Welcome to Cranked Anvil HQ!
Cranked Anvil is an award-winning independent media company. Our mission is to engage with writers and new writing in the following four fields:
Writing Competitions, Literary Agency, Indie Press, and Audio & Theatrical Productions.
Writing Competitions
Our Short Story and Flash Fiction competitions run all year round and are open internationally.
Literary Agency
We represent playwrights, working to place their work with theatres and producing companies up and down the country.
Indie Press
Publishing quality print anthologies featuring the best of our competition entries, as well as stand-alone volumes by other authors.
Productions
Podcasts; video & digital media; theatre productions. Our qualified and highly experienced team of creatives continue to produce award-winning work.
Featured news from around our website…
New Microfiction at CA –
Fiction 123
Tell us a story of no more than 123 words, and we’ll publish it here on our website – NO FEES to submit!
Loads of new writerly stuff coming your way
Find out about all the exciting new projects and opportunities for writers we’re working on at the moment…
Flash Fiction –
Finding The Rhythm
If you’re entering our writing competitions, check out this great guest blog from Jo Gatford at WritersHQ
Testimonials
Writing Flash Fiction? Discover brilliant places to submit including Cranked Anvil.
Rae Cowie, writer & blogger
Thanks Cranked Anvil! A great place to submit your work.
Jason Jackson, competition winner
Shout out to some people who have shown much kindness and generosity to me and my writing this year: …Cranked Anvil, for the competitions and the anthology.
Cath Barton, anthology contributor
Competition Winning Stories
Read all of our winning stories from these links…
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