It's back! The Sunday Times EFG Private Bank Short Story Award is now open for entries for 2012.
£30,000 first prize! (Wasn't it a mere £25,000 in previous years?)
Stories may be previously unpublished, or first published/scheduled for publication after 1 January 2011.
All entries must be under 6,000 words and entirely original.
Closing date: 28th October.
And - yipee! - this year you can enter online. Thank God for that, says I.
More here.
9 comments:
Thanks for that reminder. It'll get me typing at least, as there's two months to go.6,000 words is nearer to novella-territory surely? I can only do the standard 2,500 these days!
(Getting ready for the Bill Naughton too, September)
I'm the same, Pat. I long to write a rambling short story but am stuck, like you, in a certain word count groove. I wonder why that is?
Thanks for this too... I think it was £30k last year but they've doubled the finalists to £1k each which is nice. Or will be nice, for them, whoever they are! (Pat, 6000 seems like a novel to me...!)
Nice new blog look, like the pink, N!
It's fabulous money, Tania. 1k would do me!!
I think there's something wrong with me, but the size of that prize money just cripples my creativity!
Also I only seem able to do short or very very long lately.
Ooooh, very long sounds good :)
I can never write for a comp. My best hope is to have something done a while that I can polish. I find it impossible to be even slightly objective about new work. I tend to love it for its freshness but doubt it has any merits.
Thanks for the reminder! Love your blog-page. I'm at medea999.Wordpress.com but it ain't as snazzy!!
Thanks for the reminder Nuala! I almost forgot about it. Liked your new page(s) too. Very boudour-ish.
Mary - no problem. I've been over to yours. Great blog :)
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