The Madrid-based Desperate Literature program and the BBC National Short Story Award open submissions and name their 2021 jurors.

Amid the churn of early-year publishing awards programs and their many announcements, certain swirls and eddies always turn up as various programs’ focal formats cluster together. This, it turns out, is Short Fiction Week.

On Wednesday (July 13), we learned the writers behind the Costa Book Awards’ three shortlisted short stories.
Today (January 14) in Madrid, the Desperate Literature Short Fiction Prize is opening its fourth year’s submissions and announcing its jurors.

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