRLING, CONNICTICUT

MIDNIGHT MARK - RAY SPARVELL, WESTERN AUSTRALIA

 

HISTORICAL-CRIME WINNER

FALL RIVER, AUGUST 1892 - SARAH HILARY, GLOUCESTERSHIRE

 

RUNNERS UP:

TRAIN OF THOUGHT - ELIZABETH KUZARA, WYOMING

THE BENEFITS OF ARSENIC - NIAMH RUSSELL, Co. WICKLOW

THE EYAM STONES - SARAH HILARY, GLOUCESTERSHIRE

THE SANDMEN OF SYRACUSE - STUART DELVES, EDINBURGH

 

 

Winners of the Historical Short Fiction Prize 2006

The overall winner of the 2006 Historical One-Page Prize is:

Keith Souter with his very-short story "The Villain's Tale"

 

Jessie J. Ellis - Knoxville 1899
Michigan, USA

Kimball Ann Richards - The Morning We Started To Leave
Vancouver, Canada

Rosemarie Rose - Shapes
Cwmbran, South Wales

 

Zoe Sinclair - That Sweet May Morning
Kent, England

 

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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.

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