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 full details Today marks a new era for the great city of Melbourne. After 25 years of incredible architecture and engineering, the Central Business Cube, the CBC, is now complete. Our future downtown is no dome, it is a place of straight lines. Only the most righteous angles will protect our glorious commercial district.   "One of our founders, Robert Russell, dreamt of the Hoddle Grid project, an organised collection of parallel and perpendicular streets that would form the Central Business District, the CBD. This area became the beating heart of the great southern bastion, our city of Melbourne. Russell's dream will be protected forever more, but now in the 3rd Dimension.   I now declare the Central Business Cube officially open for business." - Lord Mayor of Melbourne, Francis 'The Permit' Doyle, 1st of January, 2055 ...

  Full  details Share your words with us and the world Chance of winning up to £2000 in the short story and poetry main prizes. Separate short story and poetry prize winning categories for those aged 17-25 and for local Bedford residents. For 2026 we are running a Flash Fiction competition in memory of one of the founder members of The Bedford Competition, Philip Carey who passed away earlier this year. All profits will go to Dementia UK , Philip’s chosen charity. See all competition categories and prize money here . Open to writers worldwide. Why enter The Bedford Competition? International recognition. Publication in anthology of shortlisted entries. Judged by acclaimed authors and literary agents. Awards event celebration. Established competition founded in 2012 . How it works S...

 Full details About the Award Established in 2001, The New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award is a $10,000 prize awarded each spring to a writer aged 35 or younger for a novel or a collection of short stories. Each year, five young fiction writers are selected as finalists by a reading committee of Young Lions members, writers, editors, and librarians. A panel of judges selects the winner. Founded by Ethan Hawke, Jennifer Rudolph Walsh, Rick Moody, and Hannah McFarland—and made possible by an endowment created with generous gifts from Russell Abrams, Nina Collins, Hannah and Gavin McFarland, Ethan Hawke, Stephan Loewentheil, Rick Moody, Andrea Olshan and Jennifer Rudolph Walsh—this annual award recognizes the work of young authors and celebrates their accomplishments publicly, making a difference in their lives as they continue to build their careers. ​ This prize is part of the Library's Young Lions program, a membership group for people in their 20s and...

 Full details  ** Please put the anthology you're submitting to, and the word count of the story in the subject line of the email. **   ** If your story is a reprint, please put in parentheses the previous publication/year under the byline in your document. **   Payment for accepted stories will be $5 USD per 1000 words for all current anthologies. Payments occur via PayPal, so please have a PayPal account into which we can pay you. We will also provide you with a digital copy (epub and pdf) of the finished manuscript. (Paperback and hard cover editions will be available via Amazon.)   We're looking for speculative fiction across all anthologies (unless otherwise specified). That includes everything from high fantasy to hard scifi and anything in between.   We do accept reprints, simultaneous submissions, and multiple submissions, though these will slow down our response time.   Story lengths should be anywhere from flash-length to abou...