The stories have been read and re-read, the judging has taken place and final decisions made, and today we're delighted to announce the short list and winners of our final ever Short Story Writing Prize. Congratulations to the following three winning entries: 1st: Dianne Bown-Wilson - A Guttering Candle 2nd: B W Frimston - Beginners … Continue reading June 2025 Short Story Prize – Short List and Winners

The development of Cranked Anvil continues. There's been more added to our website in recent weeks, with further announcements coming soon, all of which are geared towards helping new and established writers to get the most our of their writing. Keep your eyes peeled here and on our social media. If you don't already, hit … Continue reading April 2024 – shortlist and winners

There's lots going on here at Cranked Anvil at the moment, and we're gearing up for some exciting new things in the coming months. Keep an eye out for announcements, both here on our website and across our social media. If you missed our news round-up post on the website yesterday, you can read it … Continue reading April 2024 – Long List

Our regular readers and subscribers will know that our writing competitions took a break at the end of 2022, but a year later - due to many messages and requests - we've been delighted to bring them back. And today we announce the shortlist and winners of the returning Short Story competiton. Congratulations to the … Continue reading January 2024 – shortlist and winners

We're very busy here at Cranked Anvil at the moment! Both our short story and flash fiction competitions are now fully open again, after a break last year. Entries for both competitions are flowing in, and reading and judging is ongoing! Not only that, we're also in the middle of an ANTHOLOGY SALE! It was … Continue reading January 2024 – Long List

Today we announce the shortlist and winners of our final (for now) short story competition. Congratulations to the following three winning entries for October 2022: 1st: Lianne Warr – Year Of The Tiger 2nd: Karen Storey – Not After Midnight 3rd: J D Revitt – The Magnolia Tree Prize money is on its way to … Continue reading October 2022 – shortlist and winners

Hot on the heels of our last prompt competition winners having been announced yesterday, (you can see the short list and read the winners here), we're delighted to announce the long list of our October short story competition today. Congratulations to the following authors: Gillian BrownJackie DavisR Aaron FalkLee IrvingDavid JacksonTaria KarillionRaymond KozlowskiGwenda MajorDan MicklethwaiteAdam … Continue reading October 2022 – Long List

With the Summer break well and truly over now, it's full steam ahead again here at CAHQ. A couple of weeks ago we announced that we're collaborating with Manchester-based writer Dr Tania Hershman, as she puts together a print anthology of flash to raise money for fuel poverty organisations. You can read all about that … Continue reading July 2022 – shortlist and winners