Oct 19, 2016 | Joe Melia
The 2017 Bristol Short Story Prize 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 The competition is open to all writers around the world whether published or unpublished, UK or non-UK based. 20 stories will be shortlisted and published in Bristol Short Story Prize Anthology Volume 10. The winner and 2 runners up will be selected from the shortlist…
Oct 12, 2016 | Joe Melia
We announced the winner of the 2016 Bristol Short Story Prize on Saturday – congratulations to Stefanie Seddon who received first prize for her brilliant story, Kãkahu, in the wonderful surroundings of Bristol Central Library’s Reading Room. Tania Hershman, chair of this year’s judging panel, said of Stefanie’s winning story: “Kãkahu is a poignant, magical…
Oct 02, 2016 | Joe Melia
Each year we run a cover design project with the final year students on the Illustration degree course at the University of the West of England (UWE) here in Bristol. We select one of the designs for our anthology cover. The submissions never fail to really impress us with their originality and inventiveness – we…
Sep 28, 2016 | Joe Melia
Following on from yesterday’s post here are the 10 brilliant writers who complete this year’s shortlist, all in the running for the 2016 Bristol Short Story Prize. The winning writer and story will be announced at our annual awards ceremony in Bristol on October 8th. Sally Jubb lives in North Yorkshire. Since receiving The Andrea…
Sep 27, 2016 | Joe Melia
With just 11 days to go until this year’s awards ceremony it is a great pleasure to introduce the 20 wonderful writers in the running for this year’s first prize. Here are 10 of the shortlisted writers (listed A-Z by writer’s name) – we’ll introduce the remaining 10 tomorrow. Vimi Bajaj is a writer living…
Jul 27, 2016 | Joe Melia
It is with great pleasure that we announce the shortlist for the 2016 Bristol Short Story Prize. The 20 stories on the shortlist will all be published in the 9th Bristol Short Story Prize Anthology and are in the running for the £1,000 first prize. We’d like to pay tribute to our wonderful panel of…
Jul 13, 2016 | Joe Melia
We are delighted to announce the 40 stories and writers selected for the 2016 Bristol Short Story Prize longlist. We received a total of 2,160 entries and, once again, feel very fortunate to have been sent so many wonderful stories. It has been inspiring to see the vast number of styles, themes, structures, voices, characters,…
Jul 04, 2016 | Joe Melia
We have more exciting publication news to report. Pigeon, Alys Conran’s debut novel, was published last month by Parthian. The Wales Arts Review calls it “heart wrenching” and “thoroughly engaging”. It was simulataneously published in English and Welsh (translated by Sian Northey) and was the Welsh Book Council’s English-language Book of the Month for June.…
May 17, 2016 | Joe Melia
Congratulations to our 2015 winner, Brent van Staalduinen, on the publication of his debut novel last month. Saints, Unexpected has been published by Canadian publisher Invisible Publishing and was launched in Brent’s home town of Hamilton, Ontario. We wish Brent every success with the novel and hope it will be published in more countries very…
Mar 16, 2016 | Joe Melia
Many congratulations to Richard Fifield whose debut novel, The Flood Girls, was published last month by Simon and Schuster in the U.S.. The book has been receiving great reviews from bloggers, readers and the press. Kirkus Reviews calls it a “lovable chronicle of small-town insanity” and Publishers Weekly says it is an “excellent fiction debut…hilarious…
Feb 26, 2016 | Joe Melia
Joanna Campbell’s debut short story collection, When Planets Slip Their Tracks, has been published by Ink Tears. This is the latest in a succession of recent achievements by Joanna, including the publication of her debut novel, Taking Down the Lion (Brick Lane Publishing), last year and her triumphant winning of the 2015 London Short Story…
Jan 29, 2016 | Joe Melia
Many congratulations to Danielle McLaughlin, whose debut collection of short stories, Dinosaurs on Other Planets (John Murray), was published earlier this month in the UK and has been receiving widespread acclaim, just as it did when it was first published in Ireland by The Stinging Fly last year. Here are some of the great reviews…
Jan 19, 2016 | Joe Melia
We’re thrilled to have another fantastic judging panel for this year’s Bristol Short Story Prize. The panel will be chaired by the brilliant Tania Hershman. Tania is the author of two celebrated short story collections, The White Road and Other Stories (Salt, 2008), which was commended by the judges of the 2009 Orange Award for…
Dec 04, 2015 | Joe Melia
In the fifth and final of our Best Short Stories of 2015 features there are many more great collections to celebrate. A huge thank you to all those who contributed and we hope you enjoy discovering new writers and stories as much as we have. Helen Dunmore (Award-winning, celebrated writer of short stories, poetry, novels…
Dec 03, 2015 | Joe Melia
Our 2015 short story celebration continues……. Chioma Okereke (Writer of fiction and poetry, Chioma’s debut novel, Bitter Leaf (Virago), was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize in 2011 – Africa Best First Book. She was a runner up in the 2013 Costa Short Story Award) While the publishing industry is on its quest for what…
