The Dinesh Allirajah Prize for Short Fiction is a new creative writing competition from Comma Press and UCLan in memory of Dinesh, a creative writing lecturer, director of Comma Press and long-term supporter of new writing, who died in 2014.
The winning writer will receive £500 and all ten shortlisted writers will be featured in an ebook anthology from Comma Press.
In honour of Dinesh’s Café Shorts series from his blog, and as he believed cafés to be ‘fertile ground for the short story’, the theme for the inaugural competition is Café Stories. The competition is for original, unpublished stories between 2,000 and 6,000 words. Any writer may enter. Entry is free. Each writer may submit only one story.