PUB: Short Story Prize 2012

The Homestart Bridgwater

Short Story Prize 2012


You are invited to enter our 2012 competition by sending your stories, gaining the chance to win one of the prizes kindly donated by our sponsors - and helping a worthwhile charity. 

 

 

First Prize       £500

Second            £200

Third              £100

Entry Fee £7 per story (100% going to the Charity’s work)

Closing Date 1st February 2012

You can make your entries either online or

by post by downloading and printing the postal entry form

 

Judging by Award winning novelist

Patricia Ferguson

We are hugely grateful to Patricia Ferguson for agreeing to adjudicate the Bridgwater Home-Start 2012 Prize.

Patricia is a prize-winning novelist whose books and short stories have achieved recognition with the Betty Trask Prize; the Somerset-Maugham Award; and (twice) nomination for the Orange Prize.  She was recently one of the judges for the Bristol Short Story Competition.

Patricia will undertake the judging from a shortlist of ten stories selected by a team of experienced readers.  A Trustee of the Charity will oversee the preliminary assessment of entries and the secure filing and recording of authors’ details.

 The winners will be announced in a ceremony at Bridgwater Arts Centre on Saturday 24th March 2012.  Shortlisted authors will be notified in advance.  Results and (with permission from the authors) the prizewinning stories will be published on the website.

Donations

Thanks to the generosity of sponsors and of all the volunteers who will be running this competition (including Patricia Ferguson,  who has waived any payment for her professional services),  the whole of  your entry fee will be devoted to the Charity’s work for families in Bridgwater and the surrounding rural communities.

As a writer entering the competition, you might like to consider topping up your entry charge with a further donation to Homestart's funds.

 

 

You can make your entries either online or

by post by downloading and printing the postal entry form

Please help us publicise the event by downloading and printing the Homestart Bridgwater Short Story Prize 2012 poster.

via homestart-bridgwater.org.uk