This is a short fiction contest for emerging writers (open to unpublished writers or those with fewer than four publications in any genre, fiction or non-fiction, from any country), and the theme is The End of the Line. Send a story of up to 2,000 words. Writers are free to interpret the theme as they like; the exact theme phrase must appear somewhere in the story; and writers must create their own title. There’s an early bird deadline at end-May, for which there is no entry fee; if submitting later, there is an entry fee attached.
Value: NZ1,000, NZ500, NZ250
Deadline: 30 May 2026 (for fee-free entries)
Open for: Unpublished / emerging writers
Details here.

Deadline: May 30th, 2026