Scratch A4 Summer '26 - Submissions Open Today!

Submissions are now open for the Summer ‘26 edition of Scratch A4!

Enter your brilliant < 1000 word story before 25 April - to be in with a chance to be read at our Summer '26 event in London on Saturday 6 June.

For information on how to enter and an entrance ticket, submit your story here!

The Judges are:

Gurnaik Johal - Winner of the Somerset Maugham Award and shortlisted for the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award.

Emily Fish - Editor at Hutchinson Heinemann, an imprint of Penguin Random House.

Tom Conaghan - Publisher at Scratch Books.

Scratch A4 Summer '26 will be held in Soho on the evening of Saturday 6th June.

Looking for inspiration? Read the stunning shortlisted pieces from our previous events here...