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Sunday Times EFG Private Bank Short Story Award 2011

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Closing date: 
30 October 2011
Entry: 
Eligibility: fiction author who has had work published in Britain or Ireland.
Prize: 
First prize: £30,000 for a single story, it is the world’s most valuable short story prize

Sunday Times EFG Private Bank Short Story Award

Closing date 1pm on 30 October

First prize:  £30,000 for a single story, it is the world’s most valuable short story prize.

Eligibility: fiction author who has had work published in Britain or Ireland.

The judges will be looking for a “superlative story” of 6,000 words or under from a fiction author who has had work published in Britain or Ireland. Apart from the main prize, the five shortlisted writers will receive £500 each, as well as having the chance to appear in the Sunday Times Magazine and online.

The judges are novelist, screenwriter and broadcaster Melvyn Bragg, columnist and broadcaster Daisy Waugh, writer and journalist Will Self, author A S Byatt, and Andrew Holgate, literary editor of the Sunday Times. The non-voting chair of Judges is Matthew Evans, Chairman of EFG Private Bank.

The long list will be announced on 20 February 2011, and the shortlist on 13 March. The winner will be announced at a special event at the Sunday Times Oxford Literary Festival on 8 April.

For full details of eligibility and how to submit, go to: www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/shortstoryaward or
www.booktrust.org.uk/Prizes-and-awards/Sunday-Times-EFG-Private-Bank-Award

Closing date: 
30 October 2011
Entry: 
Eligibility: fiction author who has had work published in Britain or Ireland.
Prize: 
First prize: £30,000 for a single story, it is the world’s most valuable short story prize