The Welkin Writing Prize is free-to-enter and is open to all forms of narrative prose, be that flash fiction, short-short, vignette, haibun, hermit crab, prose poem or work that sits outside such labels. As long as it’s less than 400 words and has some form of narrative thread, then anything goes (pretty much).
The Welkin Writing Prize
For narrative prose up to 400 words
Free-to-enter
Deadline = 28th February 2023
1st place = £150 + annual membership of Writers’ HQ worth £190
2nd place = £75 + AdHoc Fiction book voucher worth £25
3rd place = £50 + a copy of “Deflection” by Roberta Beary
Additional £25 prizes for best non-placed: (1) writer with a disability or chronic health condition, (2) LGBTQ+ writer, (3) working class writer, (4) writer whose first (or home) language isn’t English, (5) carer for an adult dependent, (6) new writer (for a writer with five or fewer publishing credits), (7) historical fiction, (8) humorous prose, (9) speculative fiction
Full details and entry form can be found at: https://www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-prize
