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Dorothy Dunnett Society / HWA Short Story Competition Longlist
Many congratulations to the writers of our longlisted stories. The shortlist and winning stories will be announced on Friday 3 October! We ended up with nearly 150 stories this year and the standard was extremely high. Many thanks to our first... more
HWA Crown 2025 Longlists
The fantastic books longlisted for the Debut, Gold and Non-Fiction Crowns have been announced! Read all about them at https://historiamag.com/2025-hwa-crown-awards-longlists/ ... more New Final Submission Date for the DDS/HWA Short Story Competition! 1 August 2025
Yes, fate is on your side! You still have time to enter! It looks like we haven’t got the word out enough on the DDS / HWA Short Story Competition this year, so we are extending the deadline to midnight on 1 August 2025. Many thanks to... moreauthor showcase
Richard Kurti
Richard Kurti has been a professional writer for over twenty-six years, working for a wide variety of clients, from US studios such as Warner Bros, Universal and Fox Searchlight, to broadcasters such as the BBC, ITV and Sky. More recently, he diversified into radio drama, with both podcast serials (Amazon Audible) and broadcast drama (BBC Radio 4). Constantly looking to broaden his storytelling skills, he wrote two YA novels (Walker Books), and... more
Alan Bardos
Writing historical fiction combines the first great love of Alan Bardos’ life, making up stories, with the second, researching historical events and characters. He currently lives in Oxfordshire with his wife… the other great love of his life. There is still a great deal of mystery and debate surrounding many of the events of the First World War, which he explores in his Johnny Swift historical fiction series. The series starts with the... more
Alice McVeigh
Alice McVeigh has been published by Orion/Hachette in contemporary fiction, by UK's Unbound in speculative fiction (as Spaulding Taylor) and by Warleigh Hall Press in her current Austenesque series ("McVeigh's celebrated series" - Publishers Weekly). Her novels have been honoured in the UK Selfies Awards at the 2024 London Book Fair, placed as runner-up in General Fiction for Writer's Digest and Foreword Indies' "Book of the Year", won Kirkus... more
Renita DSilva
Renita D’Silva loves stories both reading and creating them. Heartache on West India Dock Road, the third book in her historical saga series set on West India Dock Road, is out on December 09, 2025. Her books have been translated into several languages. Her short stories have been published in The View from Here, Bartleby Snopes, this zine, Platinum Page, Paragraph Planet, Verve among others, have been nominated for the Pushcart prize, the... more
