You can read my story ‘The Crossing’ on the Adda website - shortlisted for the 2025 #CWprize. The other shortlistees are there too, so fill yer boots!
Thanks to the editors and staff at Adda and @cwfcreatives, and to Ameesha Lee for a fantastic illustration.
www.addastories.org/the-crossing/

Chanel was the recipient of QWF's 2022 #MairuthSarsfieldMentorship in Non-Fiction. We couldn't be more excited to see how her career as a writer has flourished ever since!

#CWPrize #QCWriters #QCLit

The regional winners of the Commonwealth Short Story Prize will be announced on 15 May! Find out more about the #CWprize shortlist here: commonwealthfoundation.com/short-story-...

Commonwealth Short Story Prize - Commonwealth Foundation The Commonwealth Short Story Prize is awarded for the best piece of unpublished short fiction (2,000–5,000 words). The competition is free to enter and open to any citizen of a Commonwealth country wh...

didn't make the shortlist (or win!) but i was still excited beyond belief to have been longlisted for the 2025 #CWprize especially knowing that 7,920 writers entered this year. can't wait to try again next year! commonwealthfoundation.com/short-story-...

Now, we look forward to the release of her #CWprize shortlisted story, and we hope you’ll join us in reading it! 🥳

I’m hugely honoured to have been shortlisted for the 2025 #CWprize ! Congratulations to my all my fellow shortlisted writers. Find out more here: commonwealthfoundation.com/short-story-...

Very honoured to be one of the 25 shortlisted for this years 2025 #CWprize out of nearly 8000 entries. Congratulations to everyone else on the list @cwfcreatives.bsky.social @commonwealthorg.bsky.social

Commonwealth Short Story Prize - Commonwealth Foundation The Commonwealth Short Story Prize is awarded for the best piece of unpublished short fiction (2,000–5,000 words). The competition is free to enter and open to any citizen of a Commonwealth country wh...

I've been shortlisted by the #CWprize before. Alas, not this time!

However, I've been longlisted for the 2025 #CWprize after 7,920 writers entered. Well done to all who took part! Can’t wait to read the shortlist on 15 April. @cwfcreatives commonwealthfoundation.com/short-story-...

Commonwealth Short Story Prize - Commonwealth Foundation The Commonwealth Short Story Prize is awarded for the best piece of unpublished short fiction (2,000–5,000 words). The competition is free to enter and open to any citizen of a Commonwealth country wh...

Yoooo, I got longlisted for the 2025 Commonwealth Short Story Prize! It’s one of those rejection letters that feels like a win. To think I made the top 201 stories out of 7,920 (2.5%)! Keen to discover the shortlist soon! #CWprize commonwealthfoundation.com/short-story-...

Turns out *last year's* #CWprize longlisted title was also my first pro-market sale! You can read(/listen) to CHILDREN OF EARTH🦶🗑️ now on Fantasy Magazine (below)

*AND* I, uh, may have jumped the gun & already found a home for *this year's* longlisted title, THE PATRON SAINT OF FLATLINERS🐶, too👀

Commonwealth Short Story Prize - Commonwealth Foundation The Commonwealth Short Story Prize is awarded for the best piece of unpublished short fiction (2,000–5,000 words). The competition is free to enter and open to any citizen of a Commonwealth country wh...

~1yr later & I just made the Commonwealth Short Story Prize longlist *again*?!! 🎉

(Top 3% of a record 7k+ submissions!🔥)

Congrats to my #CWprize longlisted peers & the truly stunning 2024 cohort of shortlisted folks linked below!

Bonus: free story(x2) in 🧵🖤