The 2019 Commonwealth Short Story Prize, an initiative of Commonwealth Writers, is now open for Short fiction submissions, and entrants have no restriction on setting, grenre or theme for their story.

The competition which also requires no entry fee covers countries* of the Commonwealth regions of Africa, Asia, Canada and Europe, Caribbean and Pacific. 

The Prize is awarded to the best piece of unpublished short fiction of 2000 to 5000 words in English. Translated entries are eligible, as well as short stories written in the original Bengali, Chinese, Kiswahili, Malay, Portuguese, Samoan and Tamil.

Regional winners will receive £2,500, while the overall winner receives £5,000. The translator of a winning short story into English will receive additional prize money.

The five winning stories from the 2019 competition will be published online by Granta.

The submission for the Prize opens on 1st of September, 2018 and will close on 1st of November 2018. 

To find out more about the contest's eligibility criteria and rules, kindly click HERE TO DOWNLOAD. 

Enter for the competition after reading the rules via HERE.

* See Section 4 for countries in the regions mentioned in this story.