Category: short story competition
2022 HG Wells Short Story Competition: Switch
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…
2021 HG Wells Short Story Competition Award Winners and Ceremony
At the 2021 HG Wells Short Story Competition Award Ceremony on Zoom on Sunday 21st November, the winners were announced as: 2021 Margaret and Reg Turnill Prize Winner: Sarah-Kate Simons for Swamp Thing 2021 Senior Prize Winner: Peter Collins for The Domino Effect We had our biggest entry ever this year for both competitions. Congratulations…
HG Wells Short Story Competition Shortlists 2021
We are delighted to announce our two shortlists for the prestigious H G Wells Short Story Competition 2021 on the theme “Mask”. We have again received a really high number of entries this year, with many excellent quality stories from talented writers across the world! The judges have selected the following stories for the 2021…
HG Wells Short Story Competition: Adult Creative Writing Workshop: Chekhov’s gun
On Wednesday 19th and 26th May, the H G Wells Short Story Competition has organised two free online writing workshops for aspiring writers aged 22+ led by Sarah Anthony. Chekhov’s gun is a concept that describes how every element in a story should contribute to the whole. It comes from Russian writer Anton Chekhov’s famous writing…
HG Wells Short Story Competition: Junior Creative Writing Workshop: Chekhov’s gun
On Wednesday 22nd and 29th May, the H G Wells Short Story Competition has organised two free online writing workshops for aspiring writers aged under 22 led by Sarah Anthony. Chekhov’s gun is a concept that describes how every element in a story should contribute to the whole. It comes from Russian writer Anton Chekhov’s famous…
HG Wells Short Story Competition 2021: Mask
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…
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…
