The Galley Beggar Press Short Story Prize 2023/24
PRIZES
WINNING STORY £2500 | SHORTLIST £200 | LONGLIST £50 BOOK VOUCHERS + SUBSCRIPTION
JUDGES
ALEX CLARK, CHIGOZIE OBIOMA, TOMIWA OWOLADE, SUSAN TOMASELLI
CLOSING DATE
30 SEPTEMBER 2023
ENTRY
£10 PER STORY, AND 200 FREE LOW-EARNER SLOTS (DETAILS HERE)
Now in its ninth year, the prize was set up to help Galley Beggar Press support talented new writers, and to demonstrate the wonderful things that can be done with the short story form. It’s been a fantastic success. Our longlisted, shortlisted, and winning authors have since signed on with agents and secured book deals as a result of taking part in the prize. Our winners have been profiled in the Bookseller, the Irish Times, Guardian and elsewhere. For the past three years, the acclaimed Brixton Review of Books have published the winning story. We’ve had readings and discussions about the prize at book festivals. We’ve recorded podcasts. And each year, we have been amazed – and inspired – at the sheer talent and originality of the submissions, as well as the dazzling possibilities of the genre.
You can read more about the prize – with information on the prizes, judges, deadlines, and how to enter – here.
To learn more about previous finalists – with links to many of their stories – click here.
The Galley Beggar Press
Short Story Prize 2023/24
