Welcome to the Bristol Short Story Prize. Please read these Terms and Conditions. If you have any questions about them or any aspect of this website then please don’t hesitate to contact us on enquiries@bristolprize.co.uk. Alternatively, if you prefer to contact us by post, our address is: Bristol Short Story Prize, Unit 5.16, Paintworks, Bath Road, Bristol BS4 3EH where we share an office with leading Bristol publisher Tangent Books. Please email us in the first instance when contacting us.
The office phone number is 0117 972 0645 – please ask to speak to our Co-ordinator, Joe Melia or to Richard Jones or leave a message. Office hours are 10.00 am to 5.00 pm Monday to Friday.
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By using our this website www.bristolprize.co.uk, you indicate that you accept these Terms and that you agree to abide by them.
This website is owned and operated by Bristol Short Story Prize Ltd., registered in England and Wales under registration number 06625768, registered address: 86, Shirehampton Road, Stoke Bishop, Bristol BS9 2DR
Our principal place of business and our correspondence address is as above: Unit 5.16, Paintworks, Bath Road, Bristol BS4 3EH
You can contact us by writing to the correspondence address above, by email enquiries@bristolprize.co.uk or by telephone 0117 9720645.
The copyright to all content on this website is held either by Bristol Short Story Prize Ltd or by the individual authors, and none of the material may be used elsewhere without written permission. For reprint enquiries, please contact us. Access to our website is permitted on a temporary basis, and we reserve the right to withdraw, amend or restrict access to areas of our website, or indeed the whole website, at our discretion. You must not circumvent or bypass, or attempt to circumvent or bypass, any access restriction measures on our website. We will not be liable if, for any reason, our website is unavailable at any time or for any period.
Limitations: This website must not be used for any other purpose than entering our short story competition, ordering our anthologies, reading articles or registering for our newsletters.
It must not be used for any transmitting of illegal or objectionable material, the breaching of any laws including copyright and unauthorised access or disrupting the network or website or causing interference and enjoyment of the site for other users.
Data protection: we process information about you in accordance with our Privacy Policy. By using our website you consent to such processing.
If you are entering the Bristol Short Story Prize please read the rules carefully before submitting an entry or entries to the competition. Again, if you have any questions about these rules then please don’t hesitate to contact us by emailing us at enquiries@bristolprize.co.uk. We confirm receipt of online entry/entries to the Bristol Short Story Prize with an email. If you do not receive a confirmation email, please let us know by email (enquiries@bristolprize.co.uk) and we will confirm receipt of your entry or entries.
We collect and process personal information (name, address, phone number, email address) from you when you enter the Bristol Short Story Prize. We do this so that we can contact you if you are selected for the competition shortlist. We also collect and process contact information (name, address, phone number, email address) when you enter the Bristol Short Story Prize so that we can contact you if there is a problem with you uploaded story – if it cannot be accessed, if the submitted file cannot be opened or if the story is over the maximum word count, for example.
We do not collect or store any credit/debit card or other financial information. When entering the Bristol Short Story Prize, website users’ credit/debit card information and Paypal account information are processed by Paypal for the purposes of entry fee payment. All payments are processed in this way. Paypal have secure payment processes for credit/debit card transactions and for those with Paypal accounts. Paypal ask for your credit/debit card details (card number, expiry date, last 3 digits on the signature strip, cardholder name and contact details ) to process entry fee payment via credit/debit card. Bristol Short Story Prize does not see or have access to these credit/debit card details. Paypal’s privacy policy can be viewed here: https://www.paypal.com/uk/webapps/mpp/ua/privacy-full
Any entrant wishing to withdraw a story from the 2023 Bristol Short Story Prize before the closing date of midnight (BST) April 26th 2023 will receive a full refund, please contact us by emailing us at enquiries@bristolprize.co.uk. We will not be able to refund any withdrawn stories after the closing date of midnight (BST) April 26th 2023.
We aim to acknowledge all anthology orders within 24 hours of receiving the order, and aim to send off all anthology orders within 48 hours of receiving the order 36 hours if the order is placed at the weekend. There is no delivery charge for orders to a UK address, delivery charges outside the UK are displayed at the checkout. Please allow up to five days for a UK order to arrive and up to two weeks for an order outside the UK. If you need to chase up an anthology order, please email us at: enquiries@bristolprize.co.uk
We do not collect or store any credit/debit card or other financial information. When processing a Bristol Short Story Prize anthology payment at the same time as entering the Bristol Short Story Prize, website users’ credit/debit card information and Paypal account information are processed by Paypal for the purposes of anthology payment. Paypal have secure payment processes for credit/debit card transactions and for those with Paypal accounts. Paypal ask for your credit/debit card details (card number, expiry date, last 3 digits on the signature strip, cardholder name and contact details ) to process anthology payment via credit/debit card. Bristol Short Story Prize does not see or have access to these credit/debit card details. Paypal’s privacy policy can be viewed here: https://www.paypal.com/uk/webapps/mpp/ua/privacy-full
At the moment that we inform you that the goods are available (and not before), a contract will be made between you and Bristol Short Story Prize. At any point up until then, we may decline to supply the goods to you without giving any reason.
Any entrant wishing to withdraw a story from the 2023 Bristol Short Story Prize before the closing date of midnight (BST) April 26th 2023 will receive a full refund, please contact us by emailing us at enquiries@bristolprize.co.uk. We will not be able to refund any withdrawn stories after the closing date of midnight (BST) April 26th 2023. Any refunds for withdrawn entries will be refunded to the credit/debit card used in the original transaction via Paypal.
Anthologies purchased via the Bristol Short Story Prize website can be refunded up to one month after purchase. To do this, please e-mail us at enquiries@bristolprize.co.uk. We will credit you with the cost of the refunded or cancelled order including delivery charges within 30 days of the date of your cancellation. Please return the unwanted anthology/anthologies within 30 days of cancellation.The delivery/postage costs of returning a book to us will be at your own expense. This does not include faulty or damaged goods, or goods sent in error. In the case of faulty/damaged goods Bristol Short Story Prize will cover the cost of returning the faulty/damaged anthology or anthologies. If the anthology/anthologies were sent to you in error then Bristol Short Story Prize will also cover your postage costs. Refunds for anthology orders will be refunded to the credit/debit card used in the original transaction via Paypal.
Our website may contain links so that users can easily visit other websites of interest. Bristol Short Story Prize does not have any control over linked websites, therefore Bristol Short Story Prize cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information users provide whilst visiting linked sites.
These Terms and Conditions do not affect your statutory rights.
Bristol Short Story Prize Ltd. Registered in England and Wales, company number 6625768. Registered address : 86, Shirehampton Road, Stoke Bishop, Bristol BS9 2DR
