The 2016 Bath Short Story Award is now open for entries.
The competition, which launched in 2013, has become a major international short story prize. Its winner receives £1,000 and there are second and third prizes of £200 and £100. The Acorn Award for unpublished fiction offers a prize of £50, and there is also a local prize of £50. All winning and shortlisted stories will be published in an anthology. This year’s judge is BBC Radio 4 producer Mair Bosworth.
The competition is for unpublished short stories of up to a maximum of 2,200 words. Stories may be in any style, and any genre. All stories must be original, unpublished fiction written for adult or young adult readers.