The Sunday Post short story writing competition is back for 2025

The word is out. The Sunday Post is on the hunt for Scotland’s best unpublished, amateur fiction writers and you may well be among them.

If you can spin a good yarn, if your imagination knows no bounds, if the characters in your head won’t rest until they’re on the page, then we want to hear from you.

Today The Sunday Post launches its hotly awaited annual Short Story Competition – the third since it began in 2023.

So popular was are the ­contests that the crème de la crème of Scotland’s writers – Sir Alexander McCall Smith, and Bloody Scotland festival founders Dr Alex Gray and Lin Anderson – are back to judge entries, along with The Sunday Post and P.S. magazine books editor and competition co-ordinator Sally McDonald.

So, if you’ve missed our previous contests, or entered and didn’t win, now is your chance.

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