The Royal Society of Literature is delighted to announce that the submissions for the thirteenth V.S. Pritchett Memorial Prize are now open.
This prize for the best unpublished short story of the year was founded by the RSL at the beginning of the new millennium to commemorate the centenary of an author widely regarded as the finest English short-story writer of the 20th century, and to preserve a tradition encompassing Pritchett’s warmth of feeling and mastery of narrative.
There is a prize of £1,000, and the winning entry will be published in Prospect and the RSL Review. In addition to this, there will be an opportunity to appear at an RSL event with established short story writers in autumn 2012.
The judges this year are Jane Gardam, Aamer Hussein and Penelope Lively.
The closing date for entries is 29th June 2012.
David K. Nouvel
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