Serendipity Institute for Black Arts and Heritage and Writing East Midlands are looking for creative writers from the African, African Caribbean and Latin American Diaspora to submit short stories for the 2025 edition of BlackInk Writing Competition.
The initiative seeks to showcase new short fiction; applicants are invited to submit stories of up to 2,000 words for consideration. One winner and one runner up will be published in Issue 6 of BlackInk for Black History Month in October 2025.
This year, BlackInk Issue 6 is focusing on the theme Intersection: Diasporic Dialogues. The judges are particularly interested in stories that encompass this theme.
To apply for this competition applicants should:
• Write a short story addressing the theme Intersection: Diasporic Dialogues.
• Complete the application form including a short biography.
• Submit a finished short story, a maximum of 2,000 words. The story should be fiction, written as prose, previously unpublished and the applicant’s own original idea.
