Submissions are open for the sixth annual InkTears Short Story Prize [3], given for a short story. The winner will receive £1,000 (approximately $1,500), and his or her story will be e-mailed to the InkTears readership.

Using the online submission system [3], submit a story of 1,000 to 3,500 words with a £6 (approximately $9) entry fee by November 30. Both unpublished and previously published stories are eligible. The winner, runner-up, and four finalists will be announced by March 30, 2015.

Founded by writer and technology entrepreneur Anthony Howcroft [4] in 2009, InkTears [5] is a website devoted to short fiction. Readers receive a story via email each month. In a short video [6] posted in May 2014, Howcroft—who chairs the judging panel for the prize—offers advice to writers who are submitting to the short story contest: Make it a story only you can tell; read the rules; show, don’t tell; make sure to use a consistent point of view; and focus more on the story than on its grammar.

Tom Serengeti won the 2013 prize [7] for his story “Messenger to Riverlea.” For the 2013 competition, InkTears received over five hundred submissions.