The Mslexia Women's Short Story Competition 2012 is now open for submissions.

• Stories can be up to 2,200 words in length and can be on any subject.
• Please submit your work typed, double-spaced on A4 paper, single sided, with pages numbered.
• Your entry will be judged anonymously, so do not put your name on the pages of your story. Use a separate cover page with your name, address, telephone number and email address, plus the title of the story you are submitting and a word count. If submitting more than one entry, there is no need for a separate envelope for each entry. Download a cover sheet in .doc format from here.
• No alterations may be made to a story once submitted.
• Your story will not be returned, so please keep a copy. If you want confirmation that we have received your postal entry, please enclose an SAE, labelled ‘Acknowledgement’. Sorry, but we do not send copies of the result to entrants.
• The winners will be contacted by post in May 2012 and the winning stories published in the Jun/Jul/Aug 2012 issue of Mslexia. (No competitor will win more than one prize).
• Copyright of any story remains with the author, but Mslexia has the unrestricted right to publish the winning stories in its magazine, on its website, and in any related material for PR purposes.

JUDGE: Tessa Hadley

1st Prize: £2,000 plus a week's writing retreat at Chawton House Library* and a day with a Virago editor**
2nd Prize: £500, 3rd Prize: £250

Three other finalists win £100 each.
All winning stories will be published in issue 54 of Mslexia.

Further details here.

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