Basket: The 2025 short story competition has now closed.
The winners of the competition will be announced at an awards ceremony in March. Host Rachel Teate will present the evening as we discover who has won prizes in this year’s competition. Judges Judith Baker, Natalie Scott and Trevor Wood will give insight into the judging process and author Amy Lord will talk about her experience as Writer-in-Residence during the 2025 festival.
The winning entries of the short story competition will be announced – (1st Prize £100, 2nd prize £75, 3rd prize £50).
All shortlisted writers will be gifted a copy of the anthology and there will be further copies available to buy.
Following the ceremony there will be time to network and official photographs will be taken by Scott Bonner.
All shortlisted writers will be invited to the ceremony. Tickets will then be made available to the general public.
Here are photos of last year’s awards ceremony. We look forward to sharing images of this year’s winners after the ceremony in March 2026.
