You have until midnight on 1 July to send us a historical short story of up to 3500 words. Entry fee is still £5 and we’ll publish the six shortlisted stories in our annual anthology. All details here. Open this post for the link, or go direct to https://historicalwriters.org/ddshwass-award-2025/
Many congratulations to our 2024 winner, K.F. MacCarthy, our highly commended writers, Liz Kershaw and Elaine O’Connor, and our shortlisted writers Laura Karim, Muiread O’Hanlon and Cath Staincliffe. The anthology is available here