The annual Nottingham Writers’ Club Short Story Competition is aimed at encouraging less experienced writers, and every writer who submits receives a few lines of feedback on their story.
The theme of the 2016 contest is ‘fire’, which may be interpreted in any way the writer wants. There is a first prize of £200, second and third prizes of £100 and £50, and further prizes for runners up.
The competition, which this year will be judged by WM subscriber, novelist and short story writer Patsy Collins, is not aimed at professional writers, and is only open to writers who earned less than £300 from short story writing in 2015.