Jane Austen Short Story Award 2009
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Jane Austen Short Story Award 2009
Closing date 31 March 2009
Open to all writers in English who have not had a full-length work of fiction published (unless the print run was less than 1,000 copies).
£10 ($14) entry fee
First prize: £1,000 ($1,400).
Two runners up: £200 ($282) each.
All three finalists will also win a week’s writers’ retreat at Chawton House. Fifteen other shortlisted authors will receive £40 ($56) plus publication in the winners’ anthology.
Chair of the judges is Sarah Waters
Calling all Janeites - the competition that celebrates the bicentenary of Jane Austen’s arrival in the Hampshire village of Chawton – where she spent the most productive years of her literary life.
Chawton House Library is a charity with a unique collection of books focusing on women's writing in English from 1600 to 1830. This specialist collection is set in the home and working estate of Jane Austen's brother. Their intention is to publish the very best short fiction inspired by Jane Austen or Chawton House – a place she knew well.
Chawton House is looking for short stories of 2,000-2,500 words in length. The inspiration for your story can be taken from any theme in Jane Austen’s novels: it might even be a character or a single sentence that sets your creative juices flowing. Or perhaps your imagination will be fired by the Elizabethan mansion, Chawton House, where Jane Austen and her family often gathered, and now houses a rare collection of early women’s writing.
Stories can have a historical or a contemporary setting – anything goes as long as it is well written and you state on the entry form exactly what inspired you to write it.
For more details and to download an entry form
