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Tom Grass

Jan 14, 2026

The Tom Grass Prize is for stories with a sense of place and adventure. The top prize is £1,000 plus a conversation with a literary agent.

Read the Shortlist!

Nov 9, 2025

You can now read entries from the shortlist for the Michael Round Prize! This includes the entries which came first and second. The results were officially announced at our meeting on 10 November.

Winner: We only Had One Religion (Hashmi-Al-Haseeb Faisal)

We Only Had One ReligionDownload

Second Place: Sniggery Wood (Stuart Wilks-Heeg)

Sniggery WoodDownload

Missing (Celia Gatward)

MissingDownload

Why Don’t You Just Keep Going (Benjamin Graham)

Why Don’t You Just Keep GoingDownload

Dust to Dust (Katie Weatherford)

Dust to DustDownload

Austentatious Dames (Fay Dickinson) has been retained for possible publication elsewhere.

Michael Round Prize

Jun 1, 2025

The Michael Round Prize is now closed. The winner will be announced at our November meeting.

The competition…

  • was free to enter,
  • accepted stories up to 1,200 words on the theme ‘Far and Wide’,
  • offered prizes of £100 and £50
  • was open until 30 September 2025.

The full rules are here.