The 2021 Commonwealth Short Story Prize

Open for submissions until 1 November 2020

The Commonwealth Short Story Prize is awarded for the best piece of unpublished short fiction (2,000–5,000 words). Regional winners each receive £2,500 and the opportunity to be published online by Granta magazine, and the overall winner receives £5,000. As well as English, stories are accepted in the Bengali, Chinese, French, Greek, Kiswahili, Malay, Portuguese, Samoan, Tamil and Turkish languages. Translated entries from any language into English are also eligible. If the winning story is a translation, the translator receives additional prize money.

The competition is free to enter and open to any citizen of a Commonwealth country who is aged 18 and over.

List of Commonwealth Countries:

Africa

• Botswana
• Cameroon
• Gambia
• Ghana
• Kenya
• Kingdom of eSwatini
• Lesotho
• Malawi
• Mauritius
• Mozambique
• Namibia
• Nigeria
• Rwanda
• Seychelles
• Sierra Leone
• South Africa
• Uganda United
• Republic of Tanzania
• Zambia

Asia

• Bangladesh
• Brunei Darussalam
• India
• Malaysia
• Maldives
• Pakistan
• Singapore
• Sri Lanka
• Caribbean
• Americas

Antigua and Barbuda

• Bahamas
• The Barbados
• Belize
• Canada
• Dominica
• Grenada
• Guyana
• Jamaica
• Saint Lucia
• St Kitts and Nevis
• St Vincent and The Grenadines
• Trinidad and Tobago

Europe

• Cyprus
• Malta
• United Kingdom
• Pacific
• Australia
• Fiji
• Kiribati
• Nauru
• New Zealand
• Papua New Guinea
• Samoa
• Solomon Islands
• Tonga
• Tuvalu
• Vanuatu

The 2021 Commonwealth Short Story Prize is open for online entries until 1 November 2020.

Please read the rules below and enter your story via the online entry form.

Rules are available HERE.

You can submit your novel HERE.