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Sunday Times EFG Private Bank Short Story Award 2010

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Closing date: 
30 November 2009
Entry: 
Open only to writers previously published in the UK and Ireland (not self-published or published online)
Prize: 
First prize £25,000

The Sunday Times EFG Private Bank Short Story Award 2010

New Prize for a short story of not more than 7,000 words

Closing date 30 November 2009

Open only to writers previously published in the UK and Ireland (not self-published or published online)

First prize £25,000

A year on from the Lehman Brothers collapse that launched the global financial meltdown, EFG Private Bank has announced a partnership with the Sunday Times to launch the world’s richest award for an individual short story with a first prize of £25,000 and five prizes of £500 for the runners-up. The Prize builds on the success of the weekly short story section, introduced in the Magazine in November 2008.

The non-voting chairman of the judges is Matthew Evans, who is Chairman of EFG, and the judges are the writers Lynn Barber, AS Byatt, Nick Hornby, Hanif Kureishi, and Sunday Times Literary Editor Andrew Holgate.The award is being administered by Booktrust.

The winner and runners-up will be announced at the Sunday Times Oxford Literary Festival in March 2010.

 

Submission guidelines

 

Closing date: 
30 November 2009
Entry: 
Open only to writers previously published in the UK and Ireland (not self-published or published online)
Prize: 
First prize £25,000