Maria Jotuni short story prize

The Maria Jotuni short story prize is a biennial literary award for Finnish-language short stories, awarded by the Finnish Literature Society with support from the Kone Foundation. The prize aims to strengthen appreciation of the short story form and to highlight the best new Finnish-language short stories. The first award of this edition is to be presented in December 2026 and carries a monetary prize of 25,000 euros.

Monetary prize of 25,000 euros; winner announced at an award ceremony.

Authors and publishers could propose published Finnish-language short stories that were published between 2024-01-01 and 2025-12-31.

Authors and publishers may propose published Finnish-language short stories; a jury selects finalists and a named judge chooses the winner.