The ABR Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize [1] is an annual short fiction competition run by the Australian Book Review . The Prize, with total prize money of AU$12,500 and "generating over a thousand new stories each year", [2] is "hotly contested" [3] and considered "one of Australia's most lucrative prizes for an original short story" [4] on the Australian literary calendar. [5]
The Prize was originally known as the ABR Short Story Competition [6] when it was established in 2010; however, the ABR renamed the award "in honour of Elizabeth Jolley, and first awarded it under its new name, the ABR Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize, in 2011". [6]
The Prize accepts submissions from authors worldwide, however stories must be by a single author and written in English.