2011 Unbound Press Short Story Award
Closing Date: March 1, 2011
Winning and short-listed entries notified no later thanMarch 31, 2011+++
Winning and short-listed entries notified no later thanMarch 31, 2011+++
1st Prize – £250, publication, 1 free copy of annual print anthology
2nd Prize – £125, publication, 1 free copy of annual print anthology
3rd Prize – £50, publication, 1 free copy of annual print anthology
Shortlisted Entries* – publication, 1 free copy of annual print anthology
2nd Prize – £125, publication, 1 free copy of annual print anthology
3rd Prize – £50, publication, 1 free copy of annual print anthology
Shortlisted Entries* – publication, 1 free copy of annual print anthology
Entry fee £5
* Number of entries shortlisted will be determined by the quality of submissions
Guest Judge: Zoë Strachan
Photograph Taken by Ray Deng
Zoë Strachan is the author of Negative Space and Spin Cycle (both published by Picador). The former won a Betty Trask Award and was shortlisted for the Saltire First Book of the Year Award. Zoë also writes short stories, essays, journalism and drama. Her work has been broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and Radio 3. She has received two writer’s bursaries from the Scottish Arts Council, a Hawthornden Fellowship and was UNESCO City of Literature writer-in-residence at the National Museum of Scotland. In 2008 she was awarded a Hermann Kesten Stipendium and spent time in Nuremberg, and in 2009 she received a Robert Louis Stevenson Fellowship which took her to France to write.
Zoë lives in Glasgow where she teaches part time on the prestigious Creative Writing programme at the University of Glasgow. She has just completed her third novel, Ever Fallen in Love?.
You can find out more at http://trk.cp20.com/Tracking/t.c?Hppg-EzFo-eyWhe6
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