To Hull And Back Humorous Short Story Competition

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The 2025 To Hull And Back Humorous Short Story Competition

The 9th To Hull And Back short story competition is open until 30th June 2025

July 2024 saw the launch of the 9th To Hull And Back Humorous Short Story Competition, a biennial writing contest with a humorous twist that celebrates the most imaginative and amazing short stories from writers all over the world.

Some highly prestigious writing contests offer huge cash prizes – for example, the BBC award a whopping £15,000 to their winner. What can you win by entering this competition that contends with short story prize giving heavyweights? THE most amazing, innovative and sought after writing prize on the planet. Forget the Pulitzer. THIS is the mother of all writing competitions.

Admittedly, I may have slipped into sales-pitch-chaos-mayhem-overdrive-mode whilst writing the opening paragraphs, but I firmly believe that I can live up to expectation. Keep reading to see if you agree...

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The To Hull And Back Humorous Short Story Competition Runs Biennially

Due to the ever-increasing amount of time needed to run this fabulous competition, in 2019 I made the decision to run the To Hull And Back Humorous Short Story Competition biennially (every other year). This was to make the workload manageable and ensure that every story entered into the competition is given the attention it deserves.

In 2021, for the same reasons as above, I changed the opening and closing dates:

  • Opening date changed from 1st August to 1st July
  • Closing date changed from 31st July to 30th June

The dates for future competitions will be as follows:

  • The 10th To Hull And Back, 2027 (opens 1st July 2026, closes 30th June 2027)
  • The 11th To Hull And Back, 2029 (opens 1st July 2028, closes 30th June 2029)
  • Etc.
 

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