The London Magazine Short Story Competition is open for entries.
The London Magazine, originally founded in 1732, is the UK’s oldest literary periodical, with an illustrious history that includes publishing the first two instalments of Thomas De Quincey’s Confessions of an English Opium Eater in 1821, and serialising E Nesbit’s most-loved title The Railway Children the year before its commercial release in 1906. Writers who have been published in The London Magazine include TS Eliot, Arthur Conan Doyle, William Burroughs and Sylvia Plath.