This is rather like a recently announced
Spectator comp (except that this one doesn't ask for verse entries). I'm sure the two magazines have duplicated one another like this on more than one occasion in the past, and that somebody with a longer memory than mine can recall specific examples.
No 4260
Set by Leonora Casement
We would like you to think up new fables, complete with a moral, in any modern setting – during the recession, the phone-hacking scandal, and so on.
Max 150 words by 17 January
comp@newstatesman.co.uk