Category: 2020
The 2020 HG Wells Short Story Competition Anthology: Vision
Vision Edited by Liz Joyce & Tony Scofield 2020 232 pages. ISBN 978-0-9955730-7-9. £7.99 Vision contains twenty of the best short stories on the theme of Vision selected by the judges from a large entry for the 2020 H.G. Wells Short Story Competition. Stories are divided into two groups: authors 21 years of age and…
2020 HG Wells Short Story Competition Winners
At the annual Awards Ceremony on the afternoon of Sunday 22nd November, held this year for the first time live on Zoom, the organisers of the HG Wells Short Story Competition were delighted to announce the winners of the 2020 competition. The Winner of the Junior £1,000 Turnill Prize is Tabitha Rubens for “The Invisible…
The HG Wells Short Story Competition Awards Ceremony 2020
This Sunday 22nd November, at noon GMT (12pm UTC +0), is the Award Ceremony of the 2020 HG Wells Short Story Competition. We are going to livestream the event to our Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/HGWellsShortStoryCompetition In addition to the presentation by, and live Q&A with, Sarah Anthony there will be also be readings from our…
H G Wells Short Story Competition Shortlists 2020
We are delighted to announce our two shortlists for the prestigious H G Wells Short Story Competition 2020 on the theme “Vision”. We have received a high level of entries this year of excellent quality from talented writers across the world! The judges have selected the following stories for the 2020 shortlists (listed below in…
H G Wells Short Story Competition: Creative Writing Workshops. Iceberg! [Repeat]
On Saturday 13th and 20th June, the H G Wells Short Story Competition have organised two free online writing workshops for aspiring writers of all ages led by Sarah Anthony. These sessions are a repeat of the Sold Out May Workshops. These two hour-long sessions are designed to explore the idea of the ‘unspoken’ in the…
**SOLD OUT** H G Wells Short Story Competition: Creative Writing Workshops. Iceberg!
**SOLD OUT** On Saturday 23rd and 30th May, the H G Wells Short Story Competition have organised two free online writing workshops for aspiring writers of all ages led by Sarah Anthony. These two hour-long sessions are designed to explore the idea of the ‘unspoken’ in the short story through Ernest Hemingway’s ‘Iceberg Theory’. Participants are…
HG Wells Short Story Competition 2020: Vision
Founded by the world-renowned BBC Aeronautics Correspondent Reg Turnill and his wife, Margaret, to celebrate the life and works of HG Wells and encourage creative writing, especially among the young. The annual HG Wells Short Story Competition offers a £500 Senior and £1,000 Junior prize (* see footnote) and free publication of all shortlisted entries…
Introducing Sarah Anthony: New HG Wells Short Story Competition Judge for 2020
We are very pleased to announce that Sarah Anthony is joining the judging committee of the HG Wells Short Story Competition for 2020. Sarah Anthony graduated from Bristol University with a degree in English and French literature and did her MA with the Open University, specialising in postcolonial literature She has worked for the School…
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