Call For Submissions: InterAct Short Story Competition 2024

Applications for InterAct Stroke Support‘s Short Story Competition are now open!

InterAct hosts the Short Story Competition every two years in honour of our beloved patron, the late novelist Ruth Rendell.

The winner of the competition will be commissioned to write four further stories for InterAct Stroke Support over the course of one year, and will receive £1,000 in payment. The winner will be chosen by Head Judge Dame Margaret Drabble in an Awards Ceremony in 2024.

Competition Notes:

• The story can be any genre but must be appropriate for a sensitive hospital setting

• The story must be no more than 1000 words

• The rest is up to you!

Closing date: 21st December 2023

For entries and further T&Cs please visit: www.interactstrokesupport.org/ssc

About InterAct Stroke Support

It’s widely understood that social interaction assists recovery after stroke. InterAct Stroke Support uses experienced actors to deliver regular one to one reading sessions, harnessing the power of storytelling to help stroke survivors develop language, stimulate memory, and combat isolation.

We offer in person, and virtual readings. ​InterAct’s 160 professional actors read in 20 hospitals and over 50 stroke clubs across the United Kingdom as well as conducting remote ‘InterAct at Home’ sessions via telephone or video call.

Please contact info@interactstroke.org with any queries about the competition or our work more broadly