The short story competition starts today. The theme of your story need not reference Wales in any way. You may submit your entry in either Welsh or English.  Basically you will need to write a short story between 1000 and 3000 words in length and submit it in accordance with the rules for site members or non-site members outlined below. Accompanying graphics ARE permitted but your entry will be judged solely on its literary merit. There is a US150 dollars (approximately 100GBP ) prize for the winner. and  US100 dollars  ( approximately 65GBP ) for the runner up. The final submission date is Sept 15th 2012 . We are immensely proud and pleased to announce that for the fourth consecutive year, author Lloyd Jones will judge the entries in the West Coast Eisteddfod Online Short Story competition. Lloyd is the author of two novels, 'Mr Vogel' and 'Mr Cassini' and a collection of short stories - 'My First Colouring Book' . He has also written the extremely popular Welsh language novel - 'Y Dwr' .  You may submit up to four entries.

This is an exciting opportunity for aspiring short story writers to achieve recognition and publication and we would like to repeat that there are NO registration fees.

READ MORE AND SUBMIT YOUR ENTRIES HERE