Our 2025 competition is now open!
Send us your short fiction, no more than 300 words
Our judge this year was writer and tutor Amanda Saint. The winning prize is a whopping £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 Fiction 2025.
Find out how our 2024 Bronwen Griffiths did it here, and check out our ebook anthology Best Women's Short Fiction 2024, which features our winner, three finalists and eight additional stories (plus the winners, finalist and runners up of our short story competition), to read all our winning entries.
Closing date: 22 September
Enter below!
