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TMB Short Story Contest

A literary competition that has become a real classic among the awards held on the occasion of Barcelona.

Since 2007, the event has called upon the people of Barcelona and its metropolitan area to put their talent and creativity to the test by writing a short story, which can be either fiction or non-fiction, inspired by any of TMB’s modes of public transport.
 
Apart from stimulating ingenuity and encouraging the habit of reading, the competition aims to foster a sense of public-spiritedness and the values of respect and civic harmony on public transport. 
       

Categories

Relats Curts is divided into the following formats and categories:

 
  • Freestyle story: This category allows you to write a short story, comprising 3,500 characters, inspired by transport or a scenario related to TMB, civic responsibility or coexistence on transport. 
  • Tweet-story: Use a tweet of up to 280 characters to tell a brief story involving transport or a scenario related to TMB, the legend of Sant Jordi, civic responsibility or coexistence on transport.
  • School story: In this category children and young, in different age groups, can let their imaginations run wild by writing a short story of up to 3,500 characters. There is also a price for the most motivating teacher.
  • Staff story:  is only open to the employees of any of the TMB Group’s companies. 
 

The Short Story Contest website

If you like writing, the Short Story Contest website is the ideal place to share your literary works.  Already chosen which category you’d like to compete in? What are you waiting for? You could be a prize-winner! Log on and catch up on all the latest news. See you there!

  • The winners, the members of the jury and the sponsors of the 2026 edition.

Partners in previous editions

Festival Grec de Barcelona

Barcelona’s Festival Grec is the city’s main performing arts event and features theatre, dance music and circus. The festival has been running for many years and in 2019 reached its forty-third edition. Over all this time, the Grec has become not only Barcelona’s main cultural attraction in the summer months but also a landmark on the European festival calendar.

 

Ateneu Barcelonès Writing School

The Ateneu Barcelonès School (CA) is a training center that is open to anyone who wants to learn the tools and techniques of the writing profession. Its aim is to introduce the art and trade of the written word to lovers of language and literature who would like to turn their passion into a profession, and to explore the pleasure of reading and writing in greater depth, all through a system of personalized attention.

 

Llibre Solidari Association

The Llibre Solidari Association is a non-profit organization that promotes a culture of sustainability and solidarity in the Catalan region. Llibre Solidari strives to get people involved in living more sustainably with the environment through the reuse of second-hand products (books, CDs, DVDs, vinyl records and clothing). Llibre Solidari promotes activities around the world related to books and literature with a view to becoming a cultural reference in Catalonia.

 

Plataforma Editorial

Plataforma Editorial (ES) is an independent publishing house whose projects embrace new media, content, friends, authors, readers and booksellers; a place where everyone counts and has their space. The driving force is enthusiasm, energy, authenticity and a love of publishing. Their catalogue features some of the best titles on the most important current affairs related to education, health and medicine, personal development, meditation and mindfulness, sport and business, as well as the most unique and moving testimonials.

 

Filmax Gran Via multiplex

The Filmax Gran Via multiplex (ES) is part of the Filmax Group, a company with a Spanish shareholding and an international profile that is dedicated to the creation, production, post-production, distribution and screening of audiovisual content for the entertainment industry. Filmax believes in magical, exciting, thought-provoking and entertaining films.

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