the short prose prize
Open for submissions 13th April - 31st May 2026
The Glut Short Prose Prize opens for submissions soon.
The winner will receive a £250 prize. We will announce a shortlist and a longlist. We will have a party in London in the fall, in celebration, open to all who are available to attend.
We are looking for pieces of short prose - fiction, nonfiction, anything in between - under 3,000 words. To give you a sense of our taste, we encourage applicants to read our previous editions as well as dipping into the pieces below.
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Learning to Measure Time in Love and Loss, Chris Huntington
Here are our complete guidelines:​​
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Please only submit works 3,000 words or under, excluding the title. Works submitted that are longer than this, even by a handful of words, will not be considered eligible for the competition.
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Please double space submissions and use a legible 12pt font.
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Multiple submissions are accepted, but please note that it is one submission per entry fee, rather than per person. The entry fee must be paid for the submission to be eligible for consideration, unless you are the recipient of a low income entry (see below!).
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We only accept work that has not been published elsewhere. If you are submitting the work for consideration elsewhere, please do let us know if it is accepted.
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We are happy to publish work in translation, if we are the first to publish in English.
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We are unable to provide feedback on unsuccessful submissions​.
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We accept submissions from unpublished and published writers, agented or unagented - previous publication is by no means a requirement.
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We do not accept work that has been generated by, or substantially created by AI.
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We have 10 low income entries available - this will be allocated on a first come, first served basis. If you would like to apply for a low income entry, please email us with the subject heading ‘Waived Entry Fee Application’, with your contact details, along with a brief summary of why you are applying for a low income entry. If selected, we will respond with details of how to submit your piece to the competition.
In the event of publication, copyright remains with the writer. However, if accepted, you grant us free license to publish your work, both in our online journal and our social media pages. If you have granted an exclusive licence for your work elsewhere, we unfortunately will not be able to publish it.
the judges
jessica andrews
Jessica Andrews is a novelist. Her work explores intersections of social class and gender in relation to the body. Her debut novel, Saltwater won the Portico Prize in 2020 and her second novel, Milk Teeth was shortlisted for the Royal Society of Literature Encore Award in 2023. Her work is translated into seven languages. Her stage adaptation of BIFA winning and BAFTA nominated film Saint Maud by Rose Glass ran at Live Theatre in 2024.
She was shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction Futures for writers under the age of 35 and longlisted for the BBC National Short Story Award in 2022. She co-presents literary podcast, Tender Buttons. She is a Lecturer in Creative Writing at City University, London and she also teaches at Faber Academy and ARVON, among others.
francesca reece
Francesca Reece is a writer from North Wales and the author of Voyeur and Glass Houses. Her forthcoming novel, Sleaze, will be published in 2027. She has been shortlisted for the Wales Book of the Year Award and was the 2019 recipient of the Desperate Literature Prize for short fiction. Her work has featured in The London Magazine, Banshee, Literary Review, Elle UK, 22 Fictions and on BBC Short Works. After several years living in Paris, she is now based in London.
katie buckley
Katie Buckley is a British-Canadian writer. She is the co-editor in chief of Glut Press. Her first novel, HERO, was published in 2025. She was a London Library Emerging Writer in 2021 and held the Principal's Masters Scholarship during her MA at Royal Holloway. Her fiction and nonfiction have been published by The Dublin Review of Books, Litro, Eurozine, and O’r Pedwar Gwynt amongst others.
christina carè
Christina Carè is an Australian-Italian-British writer, and co-editor in chief of Glut Press. She studied Architecture and Philosophy before earning her MA in Creative Writing from Royal Holloway. She has been a Genesis Emerging Writers Programme recipient; an Arteles Artist Resident in Finland; awarded first runner up for the Evening Standard Short Story competition; and a London Writers Awardee. She is working on her debut novel.