⚡LAST DAY⚡
Today is the final day to submit your short stories to the Short Fiction Prize! We are accepting submissions until midnight CET.
2000 words
2000€ 1st prize
Residencies at Civitella Ranieri and Studio Faire
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Sunday the day for finishing that story?

Winner - €2,000
Runners-up - €1,000

A week in Civitella Ranieri
A meeting with Charlotte Seymour
A manuscript assessment from The Literary Consultancy

Shortlisters -
Publishing opportunities w/ 8 journals

& one shortlister - 2 weeks at Studio Faire

Wonderful! And well-deserved. We'll throw our weight behind this novel by Francesca Reece, winner of our 2019 Short Fiction Prize.

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PRIZE INTERVIEWS
Tomorrow we drop an interview w/ author Pip Finkemeyer, but first check out chats w/ Ottessa Moshfegh, Mariana Enríquez, Tiffany Tsao & Anton Hur

“BY THE TIME I GET TO THE END OF THE SHORT STORY, I WANT MY ENTIRE LIFE TO HAVE CHANGED.”

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special edition pamphlet of poems from Judas Goat translated into Spanish by the brilliant Bárbara Bianchi Ceballos & printed on what is frankly the sexiest paper I’ve ever touched ~~~

Everyone’s attentiveness, warmth, & depth of engagement last night in Madrid was unlike anything I’ve ever experienced in the U.S.—packed house in the bookshop & then we all went out to drink & chat about translation, poems, & ghosts until 3am, an absolute dream

Event this FRIDAY!!!!
20h for LaNochedelosLibros

Coming out of Twitter hibernation to celebrate that my story ‘Occupants’ is in the new issue of the very glamorous The London Magazine 🙏

Look out for 2018 prize-winner Ed Cottrell Edward Alan Cottrell's story 'Occupants' in the current issue of The London Magazine!
We love seeing writers whose stories moved us so deeply at the DesperateLit Short Fiction Prize have so much success, so much reach.

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