Welcome to the Galley Beggar Press Short Story Prize Free Entry Portal.  You will be able to submit at the bottom of this page. Before you do, please refer to the guidelines below and please read the note at the end the importance of not sharing this link. Any writers who submit via this website without having being granted a free place will have their stories automatically deleted.

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Please read the following notes carefully: 

- Please submit your free entry story to us by the Prize deadline (midnight UK time, on the 8th November 2025).

- Please refer to the Galley Beggar Press prize page for further information, entry guidelines and FAQs,(www.galleybeggar.co.uk/prize), and please be aware that by submitting to the Prize, you agree to the Prize's terms and conditions (www.galleybeggar.co.uk/short-story-prize-tc).

- Please also note that we cannot not reply to personal emails or offer further communication to writers who submit to the Prize (this is because of time management, and also to ensure that there is no preferential treatment to any single candidate). You should find all of the information that you need on this page and at www.galleybeggar.co.uk/prize – and we wish you the very best of luck. 

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IMPORTANT: Please do not share this link with others, and do not submit more than one short story (which is your allocation). All free entries are checked against our in-house database (using your name and email) and any additional entries, or entries by writers not on the database, will be automatically deleted.