A month from today—August 1—we begin accepting submissions for The Ghost Story Supernatural Fiction Award. Halloween publication, $1k first prize. Magic realism and supernatural short stories. Can’t wait to start reading again!
0ur Summer 2020 Ghost Story Supernatural Fiction Award-winning stories are now published. Have a look! And keep in mind that we’ll being accepting submissions to our Fall competition on August 1. Happy reading.
Hi, writers. Lest you think we might be distracted from reading your work by current events —we are not. In fact, reading stories submitted to The Ghost Story Supernatural Fiction Award competition is perhaps more important to us now than it’s ever been. Not only does reading your work help distract us from the non-supernatural horror going on around us, but it helps us focus on what is, and what always will be, the reason we do this thing: To showcase the best in supernatural short stories that the world has to offer. Thanks for listening. Kudos for continuing to produce art, though you might be frightened, and your heart might be breaking. We’ll get through this—maybe a little sadder, but also wiser and stronger. — Your Editor
Deadline: April 30 for The Ghost Story Supernatural Fiction Award competition. We want exciting, thought-provoking short stories incorporating a supernatural theme or element. Contemporary magic realism is more than welcome. $1,000 for the winner; two honorable mentions receive $250. Midsummer’s Eve online publication for all three, plus print anthology publication in Volume II of “21st Century Ghost Stories.” (Volume I was published in 2018 by Wyrd Harvest Press of Durham, U.K., and is available for purchase.) 1,500-10,000 words. $20 submission fee. Visit our Guidelines page.
Volume II of our print anthology, “21st Century Ghost Stories,” has just been published. It contains all of our Summer 2018 to Summer 2021 winning and honorable mention stories from The Ghost Story Supernatural Fiction Award contest and The Screw Turn Flash Fiction Competition—30 fine supernatural short stories in all!
