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HG WELLS SHORT STORY COMPETITION

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Application Deadline: Monday, 8th July 2025, 11pm (BST)

LOCATION: United Kingdom

The annual HG Wells Fiction Short Story Competition offers a £500 Senior and £1,000 Junior prize and free publication of all shortlisted entries in a quality, professionally published paperback anthology.

ELIGIBILITY:

HG Wells welcome, and receive, entries from across the world. The competition is open to any writer, anywhere, from any country

HG Wells was a self-taught writer, so we warmly encourage anybody to give it a go

The competition for those 21 and under is free to enter and for the over 21s costs £10 (£5 with student ID) to enter.

Entries must be in English.

Double quotation marks should be used for speech and single quotation marks for other appropriate purposes.

The length must be 1,500 to 5,000 words.

Entry to the competition are online only, with entrants submitting their story (as a PDF or text document) and any fee as appropriate via our entry form

All submissions should be the writer’s original work. You should not submit the work of others, either in part or in translation.

The story may not be published, or accepted for publication, elsewhere including for other publications by the shortlist announcement date (Saturday 21st September).

There is a template available below to make ensure your story is formatted correctly. You do not have to use it, but if it helps, please do so. However, whether you use the template or not, the pages should be numbered but the entrant’s name should not appear on any page except on the entry form

All entries must relate to the theme for this year’s Competition: The Middle Ground

Entrants must read the Competition Rules before submitting their story/stories.

BENEFIT:

The annual HG Wells Fiction Short Story Competition offers a £500 Senior and £1,000 Junior prize and free publication.

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RICHARD AND SUSAN HAYDEN ACADEMY FELLOWSHIP

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Application Deadline: 12 am GMT on Wednesday, 19 March.

LOCATION: England

This fellowship is a joint initiative with Richard and Susan Hayden. It offers candidates at the early-to-mid-stage of their career the opportunity to spend ten months at Chatham House working on an individual research project of their choosing. Open to candidates from around the world and who are at the mid-stage of their career working in academia, NGOs, business, government departments, civil society or the media.

ELIGIBILITY:

Citizenship: The fellowship is open to all nationalities.

Education: Applicants must hold a completed BA degree or equivalent and have experience with conducting research.

Career: The ideal candidate should be at the early-to-mid-stage of their career and come from one of the following fields or work: academia, NGO, business, government departments, civil society or the media. All applicants should possess knowledge of, and an interest in, international affairs, their chosen area of research, and Chatham House’s mission and research.

Age restrictions: They do not impose age restrictions for applicants.

Can I undertake other work or study at the same time as my fellowship?

Fellows are expected to work full-time towards their fellowship and therefore it is not possible to undertake a fellowship at the same time as pursuing work or studies.

BENEFIT:

The fellow receives a monthly stipend of £2,365 which covers London living costs, including accommodation, utilities, food, transport and other basic expenses.

The Academy covers reasonable costs related to:

Relocation e.g., flights, train, other transportation to and from the UK, three nights of accommodation, visas, extra cases or boxes, etc.;

Payment of the UK’s Immigration Healthcare Surcharge which allows access to the UK National Health Service (Note: you may be required to pay for dental and optical treatments and medicines prescribed by a doctor); and

Research, outreach and dissemination costs e.g., fieldwork, travel, conferences, publication, roundtables, events, etc.

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