Our 2025 competition is now open!
Submit complete short fiction on any subject, up to 3,000 words.
Our judge this year is award-winning author Eley Williams. The winning prize is a whopping £3,000 and three finalists will receive £100. 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 2024 winner Lauren Collett did it here, and check out our ebook anthology Best Women's Short Fiction 2024, which features our winner, three finalists, eight additional stories (plus the winner, finalists and runners up of our flash fiction competition), from this years competition.
Closing date: 23.59GMT, 22 September
Please note: The Mslexia office is now closed for the evening, but if you have any trouble entering the competition tonight, please don't panic! Just email your entry directly to competitions@mslexia.co.uk and a member of the team will get back to you in the morning.
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