Each November full members have the opportunity to enter the competition to win the Manuscript of the Year Trophy.
Entrants are given a set theme in the Autumn issue of the club magazine ‘Scribe’, and members have 250 words to create a story.
This year’s theme is CLIMATE.
Writers enter their stories under a pseudonym, requesting either a male or female reader for their story.
After all the entries have been read twice, voting takes place.
The top three entries are announced (in reverse order) and the winning writers reveal their identity.
The winning writer holds the trophy from Awards Night in December around to November the following year.
The 5th NWC National Short Story Competition is open for entries from the 1st February to the 28th February.
This year’s theme is the Seasons: spring, summer, autumn, winter- choose one.
This year we have made a few changes to the rules of entry, so please read the rules in the entry pack to check you’re eligible, before you submit your short story.
You may enter online, or by post.
Please don’t submit poems, chapbooks, or non-fiction under the guise of a short story.
Our judge this year is short story writer Fran Tracey; Fran worked as a professional librarian before becoming a full-time writer fifteen years ago, and writes regularly for Woman’s Weekly, My Weekly and other magazines both in the UK and internationally.
Her first published story appeared in ‘You’ magazine in South Africa. She has won and been runner up in a number of national writing competitions and her work has featured in numerous anthologies, the most recent being ‘For sale: baby shoes, never worn’, a charity anthology for ‘Make a Wish Foundation’ based upon the Ernest Hemmingway very short story.
We look forward to reading your stories this year…
