Oct 04, 2018 | Joe Melia
Following on from yesterday’s post, here are the other 10 brilliant writers who are in the running for this year’s first prize. We will be announcing our winning writer and story, and publishing our brilliant new anthology a week on Saturday. The anthology is available to pre-order here. Martin Pevsner is a writer of novels…
Oct 03, 2018 | Joe Melia
With just 10 days to go until we announce the winner of the 2018 Bristol Short Story Prize and publish out 11th anthology, we thought it was high time we let you know a bit more about the 20 brilliant writers who are in the running for this year’s first prize. Here are 10 of…
Sep 21, 2018 | Joe Melia
Each year we run an anthology cover design project with final year Illustration degree students at The University of West England in Bristol. We select one of the designs for our annual anthology, and we are always blown away by the quality and ingenuity of the work submitted by the students. The design we have…
Sep 12, 2018 | Joe Melia
Huge congratulations to Jane Healey who has secured a significant publishing deal for her debut novel The Animals at Lockwood Manor through her agent, Hayley Steed, at the Madeline Milburn Literary Agency. Major Pan Macmillan imprint, Mantle, bought Jane’s gothic romance in a heated seven-way auction. US rights have been bought by Helen Atsma at…
Jul 25, 2018 | Joe Melia
We’re delighted to reveal the 20 stories and writers who have been selected for the 2018 Bristol Short Story Prize shortlist. The writers are all in the running for the £1,000 1st prize and will have their stories published in our 11th anthology. The anthology will be published, and the winning writer and story announced…
Jul 20, 2018 | Joe Melia
Congratulations to Emma Timpany whose novella, Travelling in the Dark, has just been published by Fairlight Books. From the publisher’s website: “Set in the wild, beautiful and unreliable landscape of southern New Zealand, Emma Timpany’s novella is an evocative story of a woman coming to terms with her past.” The book has had some excellent…
Jul 11, 2018 | Joe Melia
We’re thrilled to say that all judging decisions for the 2018 Bristol Short Story Prize have been made and we can now reveal the 40 brilliant stories that have been selected for this year’s longlist. Our readers have had such a fascinating and rewarding time reading the 2,190 entries. A huge thank you to everyone who…
Jun 20, 2018 | Joe Melia
Congratulations to Martin Nathan whose debut novel, A Place of Safety, has just been published by Salt Publishing. From Salt’s website: “A boy exiles himself from his family through a shocking act of violence. Years later, having built a new life he returns to try to understand his past. He attempts to reconcile with his…
Mar 27, 2018 | Joe Melia
Writer Polly Ho-Yen talks to us about her work and short stories in the latest of our interviews with this year’s judging panel. She is the acclaimed author of three novels one of which, Boy in the Tower, was nominated for the Carnegie Medal and shortlisted for the Blue Peter Book Award and the Waterstones…
Mar 06, 2018 | Joe Melia
Congratulations to Magdalena McGuire whose debut novel Home is Nearby has recently been published by Impress Books. Magdalena won 3rd prize in the 2015 Bristol Short Story Prize for her story Birthday Bones, which was published in our 8th anthology. Magdalena was born in Poland, and grew up in Australia. She lives in Melbourne and…
Jan 23, 2018 | Joe Melia
In the second of a series of interviews with this year’s judging panel, we’re delighted to welcome Lucy Cowie to the website. Lucy started her publishing career at the literary agency LAW and Penguin Random House. Since relocating to the West Country she has been a freelance editor for more than a decade, working with…
Jan 09, 2018 | Joe Melia
Based in Bristol and New York, our judging panel chair for 2018, Kate Johnson, is a literary agent at New York’s Wolf Literary Services. She represents a range of fiction and nonfiction writers including short story writers Sam Allingham, Tania Hershman, Bryan Hurt, Bonnie Nadzam, Hasanthika Sirisena and Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi. We took…
Dec 21, 2017 | Joe Melia
Back in 2009, Australian-based writer Elizabeth Jane Corbett won the Bristol Short Story Prize for her brilliant story Beyond the Blackout Curtain. And it’s great to see that Elizabeth’s debut novel, The Tides Between, has recently been published. We took the opportunity to find out more about the novel and Elizabeth’s writing. When did you…
Dec 15, 2017 | Joe Melia
Congratulations to our recently-crowned 2017 winner, Dima Alzayat, who has been signed by literary agent Juliet Pickering of the prestigious Blake Friedmann agency. Juliet, who was on this year’s judging panel, says of Dima’s writing: “It sounds really clichéd to say, but from the very first time I read Ghusl (Dima’s winning story), I wanted…
Dec 12, 2017 | Joe Melia
Congratulations to Fiona Mitchell whose debut novel, The Maid’s Room, has just been published by Hodder & Stoughton. Fiona has been shortlisted three times for the Bristol Short Story Prize so we have been aware of her writing talent for some time! We took the opportunity to find out more about the novel and Fiona’s…
