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The Galley Beggar Press Short Story Prize 2025/26
OPEN TO SUBMISSIONS
WINNING STORY £2500 | SHORTLIST £200 | LONGLIST £50 BOOK VOUCHERS + SUBSCRIPTION
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Judges
Sebastian Godwin | Sam Mills | Selby Wynn schwartz
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KEY INFORMATION AND DATES
ENTRY COST: £11 (PLUS 200 LOW-EARNER FREE ENTRIES
CLOSING DATE FOR SUBMISSIONS: 8 NOVEMBER 2025
FOR FULL INFORMATION HEAD to our prize page, HERE
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ENTER THE GBP SHORT STORY PRIZE 2025/26 HERE
recent titles
waterblack, by alex Pheby
“A magnificent and intellectual delight brimming with outlandish notions. He’s made me laugh, gasp, and hold back tears. What more could I want?” —Ian Mond, Locus Magazine
“Pheby’s phenomenal command of narrative crafts not just a phenomenal book, but a phenomenal ending to his titanic, grotesque, epic trilogy.” —Sam Reader, Ancillary Review of Books
“A monstrous achievement, as beautiful as it is disgusting, as funny as it is heartbreaking. Waterblack solidifies The Cities of the Weft as one of my favorite fantasy series of all time.” —Hiron Ennes
Read an extract here
Buy a copy here
ALL MY PRECIOUS MADNESS, BY MARK BOWLES
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 GOLDSMITHS PRIZE, the 2025 James tait black prize for fiction, and the 2025 authors’ club best first novel award
“A striking debut [that] explores working-class identity, masculinity and alienation… a polemic against narcissism, small-mindedness and mean-spiritedness… a poignant meditation on a son’s love for his father.” —Lucy Popescu, The Observer
“Unapologetically erudite and frequently brutal… a devastating satire on the way in which class, education and masculinity act as a kind of trap.” —Jeremy Wikeley, The Telegraph
read our Q&A with Mark here
Read an extract here
buy a copy here
Mary and the Rabbit Dream, by noémi kiss-deáki
“This novel sing(s).” —Norma Cooke, The TLS
“A romp… Original, supple, smartly self-conscious… Mary and the Rabbit Dream is a delight: cunning, curious, cunicular." —Lucy Scholes, The Telegraph
“To create something so playfully provocative, subversive and gripping displays a rare literary talent.” —Benjamin Myers, author of Cuddy and The Gallows Pole
Read an extract here
read our q&a with noémi here
buy a copy here
Beasts of england, by adam biles
“[Adam Biles] takes the code of Orwell’s 1949 book and makes them into something thrilling of his own.” —The Sunday Times
“A timely and worthy successor to Animal Farm.” —The Observer
“In Beasts of England, Adam Biles has updated and retooled Animal Farm for today, and in this clever, resourceful and at times painful novel, the risk pays off.” —The Guardian
