The Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award 2016

The £30,000 Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award is calling  for submissions for 2016 .

The Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award is the richest prize for a single short story in the English language open to any novelist or short story writer from around the world who is published in the UK.

Worth £30,000 to the winner, and open to stories of 6,000 words or fewer, the international award, one of the highlights of the literary calendar, has attracted a remarkable list of entrants in its first six years.

The Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award stages two reading events each year when outstanding actors read shortlisted stories hosted by Foyles in their flagship store on Charing Cross Road, London and partnered with WordTheatre, the story performance specialists.

Requirements:

• The Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award is open to writers of any nationality; entrants just have to show a previous record of publication in creative writing in the UK and Ireland
• Entries can be either unpublished or published within the previous 12 months.
• The Award is open to authors writing in the English language, aged 18 years or over at the time
  of submission , who must have been previously published in the English language in the UK or Ireland.
• The Entry must not contain more than six thousand (6,000) words. The word count should be
  listed on the Entry and must be precise
• Entries may be submitted by the author or by his/her publisher or agent with the author’s
  consent.
• Writers have until Thursday, September 24, to submit their story.
• The winner will be announced at a gala dinner at Stationers’ Hall, London, in April next year, following the announcement of the longlist in early February and the shortlist in early March.

Prize:

Worth £30,000 to the winner, and £1,000 to each of the shortlisted authors, the annual award aims to promote and celebrate the excellence of the modern short story, and has attracted entries from some of the world’s finest writers.

 For More Information:

Visit the Official Webpage of the Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award 2016