2021 Commonwealth Short Story Prize

The 2021 Commonwealth Short Story Prize is open for entries. The Commonwealth Short Story Prize is awarded for the best piece of unpublished short fiction (2,000–5,000 words). The competition is free to enter and open to any citizen of a Commonwealth country who is aged 18 and over.

Regional winners each receive £2,500 and the opportunity to be published online by Granta magazine, and the overall winner receives £5,000.

As well as English, stories are accepted in the Bengali, Chinese, French, Greek, Kiswahili, Malay, Portuguese, Samoan, Tamil and Turkish languages. Translated entries from any language into English are also eligible. If the winning story is a translation, the translator receives additional prize money.

Please read Eligibility and Entry Rules for all other information.

The 2021 Commonwealth Short Story Prize is open for online entries until 1 November 2020.