The Galley Beggar Press
Short Story Prize 2024/25

WELCOME TO the Galley Beggar Press Short Story Prize 2024/25. 

Now in its tenth year, the prize was set up to help Galley Beggar Press support talented new writers, and to demonstrate the wonderful things that can be done with the short story form. It’s been a fantastic success. Our longlisted, shortlisted, and winning authors have since signed on with agents and secured book deals as a result of taking part in the prize. Our winners have been profiled in the Bookseller, the Irish Times, Guardian and elsewhere. We’ve had readings and discussions about the prize at book festivals. We’ve recorded podcasts. And each year, we have been amazed – and inspired – at the sheer talent and originality of the submissions, as well as the dazzling possibilities of the genre.

You can read more about the prize – with information on the prizes, judges, deadlines, and how to enter – here.
 
To learn more about previous finalists – with links to many of their stories – click here.
 
We also recommend that you read our past winners by clicking on the following links: ‘Santa Fe’ (by Max Lury, winner of the 2023/24 prize), ‘Signs and Wonders’ (by Timna Fibert, winner of the 2022/23 prize); ‘Arrival’ (by Gurnaik Johal, winner of the 2021/22 prize); ‘Single Sit’ (by Edward Hogan, winner of the 2020/21 prize); ‘All In Good Time’ (by Isha Karki, winner of the 2019/20 prize); ‘When can you start?’ (by Anna Woods, winner of the 2018/19 Prize), ‘Brothers’ (by C.S. Mee, winner of the 2017/19 Prize), ‘Marlene or Number 16’ (by Yelena Moskovich, winner of the 2016/17 Prize), ‘Backburn’ (by Riona Judge McCormack, winner of the inaugural 2015/16 Prize).
 
To enter the 2024/25 Galley Beggar Press Short Story Prize, click here.