UK Bridport Prize shortlist annnounced
The Bridport Prize, the UK writing competition open to all nationalities, has announced a shorlist.
Australian and New Zealand writers appearing on the shorlist in each category are:
Poetry shortlist
- Marg Ranger, NZ
- Kate Camp, NZ
- Roland Leach, WA
- Andrew Slattery, NSW
- Laurice Gilbert, NZ
- Lynley Edmeades, NZ
- Natalia Savvides, NSW
- Angela Malone, NSW
- Lisa Brockwell, NSW
Short story shortlist
- Elspeth Sandys, NZ
- Susan Hurley, NSW
- Laurie Steed, WA
- Catherine Chidgey, NZ
- Cate Kennedy, Vic
- Katerina Cosgrove, NSW
- Jenny Ackland, Vic
- Melissa Goode, NSW
Flash fiction shortlist
- Fiona Skepper, Vic
- Cory Taylor, QLD
- Peter McClelland, WA
- Cynthia Hyde, NSW
The mission of the Bridport Prize is ‘to encourage emerging writers and promote literary excellence through its competition structure’.
The poem and short story categories each have a first prize of £5000 (approximately A$7700), second prize £1000 (A$1700) and third prize £500 (A$770). An additional 10 supplementary prizes (for each category) of £50 (A$77) each are awarded.
The category for flash fiction with a prize of £1,000 (A$1700) was launched in 2010. There is a second prize of £500 (A$770), 3rd prize of £250 (A$390) and 3 supplementary prizes of £25 (A$39).
More information is availble on the website here.
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