We’re delighted to welcome DNA magazine to our Lit Mags list: “devoted to the craft of detailing personal memories. We’re looking for 300-500 word non-fiction stories about real lives – of people, objects or places.” Check them out!

Chroma magazine is calling for submissions around the colour red for its first issue. Spelk is open for submissions of flash fiction until March 12th and England’s Future History wants your end-of-the-world stories by March 31st. Fictive Dream would like your stories, and Tales From The Forest has a call for submissions for Issue #5. Cornish Short Stories wants your stories set in Cornwall for an anthology to be published in 2018. and Number Eleven’s Issue 9 is now live.

Stroud Short Stories is open to submissions, deadline April 22nd, for their 21st May event in Stroud. Story Sunday is holding its next event on March 19th, in Bristol. Smut Slam continues its UK tour in March.

Deadline is today (March 13th) for the SOURCE magazine Words X Images competition! Submit your flashes to the National Flash Fiction Day MicroFiction competition by March 31st and to the NFFD anthology by April 14th.

The Short Fiction Prize 2017 closes  on March 31st. The 2017 Crediton Short Story Competition is now accepting entries, deadline 20 April, and you have until April 26th to enter the Shooter short story competition. Win a place on the Swanwick Summer School in August.

 Try a free taster of the Writers’ HQ short story course. The London Lit Lab is running a2-day course in London 8-9 April entitled “Write and Edit a Short Story In A Weekend“.