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Bristol Short Story Prize closing date looms
The Bristol Short Story Prize annual open writing competition, founded by the editors of the Bristol Review of Books magazine, has been running for nine years and is established as one of the UK’s most respected writing prizes.The entry deadline for the 2016 competition is April 30 2016. Entries must be no more than 4,000 words and can be made online at www.bristolprize.co.uk. There is an entry fee of £8 per story.
Prize co-ordinator Joe Melia said: “Once again we are receiving entries from all over the world but, as always, there are a good number of entries from the Bristol area which is pleasing. If you have a short story there’s still time to enter. But hurry!”
Twenty stories will be shortlisted before the final winner is chosen. All 20 writers shortlisted will be published in the Bristol Short Story Prize Anthology Volume 9, published in October 2016 and will receive a minimum of £100. The winner will receive £1,000, several winners of the Prize have subsequently been signed by literary agents. Bristol based Tangent Books are publishing the anthology.
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This year’s judging panel is chaired by Tania Hershman, notable short story writer and author. Tania will be joined by writers Niven Govinden, Simon Key, owner of the renowned London bookstore Big Green Bookshop, and Juliet Pickering, a literary agent at Blake Friedmann.
For further details please visit www.bristolprize.co.uk.
Copies of the anthology will be available from www.tangentbooks.co.uk.
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