All Our Stories Festival is dedicated to great storytelling.

To celebrate the success of our recent All Our Stories Festival launch we’ve decided to run our own short story writing contest!

Short Story competition 2023

Prize £150 Entry £5 (unwaged FREE)

Write up to 150 words or make a video clip of up to 60 seconds

Deadline: Coming soon!

We’re looking for the best short stories you can throw at us. We want to be amazed, excited and inspired! Make very word count!

The theme for this contest is: ‘That was unexpected….’

Your story entry can be any genre or style, but we’re looking for prose not poetry.

Your entry needs to be a complete self contained short story.

It must be no more than 150 words or 60 seconds in length. Any longer and sadly we won’t be able to consider.

Check out the T&Cs on our Competition Rules page and how to buy your tickets.