The HG Wells Short Story Competition
The annual HG Wells Fiction Short Story Competition offers a £500 Senior and £1,000 Junior prize and free publication of all shortlisted entries in a quality, professionally published paperback anthology.
Theme 2024
Theme: The Fool
Winners to be announced Sunday 19th November.
For further information, please read the rules and FAQs below.
If you cannot find the answer to your query there, you can email hgwellscompetition@gmail.com
Competitions: — Overview
The Margaret and Reg Turnill Competition & Senior Writing Competition
The Margaret and Reg Turnill Competition for young writers of 21 years and under, for which the prize winner receives £1,000, and a competition for the over 21s which offers the Grand Prize of £500.
The Margaret and Reg Turnill Competition for young writers of 21 years and under, for which the prize winner receives £1,000, and a competition for the over 21s which offers the Grand Prize of £500.
HG Wells Short Story Competition Winners & Awards
At the 2023 HG Wells Short Story Competition Award Ceremony on Zoom on Sunday 19th November, the winners were announced as:
Gloria Mesa for Rain Dance
Keltie Zubko for The Last Teardown of Eleanor
Short listed
Radiyah Nouman
Reading away the Water Drains
Yuen Tong Law
Reading from cast Out of Heaven
Kantaphat Pinaree
Reading from Elegy for A Machine
Catherine Saunders
Reading from Figurehead
Pritha Halder
reading from Ladies’ Compartment [reading live]
Thalia Peterson
Reading from Pareidolia
The 2023 Anthology of “Motion” is available now on Amazon at:
Buy “Motion” on Amazon (UK)
Buy “Motion” on Amazon (US)
Switch contains thirteen of the best short stories on the theme of Switch selected by the judges from a large entry for the 2022 H.G. Wells Short Story
Competition.
“I seek, in fiction, to advance ideas and naturally I repeat the ideas in which I believe.”
HG Wells
Events & Workshops
Every year, we run a series of workshops (often free to attend) in the lead-up to our writing competition’s closing date.
We hope that these workshops will inspire, educate and inform everyone who attends. You don’t have to be entering a story in to our competition – anyone can come to the workshops – but of course we hope you will send in an entry too!
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