by Editor
on January 6, 2018
Vol. I Anthologizes All Our Contest Winners, 2015-2018
Our Paperbound Anthology Is Now Available
The Ghost Story is proud to announce the publication of an illustrated paperbound anthology containing 29 stories that have won or received honorable mentions in either The Ghost Story Supernatural Fiction Award or The Screw Turn Flash Fiction Competition. The book anthologizes every winning and honorable mention story recognized with one of our awards and published on The Ghost Story website between 2015 and early 2018.
You can order a copy now!
The anthology, entitled 21st Century Ghost Stories, is a project of TGS and Wyrd Harvest Press, of Durham, U.K. Volume II of 21st Century Ghost Stories—Volume II, which will include winners and honorable mentions in our current Supernatural Fiction Award competition, is scheduled for publication in 2021!
All proceeds from the sale of 21st Century Ghost Stories will be donated to projects of Britain’s Wildlife Trusts.
by Editor
on December 10, 2017
Image: Curtis MacNewton
The Screw Turn Flash Fiction Competition
It’s now time for another Ghost Story Awards contest. The Screw Turn Flash Fiction Competition is now open for submissions. Short-short stories of between 250 and 1,000 words will be eligible for cash prizes of $300, $100, and $50, as well as Valentine’s Day publication on The Ghost Story Website.
You might remember that last year’s winner was Mindy McGinnis, who also won a 2016 Edgar Allan Poe Award for her novel, A Madness So Discreet. You can read Mindy’s story, “Solitude,” as well as the two stories that won honorable mentions in our flash-fiction contest, right here.
And you can click right here for guidelines to our 2018 contest. Good luck!
by Editor
on October 31, 2017
Illustration by Andy Paciorek
Our Fall Short Story Competition
It’s Halloween, which means that it’s time to announce (and publish) the Winner and two Honorable Mentions in the fall 2017 Ghost Story Supernatural Fiction Award contest. The winner received a $1,000 cash award, and the Honorable Mention and Second Honorable Mention received $250 and $100 respectively. All three were custom illustrated by British artist Andy Paciorek, and all are now available for your reading pleasure.
We will begin accepting submissions to our spring 2018 competition in mid February. But don’t forget that The Screw Turn Flash Fiction Competition—for short-short stories of under a thousand words—begins in mid December. We’ll post an announcement on our home page in a few weeks. Meanwhile, click here for complete guidelines.
by Editor
on October 15, 2017
“ANY OLD FAIRY TALE” BY ARTHUR WILD PARSONS
he winners of the fall, 2017 Ghost Story Supernatural Fiction Award are on their way. As aways, we’ll be revealing them, and publishing them, right here on Halloween, complete with custom artwork by British illustrator
Andy Paciorek.
This time around, we received a record number of submissions—almost 200 in all. If you entered, regardless of whether you won, or didn’t win, thank you for your submission, and you’ll be hearing from us soon.
