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2015 Bristol Short Story Prize launched
The 2015 Bristol Short Story Prize is officially launched as of 2pm today. Entries need to be in by April 30, 2015 for this competition which has a prize of £1000 for the winning entry and £100 for each entry published in the anthology.
Now in its 8th year, the Bristol-based competition has established itself as one of the UK’s most prestigious open writing competitions, “one of the most important short story prizes in the country” according to Scott Pack, publisher at HarperCollins imprint The Friday Project.
A shortlist of 20 stories will be selected and published in the Bristol Short Story Prize Anthology Volume 8 and the winning story will be announced at the awards ceremony in October 2015.
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The 2015 judging panel will once again be chaired by writer and former Radio 4 producer, Sara Davies. Sara will be joined on the panel by Literary Agent, Rowan Lawton, writer and TV presenter, Sanjida O’Connell, and author, performer and journalist, Nikesh Shukla.
Sara says: “I’m hoping to find some writing that makes me look at the world differently, or unexpectedly, and that may be because of an imaginative story, or because of the imaginative way it’s told. I’m hoping to find writers who love language, and love using it in inventive ways. Most of all I’m planning to enjoy myself!”
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