We are open for your submissions until Sunday 31 March at 23.59
We are still open for your submissions but close at 23.59 (one minute to midnight) on Sunday 31 March.
Please think of these themes as widely as possible - both metaphorically/emotionally as well as literally/actually.
We are looking for well-crafted and engaging short stories, which will entertain, excite and inspire our audience. As ever, the dark, the ironic and the funny are very welcome.
And, of course, it's free to submit.
Rules and How to Submit here
My co-judge (for the third time) will be brilliant short story author/novelist Ali Bacon. We will select ten stories to be read by their authors on Sunday 19 May at The Cotswold Playhouse in Parliament Street, Stroud, GL5 1LW. Doors open at 7.30. It starts at 8.00. There is a bar!
We are delighted to be holding our event at this brilliant venue. As you may know, we were asked to leave the SVA after seven years because we had "outgrown" it. So having completely sold-out the SVA's 70-seater room in advance twelve times in succession (in May in less than six hours), we are hopeful that the Cotswold Playhouse's 150 seat auditorium will allow everyone who wants to attend to be there.
TICKETS, priced as usual at £8, will be on sale on the Cotswold Playhouse website - https://www.cotswoldplayhouse.co.uk/ - from Friday 12 April.
Ali and I are really looking forward to reading your stories. So if you want up to 150 short story lovers to hear your story you know what to do...
Rules and How to Submit here
Subscribe to Stroud Short Stories newsletters and emails, so you don't miss a thing, here
More info about the judges here
How to buy our new anthology 2015-18 here
Watch/listen the authors at past events read their stories here
John
