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…
Oct 30, 2017 | Joe Melia
We are delighted to announce that the 2018 Bristol Short Story Prize , in association with Tangent Books, is open for entries. The competition is open to all writers around the world whether published or unpublished, UK or non-UK based. 20 stories will be shortlisted and published in Bristol Short Story Prize Anthology Volume 11.…
Oct 20, 2017 | Joe Melia
The 2017 Bristol Short Story Prize has been won by Manchester-based writer, Dima Alzayat. Dima was announced as the winner at an awards ceremony held in Bristol Central Library last Saturday. We took the opportunity of finding out more about Dima’s very powerful and moving winning story, Ghusl, her writing, influences and what this very…
Oct 03, 2017 | Joe Melia
Following on from yesterday’s post, here are the other 10 fantastic 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: James Kennedy was born and raised in London and read PPE at Oxford.…
Oct 02, 2017 | Joe Melia
With just 12 days to go until we announce the winner of the 2017 Bristol Short Story Prize 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 the writers – we’ll introduce…
Sep 18, 2017 | Joe Melia
There are just under 4 weeks to go until our 2017 awards ceremony. As well as announcing the winning story and writer we will also be unveiling this year’s anthology, published by Tangent Books. The cover was designed by recent University of the West of England Illustration degree course graduate, Harry Sussams. Harry submitted…
Aug 16, 2017 | Joe Melia
Congratulations to Kasia Jaronczyk whose debut short story collection, Lemons, was published in Canada earlier this year. Imogen Cheetham found out more about the collection. How did the short story that you submitted to us for the 2016 Bristol Short Story Prize become an entire collection? Did it already exist when you were shortlisted, or…
Jul 31, 2017 | Joe Melia
To celebrate the announcement of our 2017 shortlist we are running a special offer on Kindle versions of our anthologies. From now until our awards ceremony on October 14th all our Kindle anthologies are available for only 0.99p (UK). The offer applies worldwide. (eg. amazon.com = $1.30, in India amazon.in = 83INR, in Canada amazon.ca…
Jul 26, 2017 | Joe Melia
What a pleasure it is to announce the 20 stories and writers who have been selected for the 2017 Bristol Short Story Prize shortlist. The writers are all in the running for the £1,000 1st prize and all will have their stories published in our 10th anthology. The anthology will be published, and the winning…
