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Bridport Prize 2008 - Short Story Prizewinner's. Judge :-
Helen Simpson
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Judges short story
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Photographs of the Short
Story prize giving |
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| 1st Prize £5000 Elaine Chiew, London. "Face" |
Elaine Peckleng Chiew I'm originally from Ipoh, Malaysia but
currently live in London with my husband and two children. I have
a B.A. in Political Science from Amherst College, Massachusetts,
and a J.D. law degree from Stanford University. Prior to writing
fiction seriously in 2005, I was a corporate securities lawyer
for a law firm in New York, and later for an investment bank in
Hong Kong and New York. I have lived and worked also in Thailand
and Vietnam, among other places. My short stories have appeared
most recently in Alimentum, Hobart, Best of the Web 2008
(published by Dzanc Books, USA) and other online literary
journals. I am planning a collection of short fiction.
www.elainepchiew.blogspot.com |
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| 2nd Prize £1000 Joanna Quinn, Weymouth, Dorset. "A
Pocket Guide to Infidelity for Girls" |
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Joanna Quinn was born in London, but grew up in Weymouth,
Dorset, and started her career as a journalist on the Dorset
Echo. After living and working in Bristol for some years, she has
now come back to Dorset again, this time to work in public
relations. She is also studying for an Mphil in Creative Writing
at the University of Glamorgan. Joanna has previously had a short
story published in a Leaf Books anothology of the winners of
their Open Short Story Competition 2006 and has had a story
featured in the New Welsh Review.
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| 3rd Prize £500 Sara Levine, Evanston, USA. "Little
Bad" |
| Sara Levine's writing has appeared in Nerve, Fence, The Iowa
Review, Conjunctions, and other magazines. She has won a Special
Mention in The Pushcart Anthology and three citations in The Best
American Essays. Her writing can also be found in The Touchstone
Anthology of Creative Nonfiction: 1970 to the Present. She has a
Ph.D in Literature from Brown University and is the recipient of
a Mellon Fellowship in the Humanities. She teaches at The School
of the Art Institute of Chicago. |
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Supplementary Prizes (alphabetical order) - £50 Each
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| Sarah Evans, Welwyn Garden City, Herts. "On such a
night" |
Sarah Evans was born in Barrow-in-Furness in 1965. She
studied physics at Oxford University, carrying on to do several
years research before moving out of academia into several
economics / analytic type jobs. She currently lives in Welwyn
Garden City with her husband.
She started writing several years ago and has had stories
published in a number of magazines and competition anthologies,
including Happenstance, Leaf, Writers’ Forum and
shortstoryradio.com. She is part of a small writers’ circle
who meet in London and is grateful for all their help and
support.
Managing to include a description of a favourite piece of music
in this story made writing it a particular pleasure. |
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| Fran Landsman, Bath. "Curl Up and Dye" |
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Fran Landsman I am a documentary film maker for which I've
won several awards. My films include ‘My Family And
Autism’ (Bafta nominee, winner Rocky award), ‘The
Secret Life Of The Classroom’ (RTS award nominee), and
‘The Waughs – Fathers And Sons.
I have just done an MA in creative writing at Bath Spa
University, and this story is part of a collection which forms a
‘fractured’ novel. My aim was to capture the lives of
various residents of one street in one town over one summer. The
extraordinary qualities of ordinary people is the theme.
I have also worked as a journalist and artist. One of my pieces
was in the 2008 Royal Academy Summer Show. I’m currently
making a film for ‘Imagine’ on BBC 1. |
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| Guy Mitchell, London. "Going for a Turkish" |
| Guy Mitchell was born in London, and grew up in Hong Kong and
South Devon. When he was a child, the family dog was called Woof.
He has a degree in English from University College London and has
always been interested in writing but only started doing any in
December 2005 after the birth of his son. By day a mild mannered,
contact-lense-wearing law librarian, by night - or on the bus, or
in odd snatched moments - he fights for truth and justice by
writing short stories that no one ever sees. He also writes
songs, sings and plays the guitar, at least in principle. Guy
lives in North London with his beautiful wife and son and a large
number of books, CDs and back numbers of the LRB. He is working
on more stories, trying to improve the ratio of stuff you keep to
stuff you throw away. |
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| Anna Rawlinson, London. "Portrait of a Lady" |
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Anna Rawlinson grew up in North Yorkshire and studied English
at Cambridge University. She lives in London and runs her own
business, an organisation development consultancy. Anna has just
finished writing her first novel. |
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| Geraldine Ryan, Chester-le-Street, Durham. "The Greenhouse
Effect" |
Gerry Ryan. The new writer in residence at HMP Full Sutton,
having previously worked as a writer and teacher in various
prisons around the country. Fascinated by the good in so-called
'bad' people and the bad in so-called 'good' people - and this
shows in my writing. First novel, For Security Reasons, needs a
publisher soon as I'm making good progress on my second novel,
Bang to Rights, and running out of available disk space.
Runner up Bridport prize in 2006 and published in the 2006
anthology |
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| Amy Shuckburgh, London. "Breathing" |
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Amy Shuckburgh, 31, is a portrait painter who lives and works
in London. She read English Literature at the University of Leeds
and completed an MA in Curating at Goldsmiths College, London.
She has painted portraits of writers Harold Pinter and Piers Paul
Read, among others, and has exhibited internationally. She
teaches English and Art. This is her first short story.
www.amyshuckburgh.moonfruit.com |
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| Lorna Bruce, Larbert, Scotland. "One for you" |
I was born in Falkirk, Scotland in 1966 and still live in the
area with my husband and three children. I started writing
creatively last year while completing a degree in English with
Education at the University of Stirling. My story, ‘One for
you, one for me’ comes from a collection I wrote while in
my final year.
I am now in my probationary year as an English teacher at Larbert
High School and am trying to keep on writing and attending
Stirling Writers’ Group.
Being a great fan of coincidence, I am delighted that a story
concerning the fickle nature of fate should also be my first
published work.
www.lorna-bruce.com
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| Eve Thomson, Edinburgh, Scotland. "Irrational
Acts" |
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Eve Thomson trained as a painter in Edinburgh. She lived in
the USA for fifteen years, where she taught painting at
university and college level. In 2003 she returned to live and
work in Edinburgh. A ten-year involvement with text in painting
gradually shifted from a primary focus on the interaction of text
and paint to the very specific content of the text itself. She
has been writing seriously since 2006. Awards include
short-listed prizewinner of the Harper’s Bazaar / Orange
Short Story Prize 2007. ‘Irrational Acts’ is, in
part, taken from her first novel in progress. |
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| Hilary Wilce, Hawkhurst, Kent. "On the Edge" |
Hilary Wilce lives in Kent and works as an education
journalist and consultant, writing primarily in The Independent
where she has a weekly column. Previously she has lived in
Africa, the Middle East and the United States. She has always
written fiction and won more than a dozen awards for her short
stories, including the Mathew Prichard Award, the Ian St James
Award, the Kent Literary Festival prize and last year, in the
USA, the Speculative Literature Foundation award. Her stories
have been published in The New Look, QFW, Connections, The New
Writer, The Mechanics Institute Review and The New Delta Review,
a US publication. Some years back she enjoyed a brief
“bill-paying” career writing nine romances for Mills
& Boon. She has a degree in geography from Cambridge and has
recently completed an MA in Creative Writing at Birkbeck, London,
with a view to devoting more time to writing fiction, including
novels, now her three children are grown.
www.hilarywilce.com |
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| Matthew Wright, Hamnavoe Burra, Shetland. "The Butcher and
the Thief" |
| Matthew Wright was born in 1975 and brought up in Kirkwall,
Orkney. He now lives in Hamnavoe, Burra in Shetland. He writes
about childhood, the pub and anything else he can get away with.
His work has appeared in The Pull of the Moon, The New
Shetlander, Shetland Life and Northwords. He has also been
published by North Idea in a collection of short stories called
"Topping Up". He has read his work at the Word and Wordfringe in
Aberdeen, the Wordplay book festival in Lerwick and in Faroe and
Iceland. |
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Story Short List
(in no particular order)
| Title |
Writer |
| 1954 |
Anthony Butten, London |
| The Beach Hut |
Anna Reynolds, St Albans, Herts |
| Getting away |
Elizabeth Sarkany, London |
| A Pocket Guide to Infidelity for Girls |
Joanna Quinn, Weymouth, Dorset |
| A Walk in the Park |
James Cressey, Sicily |
| My Lord Above |
David Brown, Auckland, New Zealand |
| Frank and the Pariah |
Graham Minett, Pagham, W Sussex |
| Irrational Acts |
Eve Thomson, Edinburgh |
| The Day of the Bear |
Janey Huber, Cambridge |
| Jetsam |
Alison Moore, Loughborough, Leics |
| The Third Place |
Sarah Holman, Burscough, Lancs |
| Oi Yoi Yoi |
Sue Hubbard, London |
| The Speed of Dark |
Anne Aylor, London |
| The Last Grand Illusion |
Douglas Bruton, West Linton, Scotland |
| Portrait of a Lady |
Anna Rawlinson, London |
| One for you, one for me |
Lorna Bruce, Larbert, Scotland |
| On the Edge |
Hilary Wilce, Hawkhurst, Kent |
| Hushed |
Nichola Bendall, Chichester, W Sussex |
| Pegasus |
Henry Layte, Norwich, Norfolk |
| The Edge |
Pippa Maynard, Horley, Surrey |
| Breathing |
Amy Shuckburgh |
| Little Bad |
Sara Levine, Evanston, USA |
| The Butcher and the Thief |
Matthew Wright, Hamnavoe Burra, Shetland |
| Going for a Turkish |
Guy Mitchell, London |
| Side-effects |
Alison Green, Poole, Dorset |
| The House Call |
Jacob Appel, New York, USA |
| A Small Rectangular Dredge |
Renee Bacher, Baton Rouge, USA |
| Swan Song |
Frank Dineen, Wayne, USA |
| Driving while blind |
Cheryl Alu, Los Angeles, USA |
| MooshMoosh |
Justine Mann, London |
| The Illusion of Life |
Nicholas Proctor, Porirua, New Zealand |
| On such a night |
Sarah Evans, Welwyn Garden City, Herts |
| Vanishing Acts |
Penny Feeny, Liverpool |
| No Peeking |
Michael Schiavone, Gloucester, USA |
| The Fat Boy |
Robert Dodds, Edinburgh |
| Resonance |
Carey Saleh, Redditch, Worcs |
| Face |
Elaine Chiew, London |
| The Sinking Ship |
Joan Brennan, London |
| An anniversary, of sorts |
Gabriela Blandy, Oxford |
| Snails |
Rachel Crowther, Oxford |
| Dolly and the Lambs |
Annemarie Neary, London |
| Snow Men |
Naomi Williams, Davis, USA |
| Love-lies-bleeding |
Hilary Spiers, Stamford, Lincs |
| State of Affairs |
Drew Gummerson, Leicester |
| Dreams of Bantry Bay |
Heather Mulkey, Cobham, Surrey |
| The Big Road |
N Nye, Colorado Springs, USA |
| The Greenhouse Effect |
Geraldine Ryan, Chester-le-Street, Durham |
| Curl Up and Dye |
Fran Landsman, Bath |
| Boy running |
Jemma Kennedy, London |
| The Bird Child |
Andrea Blundell, Solihull, W Midlands |
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