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 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…
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 17, 2017 | Joe Melia
We’ve been fortunate to have published two of Kate Brown’s short stories: Two Girls Under an Apple Tree shortlisted in 2010, and last year’s 3rd prize winning story, Making Fists. Kate’s debut novel, The Women of Versailles, was published a few weeks ago by Seren Books. Imogen Cheetham found out more about the novel and…
Jul 11, 2017 | Joe Melia
Our 2014 winner, Mahsuda Snaith, has just had her first novel published by Transworld. The Things We Thought We Knew is an “original and affecting coming-of-age novel” says The Observer and Francesca Brown in Stylist magazine says it’s “A break out book from an incredibly talented debut writer”. Alice Jones caught up with Mahsuda to…
Jul 03, 2017 | Joe Melia
Congratulations to Anne Corlett, who won 3rd prize in our 2013 competition, on the publication of her first novel, The Space Between the Stars. Alice Jones finds out more about the novel and Anne’s writing. Your brilliant story Why I Waited, received third prize in our 2013 competition. Do you have a preference for writing…
Jun 13, 2017 | Joe Melia
Congratulations to Ethel Rohan whose debut novel, The Weight of Him, has just been published by Atlantic Books. The novel has received glowing reviews: the writer, Robert Olen Butler says it is an “achingly sad, achingly lovely novel that speaks to the essential core of our shared human experience” and Eowyn Ivey, author of the…
Apr 03, 2017 | Joe Melia
Entry Dealine Approaching! There are just over 4 weeks left to enter the 2017 Bristol Short Story Prize. 20 stories will be shortlisted and published in the 10th Bristol Short Story Prize anthology. The winnner and 2 runners up will be chosen from the shortlist. First prize is £1,000, 2nd prize is £700, and 3rd…
Mar 08, 2017 | Joe Melia
One of our main aims and one of the main reasons we founded the Bristol Short Story Prize is to encourage, inspire and support writers. In the 9 years since we began, many writers we have published have gone on to publish short story collections, novels and non-fiction titles, and it is always a joy…
Jan 09, 2017 | Joe Melia
As well as being an award winning short story writer, Angela Readman is a brilliant poet. Her third poetry collection, The Book of Tides, was published by Nine Arches Press at the end of last year. Four poems from the collection are available to read on the Nine Arches Press website. There is also a…
Nov 24, 2016 | Joe Melia
Congratulations to Melanie Whipman whose debut collection of short stories, Llama Sutra, has been published by InkTears. As the InkTears website says: “These sharply imagined tales merge the grotesque and the tragic with humour and poignancy, evoking life’s diversity and unpredictability with style and control.” There is a discount of £5 on offer when ordering…
