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Bridport Prize 2009 - Short Story Prizewinner's. Judge : - Ali Smith
Judges short story
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1st Prize £5000 Jenny Clarkson, Lincoln "Something"
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Jenny Clarkson lives in Lincoln with her partner and her son, just up the
road from daughter and grandchildren. She works part-time at the town's
arts centre. She says she attended the university of life but missed a lot of
the lectures. She has an allotment and dances the flamenco. She started
writing short stories only in January, since when she has set herself what
seems to her a punishing schedule of one a month. Her winning story is
the first she has submitted. Has published poetry withFire, Obsessed with
Pipework, Poetry New, Dreamcatcher, The Interpreter's Houseand The
North. She has had poems in the following small anthologies: Tundra
Gap published by Dreamcatcher, Spires and Steeples published by Arts
North Kesteven, along with Words in the Wolds Anthology 2008 published
by Dream Catcher Books.
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2nd Prize £1000 Natasha Soobramanien, Edinburgh
"Some Nice Stories, And One Not"
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| Natasha Soobramanien grew up in London, Hong Kong and Hastings.
Natasha's writing has appeared in Magnetic Promenade and other
Sculpture Parks, edited by Chris Evans, and New Writing 14, edited by
Lavinia Greenlaw and Helon Habila. She has recently contributed three
chapters to Luke Williams'novel The Echo Chamber (Hamish Hamilton),
which will be published in June 2010. Together with Luke Williams,
Natasha co-organises Plum, an occasional live literature night:
www.plumlive.co.uk She is a graduate of the MAin Creative Writing at
UEA, and currently lives in Edinburgh, where she is working on a
novel. She enjoys the company of dogs and poets. Website:
www.plumlive.co.uk
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3rd Prize £500 N Nye, Colorado, USA
"The Queens from Houston"
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N Nye's widely published stories have appeared in Glimmer Train,
Cutthroat, Writers' Forum, bananafish, Inkwell, Open Windows 2006,
and an anthology, Higher Elevations: Stories from the West. 'Notes of
the Oldest Daughter', a novel excerpt, was published by Writers'Forum,
1977. She lives in Longmont and Westcreek, Colorado, U.S.A.
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Supplementary Prizes (alphabetical order) - £50 Each
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| Bobbie Allen, Cardiff "Hollie's Dream of Consciousness" |
| Bobbie Allen, daughter of a nurse and a trucker, is a teacher in a
comprehensive school. She has lived in Cardiff all her life except for a
brief, unsuccessful stint in That London. Bobbie is a rabid Cardiff City
supporter, she loves champagne and winning a small Bridport is a very
good excuse to go and buy a bottle.
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| Cheryl Alu, Los Angeles, USA "The Betsy" |
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Cheryl Alu lives in Los Angeles where she is a television and screen
writer. She has had short fiction published in the Mississippi Review,
Other Voices, The Barcelona Reviewand The Robert Olen Butler Prize
Anthology.
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| Anna Britten, Bath "On Creation" |
| Anna Britten is a freelance journalist living in Bath. After reading
modern languages at Oxford, she spent several years in London working
for record companies and then for Time Out magazine. Her short fiction
has been publishedin the Bloomsbury anthology of Asham Award
finalists 'Is This What You Want?', online at Eclectica and Prick Of The
Spindle, broadcast in BBC Radio 4's Afternoon Reading slot, and
shortlisted for various other competitions, including Fish. She is also the
author of a music industry career guide now in its third edition. She's
currently polishing her first novel and looking for an agent.
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| Zach Falcon, Iowa City, USA "The Malamute " |
| Zach Falcon was born and raised in Alaska. He is a graduate of Columbia,
the University of Michigan Law School, and the Iowa Writers'Workshop.
He currently lives in Iowa City, where he is working on a novel.
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| Helen Geoghegan, London "The War Baby " |
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Helen Geoghegan was born in Carlow, Ireland and studied English at
Trinity College, Dublin. She has had stories published in a number of
anthologies. One of seven siblings, she was, she says, privileged to grow
up with a ferocious quality of communication. Aparticular detail of how
siblings communicate unconsciously can get her onto the writing
frequency, as can Tupperware, skin and most body parts. She has won
prizes in the London Writers Competition and the Legend Award and was
shortlisted for the Fish Prize and Asham Award.
Writing has helped her get the hang of herself.
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| Kate Hendry, Newmilns, Scotland "Don't Say Anything" |
| Kate Hendry teaches English & Creative Writing at Barlinnie Prison in
Glasgow and for the Open University. She lives in Ayrshire with her
partner, two children, six hens and a duck. In 2007 she was awarded a
Scottish Arts Council New Writer's Bursary to write a collection of linked
short stories. 'Dont Say Anything'is one of them. Her short stories have
been published in Mslexia, New Writing Scotland and Harpers
amongst others.
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Nicholas Hogg, London "Happy Birthday"
| Nicholas Hogg won the inaugural New Writing Ventures prize for fiction.
His novel, Show Me the Sky- 'An assured and gripping début', BBC
Radio 3 - is published by Canongate. His most recent work features in
Notes From theUnderground, RiptideandLitro, as well as winner of the
2009 'Editor's Choice'award in the Raymond Carver Short Story contest.
Website: www.nicholashogg.com
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| Joshua Lobb, Newtown, Australia "I forgot my programme so I went to get it back" |
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Joshua Lobb is Lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of
Wollongong, Australia. He received his PhD from the University of New
South Wales in 2004. Scholarly papers include: 'I could just walk out of
this inconvenient story', 'Narrative Possibility in the Fairy Tales of A.S.
Byatt'(UEA, 2009), 'Degrees of Relation: Iris Murdoch and A.S. Byatt'
(ibidem-Verlag, 2009), and (with Dr Malcolm Ryan) 'The Tale of Peter
Rabbit: ACase Study in Story-Sense Reasoning'(AAAI, 2007). He is the
writer of the plays Daedalus, Wilde Tales and Still at Aulis. He is currently
working on a prose piece entitled The Centre of It All.
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| Annemarie Neary, London "Siren" |
| Annemarie Neary was educated in Dublin, at Trinity College and King's
Inns. She joined the general exodus of the late eighties and moved to
London to work as a lawyer. Eventually, after many years of joint-
operating agreements, she succumbed to the charms of Venice, in the form
of an MAin Venetian Renaissance art at the Courtauld Institute. Earlier
this year, she won the Bryan MacMahon short story award at Listowel
Writers'Week and came third in the Fish International Short Story award.
She has written a novel, currently unpublished, set in neutral Ireland in
1941 and is in the midst of writing another, from which this story is taken.
She is also working on a collection of short stories set in Venice. She lives
in London with her husband and their three sons.
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Teresa Stenson, York "In a seaside café"
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Teresa Stenson's first novel was written by hand, each word in a different coloured
crayon (it wasn't very long). She thinks her Mum might still have it somewhere.
She started writing seriously (in black and white) four years ago and her short stories
have been published widely, both in print and online, in places such as Brand Literary Magazine, The Orphan Leaf Review,
and anthologies from Leaf Books and Guildhall Press. Two of her stories were highly commended in Aesthetica's
Creative Works Competition 2009.
Teresa is a fiction reader for Tomlit Magazine, and she lives in York where she works and writes
in coffee shops, trying not to look like she's listening to other people's conversations. She is working on a novel.
You can read more about Teresa, her writing and her eavesdropping at teresa-stenson.blogspot.com .
"Winning a Bridport prize for a story told in an unusual way - and a story I loved writing -
has reminded me to have the confidence to write the way I want to."
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Dorset Award
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Joanna Quinn, Bournemouth "All of These Things Are True and Not True "
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Joanna Quinn was born in London, but grew up in Weymouth, Dorset,
where she started her career as a journalist on the Dorset Echo. After
living and working in Bristol for some years, she has returned to Dorset,
this time to work in public relations. She is currently studying for an
Mphil in Creative Writing at the University of Glamorgan and came
second in the Bridport Prize last year. Joanna has also had a short story
published in a Leaf Books anthology of the winners of their Open
Short Story Competition 2006 and had a story featured in the New
Welsh Review. She was recently chosen to be one of nine writers to be
awarded a place on the Jerwood/Arvon Mentoring Scheme 2009
(http://www.arvonfoundation.org/p201.html) and is now working on her
first novel.
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Short Story Short List
(in no particular order)
| Andrew Bridgmont, London |
Greer Hahn, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia |
| Wenzhe Ced Chen, Berks |
Matthew Weait, London |
| Frank Dineen, Wayne, USA |
Teresa Stenson, York |
| Myrlin Hermes, Portland, USA |
Anna Britten, Bath |
| Emily Grabham, Kent |
Annemarie Neary, London |
| Sue Royal, East Sussex |
Renée Bacher, Baton Rouge, USA |
| Mark Lee, Middlesbrough |
D I Norris, Geneva, Switzerland |
| Michael Wendling, London |
C D Rose, Norwich |
| John Cross, East Sussex |
Zach Falcon, Iowa City, USA |
| Kate Hendry, Newmilns, Scotland |
Roderic Vincent, London |
| Jeannette Allée, Seattle, USA |
Joshua Lobb, Newtown, Australia |
| Cheryl Alu, Los Angeles, USA |
Lara Toohey, Sydney, Australia |
| Jill Widner, Yakima, USA |
Bethany Proud, Herts |
| Pascale Free, Glasgow |
Clarence Smith, Nashville, USA |
| Nicholas Hogg, London |
Judith Turner-Yamamoto, Cincinnati, USA |
| Neil Hegarty, Dublin, Ireland |
Kate Clanchy, Oxford |
| Rebecca Graham, Madrid, Spain |
Erin Gough, Annandale, Australia |
| Shanta Everington, Essex |
N Nye, Colorado, USA |
| David Savill, London |
Madeleine D'Arcy, Cork, Ireland |
| Alison Flett, Orkney, Scotland |
Rachel White, London |
| Joanna Quinn, Bournemouth |
Roshi Fernando, Glos |
| Sean Lusk, West Sussex |
Romi Jones, Northumberland |
| Meghan McAvoy, Edinburgh |
Tamsin Evans, Exeter |
| Edd Howarth, Cornwall |
Frances Simmons, Annandale, Australia |
| Nick Holdstock, Edinburgh |
Nichola Bendall, West Sussex |
| Paul McGurk, Glasgow |
Natasha Soobramanien, Edinburgh |
| P J Moyer, Bristol |
Amanda Block, Edinburgh |
| Jennifer Olds, California, USA |
Gabriela Blandy, Oxford |
| Carolyn Jess-Cooke, Tyne & Wear |
Daniel Gent, Oxford |
| Linda Thurston, Beds |
Ruth Thomas, Edinburgh |
| Madeleine York, London |
Julie Hayman, Bath |
| Stuart Richardson, Herts |
Sarah Sarre, West Sussex |
| Sarah Shaw, Newcastle upon Tyne |
Lorna Ferguson, Oxford |
| Gaby Pritchard, West Sussex |
Denise Leppard, Kent |
| Peter Bromley, Northumberland |
Susan Scotting, Devon |
| Mark Dennis, Herts |
Bobbie Allen, Cardiff |
| Jenny Clarkson, Lincoln |
Helen Geoghegan, London |
| Elizabeth Rigbey, Bournemouth |
Marian McGraith, Lancaster |
| Cynthia Rogerson, Ross-Shire, Scotland |
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