Don’t miss the opportunity to submit to this year’s Sunday Times EFG Private Bank Short Story Award, the world’s most valuable short story prize offering £30,000 for a single story. The submission deadline is 1pm on Saturday 30 October 2010.
The judges are looking for a superlative story of 6,000 words or under from a fiction author who has had work published in Britain or Ireland. The winner will receive £30,000, and the five shortlisted writers will receive £500 each, as well as having the chance to appear in The Sunday Times Magazine and online at http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk./
This year’s judges are novelist, screenwriter and broadcaster Melvyn Bragg, columnist and broadcaster Daisy Waugh and writer and journalist Will Self, joined by award-winning author AS Byatt and Andrew Holgate, literary editor of The Sunday Times. The non-voting chair of Judges is Matthew Evans, Chairman of EFG Private Bank.
For full details of eligibility and how to submit, please visit the Sunday Times website or The Booktrust’s website and download the terms and conditions and an entry form: www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/shortstoryaward OR
http://www.booktrust.org.uk/Prizes-and-awards/Sunday-Times-EFG-Private-Bank-Award
The award, launched by award founder and director Cathy Galvin, builds on the success of the innovative short fiction slot she introduced to the magazine as deputy editor in 2008 and reflects The Sunday Times's support for outstanding writing.In the inaugural year there were more than 1,000 submissions, and the winner was New Zealand writer CK Stead. Keep up to date with the award via Twitter http://twitter.com/ShortStoryAward and Facebook, http://bit.ly/bO3HoN
It’s also possible to follow news on the award via the Sunday Times Fast Fiction blog: thesundaytimes.co.uk/fastfiction
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