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Welcome to Cranked Anvil

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Keep checking back over the next few days and weeks to see what we’re going to be offering.

Cranked Anvil is an award-winning independent publishing and media company.
Our mission is to engage with writers and new writing in the following fields:
Writing Competitions and Prizes, Digital Publishing Service, Audio Productions, Feedback/Critique Service.

Writing Prizes

Our Writing Prizes are returning very soon – including a NEW SCRIPTWRITING competition.

Indie Press

Publishing quality print anthologies featuring the best of our competition entries, as well as stand-alone volumes by other authors.

Feedback

We offer a critique/feedback service to our flash entrants – with a rolling discount included.

Featured news from around our website…

NEW scriptwriting competition

Coming Soon – an exciting new scriptwriting competition here at Cranked Anvil.

Microfiction

Read the best microfiction submitted to us over the past year in our Micro 1-2-3 subs window.

Feedback/critique service

Exclusively available to all our flash fiction competition entrants – with discounts on offer!

Testimonials

Thank you for Cranked Anvil’s support on my writing journey. Since having successes in your competitions, I was able to get an agent and a book deal. Winning and being placed in your competitions were a huge boost and helped validate, and instil confidence in, my writing.

Richard Hooton, past competition winner and now published author of The Margaret Code

I wanted to share this news and officially thank Cranked Anvil for the impact it had on my writing life. This was the first time I’d ever made it into the top three, which meant a huge amount to me. I’ve continued to enter competitions and have had more successes, including being Highly Commended in the Bridport Flash Fiction Prize and winning the £2000 Edinburgh Award.

Hannah Retallick, past competition winner and author of short story collection Something Very Human

Writing Flash Fiction? Discover brilliant places to submit including Cranked Anvil.

Rae Cowie, writer and blogger

Thanks Cranked Anvil. A great place to submit your work.

Jason Jackson, competition winner

Shout out to Cranked Anvil, for the competitions and the anthology.

Cath Barton, anthology contributor