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.

HG Wells Short Story Competition

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

“I seek, in fiction, to advance ideas and naturally I repeat the ideas in which I believe.”

HG Wells

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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