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2014 Bristol Short Story Prize

Information
Closing date: 
30 April 2014
Entry: 
Open to all published and unpublished writers, UK and non-UK based, over 16 years of age Entry fee £8 per short story
Prize: 
1st £1000 plus £150 Waterstone’s gift card + 19 other prizes

The Bristol Short Story Prize aims to publish great short stories and promote the stories and writers as much as possible
2014 Bristol Short Story Prize is open to all published and unpublished writers, UK and non-UK based, over 16 years of age.

Stories can be on any theme or subject and entry can be made online via the website or by post. Entries must be previously unpublished with a maximum length of 4,000 words (There is no minimum).

The closing date for entries is April 30th 2014.

Prizes

1st £1000 plus £150 Waterstone's gift card
2nd £700 plus £100 Waterstone's gift card
3rd £400 plus £100 Waterstone's gift card

17 further prizes of £100 will be presented to the writers whose stories appear on the shortlist. All 20 shortlisted writers will have their stories published in the Bristol Short Story Prize Anthology Volume 7.

The 20 shortlisted writers will be invited to an awards ceremony in Bristol in October 2014 when the winners will be announced and the anthology launched.

Judging panel

Sara Davies (writer, former Radio 4 producer) Rowan Lawton (literary agent at Furniss Lawton),
Sanjida O'Connell (writer and TV presenter) and Nikesh Shukla (author, performer and journalist)

For more information and to send your work

Closing date: 
30 April 2014
Entry: 
Open to all published and unpublished writers, UK and non-UK based, over 16 years of age Entry fee £8 per short story
Prize: 
1st £1000 plus £150 Waterstone’s gift card + 19 other prizes