Our 2024 competition is now closed
Good luck to everyone who entered!
Our judge this year is the writer, teacher and editor Mary-Jane Holmes. The competition winner will receive £500 and three finalists will receive £50. The winner and finalists will be published in Mslexia, with eight additional finalists, along with the four winners, appearing in our ebook anthology Best Women's Short Fiction 2024.
Find out how 2023 winner Manu St. Thomas did it here, and check out our ebook anthology Best Women's Short Fiction 2023, which features our winner, three finalists and eight additional stories, to see last year's winning entries.
Those who entered will be notified via email in November 2024.
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