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So this fabulous competition for short stories under 1000 words, shares one of our judges - Liv Bignold from C&W Literary Agency! Closes on 26th April! What are you waiting for !! 🖌️📚
Scratch A4 Summer ‘25 opens today! Send us a fantastic <1000 word story before 26th April!
More info on judges and submitting here:
www.scratch-books.co.uk/scratcha4com...
More info on judges and submitting here:
www.scratch-books.co.uk/scratcha4com...
April 8, 2025 at 4:27 PM
So this fabulous competition for short stories under 1000 words, shares one of our judges - Liv Bignold from C&W Literary Agency! Closes on 26th April! What are you waiting for !! 🖌️📚
A big thank you to everyone from around the world who entered our 2025 Award which closed at the end of March. As usual, it was a hectic final weekend and our team is now busy reading.
Results will be out in July.
Best wishes to all!
Results will be out in July.
Best wishes to all!
April 8, 2025 at 4:10 PM
A big thank you to everyone from around the world who entered our 2025 Award which closed at the end of March. As usual, it was a hectic final weekend and our team is now busy reading.
Results will be out in July.
Best wishes to all!
Results will be out in July.
Best wishes to all!
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Only 7 DAYS till the 2025 award closes.1st prize is £1200, out of a £1750 prize fund. This year’s judges are literary agents Lucy Luck and Liv Bignold from C&W Agency (Lucy also judged our award in 2014). Submit up to 2200 words on any theme/subject.
www.bathshortstoryaward.org/2025/03/24/d...
www.bathshortstoryaward.org/2025/03/24/d...
Debut Novel by Patrick Holloway, our 2023 BSSA winner, now published!
Patrick Holloway won first prize with his wonderful short story,’The Language of Remembering’ in our 2023 Award, judged by Farhana Shaikh. We’re very excited to announce that his …
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March 24, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Only 7 DAYS till the 2025 award closes.1st prize is £1200, out of a £1750 prize fund. This year’s judges are literary agents Lucy Luck and Liv Bignold from C&W Agency (Lucy also judged our award in 2014). Submit up to 2200 words on any theme/subject.
www.bathshortstoryaward.org/2025/03/24/d...
www.bathshortstoryaward.org/2025/03/24/d...
Only 7 DAYS till the 2025 award closes.1st prize is £1200, out of a £1750 prize fund. This year’s judges are literary agents Lucy Luck and Liv Bignold from C&W Agency (Lucy also judged our award in 2014). Submit up to 2200 words on any theme/subject.
www.bathshortstoryaward.org/2025/03/24/d...
www.bathshortstoryaward.org/2025/03/24/d...
Debut Novel by Patrick Holloway, our 2023 BSSA winner, now published!
Patrick Holloway won first prize with his wonderful short story,’The Language of Remembering’ in our 2023 Award, judged by Farhana Shaikh. We’re very excited to announce that his …
www.bathshortstoryaward.org
March 24, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Only 7 DAYS till the 2025 award closes.1st prize is £1200, out of a £1750 prize fund. This year’s judges are literary agents Lucy Luck and Liv Bignold from C&W Agency (Lucy also judged our award in 2014). Submit up to 2200 words on any theme/subject.
www.bathshortstoryaward.org/2025/03/24/d...
www.bathshortstoryaward.org/2025/03/24/d...
Two weeks to tweak (or even write something new? Deadline for our 2025 Award is 31st March. £1750 in prizes. Anthology publication for shortlisted writers
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From bathshortstoryaward.org
THE BATH SHORT STORY AWARD
International Short Story Competition
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March 17, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Two weeks to tweak (or even write something new? Deadline for our 2025 Award is 31st March. £1750 in prizes. Anthology publication for shortlisted writers
From bathshortstoryaward.org
From bathshortstoryaward.org
Interview with Connor Donahue, the winner of our 2024 Award bathshortstoryaward.org/2025/02/04/i... via
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Interview with Connor Donahue, the winner of our 2024 Award
Congratulations again Connor on winning our 2024 Bath Short Story Competition and thank you for agreeing to answer a few questions for our blog. Our judge, Sophie Haydock, commented that this was a…
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February 4, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Interview with Connor Donahue, the winner of our 2024 Award bathshortstoryaward.org/2025/02/04/i... via
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Karen Jones joins BSSA team www.bathshortstoryaward.org/2025/01/28/k... via @bathstoryaward
Karen Jones joins BSSA team
Karen Jones is a flash and short fiction writer from Glasgow, Scotland. Her flashes have been nominated for Best of the Net and The Pushcart Prize, and her story “Small Mercies” is included in Best…
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January 28, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Karen Jones joins BSSA team www.bathshortstoryaward.org/2025/01/28/k... via @bathstoryaward
Interview with BSSA 2025 judges, Lucy Luck and Liv Bignold bathshortstoryaward.org/2024/12/07/i... via
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Interview with BSSA 2025 judges, Lucy Luck and Liv Bignold
Our BSSA 2025 judges are Lucy Luck and Liv Bignold from Conville & Walsh Literary Agency, Lucy Luck started in publishing as an assistant at Rogers, Coleridge & White before setting up he…
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December 8, 2024 at 12:03 PM
Interview with BSSA 2025 judges, Lucy Luck and Liv Bignold bathshortstoryaward.org/2024/12/07/i... via
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Congrats 👏👏
It’s a rare occurrence but today is a double-publication day for me ! I have a story up at the wonderful @jhhnow.bsky.social ‘s year-end issue. Thank you for checking it out here:
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Diwali Fireworks - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine
Photo by Harsh Gupta on Unsplash by Sudha Balagopal Three days after she returns from her holiday-wedding-honeymoon, Ma invites us for Diwali, like it’s just another year of celebration, when Pa’s bee...
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December 5, 2024 at 6:33 PM
Congrats 👏👏
Good advice here!
New blog post: I recently asked writers what tips they had for finishing stories. Here's what the replies were. If you responded, you're probably mentioned here somewhere! anneolearyblog.wordpress.com/2024/12/04/h...
How do you finish stories? your Answers
A while back, I posed a question to my fellow writers: how do you finish stories? What tips do you have to help get a story from a mess of ideas in a Folder of Doom to a finished piece that can be …
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December 5, 2024 at 10:54 AM
Good advice here!
Bath Short Story Award is migrating ! The 2025 competition is now open for entries - closes 31st March. Follow us and sign up to the website for more info www.bathshortstoryaward.org
THE BATH SHORT STORY AWARD
International Short Story Competition
www.bathshortstoryaward.org
December 2, 2024 at 10:13 AM
Bath Short Story Award is migrating ! The 2025 competition is now open for entries - closes 31st March. Follow us and sign up to the website for more info www.bathshortstoryaward.org