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Bridport Prize 2011 - Short Story Prizewinner's. Judge : - A L Kennedy
Judges short story
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1st Prize £5000 Kitty Aldridge, London "Arrivederci Les"
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Kitty Aldridge was born in the Middle East but grew up in England. A graduate
of the Drama Centre, London, she has since worked in theatre, film, and
television as an actress and writer. Her first novel, POP, (Cape 2001) was longlisted
for the Orange Prize for Fiction 2002 and shortlisted for the Pendleton May
First Novel Award 2002. Her second novel, CRYERS HILL, (Cape) was published in 2007.
She has two children and lives in London. Her third novel A TRICK I
LEARNED FROM DEAD MEN will be published in the summer of 2012.
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2nd Prize £1000 Kevin Parry, Seaford, East Sussex
"Trying to Think in the Bantustan"
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Kevin Parry was born in Umtata (now Mthatha), South Africa, but has lived in England
since 1979. He was educated in both countries and holds a BA in History and History of Art
from the University of South Africa, and an MA in Education (Language, the Arts and Education)
from the University of Sussex.
He is, by instinct and artistic conviction, primarily a short story writer and has two completed
collections of short stories. However, he has also written a novella, radio plays and prose poems.
He is currently working on a novel which, like one of the story collections, is set in his native South Africa.
He has won prizes/publication in Stand Magazine, twice in Ireland's Fish Publishing short story competitions,
and this year is his third win in the Bridport Prize. His stories have also been published in the political
and cultural journal, Soundings, and in the post-colonial journal, Kunapipi.
Parry’s winner in the Bridport Prize this year –
‘Trying to Think in the Bantustan’ –
comes from his collection, When it Was Raining, which is
currently unpublished. The collection spans the Verwoertian
Apartheid of the 1950s to the Truth & Reconciliation Commission
of 1995. With passion, irony, humour and a poetic eye, these
stories dig deep into the tangled lives and psyches of ordinary
people in this complex multicultural country. |
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3rd Prize £500 Barrie De Lara, Norwich "Dinner At Benutti's"
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Barrie de Lara grew up in rural Essex, and attended Westcliff High School in Leigh-on-Sea,
and Pembroke College, Oxford where he read Oriental Studies. He studied Classical Chinese with
Raymond Dawson, and Tibetan under Trungpa Tulku. For many years he has worked as a teacher of
various things - singing, cookery, Latin - but mostly of English as a foreign language, and as
an examiner for Trinity College, London. He has also had a variety of temporary occupations. He is
married, has four children and two grandchildren, and lives in Norwich. He loves old churches and
sailing vessels and has sung in choirs for more than fifty years.
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Highly Commended (alphabetical order) - £50 Each
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| Sheila Barrett, Dublin "Elephants Aren't Forgotten" |
| Sheila Barrett grew up in Dallas, Texas. She was educated in Texas and New York
and moved to Ireland with her husband, John Barrett when he returned to Dublin. She has
tutored, run writing workshops, taken screen- writing and archaeology courses, worked in
retail and run after children. She has published two novels, Walk in a Lost Landscape and
A View to Die for. She was a finalist in the Glimmer Train short story competition, 2002.
She has had stories broadcast on RTE and on BBC Woman's Hour. She is now writing and
chasing grandchildren.
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| Tray Butler, London "The Last Place You Look" |
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Tray Butler is a journalist and illustrator who has written short stories, essays,
critical reviews, hard news and humour pieces for a wide range of outlets in the U.S.
and the U.K. His travel guide, The Moon Atlanta Handbook, was published by Avalon Travel
in 2009; the second edition arrives in 2012. Tray recently completed a Master's Degree in
Creative Writing from The University of London's Birkbeck College. His short story,
'We Look for the Resurrection of the Dead,' appears in the autumn 2011 edition of The
Mechanics Institute Review.
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| Rachel Cantor, New York, USA "Half Life of a Stolen Sister" |
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Rachel Cantor's stories have appeared in nearly 20 literary magazines in the U.S.,
including the Paris Review, One Story, Kenyon Review, Ninth Letter, Fence, and the New
England Review. She has been resident at the Yaddo, MacDowell, Hawthornden, and numerous
other artists' residencies. "Half-Life of a Stolen Sister" is the title story of a novel-in-stories
currently in progress. She lives in Brooklyn.
Publisher & list of publications
(all short stories, all published in the U.S.)
· ‘Love Drugstore,’ Kenyon Review
(Vol. 33, No. 3, 2011)
· ‘Chuliak,’ Post Road (No. 19,
2010)
· ‘Confessions of a Cerebral Lover,’
Fence (Vol. 12, No. 2, 2009-10)
· ‘Assignment,’ The Normal School
(Vol. 2, No. 2, 2009)
· ‘White Sky’ Flight Patterns
(anthology, Grove Press/Open City Books, 2009)
· ‘Tibet, New York,’ New England
Review (Vol. 29, No. 4, 2008)
· ‘Priscilla Learns a Lesson,’
Redivider (Vol. 5, No. 2, 2008)
· ‘Being the Life of Samuel Argento, M.D., Before the
Fateful Day on Which He Meets Celine,’ Denver
Quarterly (Vol. 42, No. 2, 2008) |
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| Justine Mann, Norwich "Love by Proxy" |
| Justine Mann is a fiction writer, creative writing tutor and careers adviser.
She is currently working on a novel, a first draft of which was completed while
studying creative writing at the University of East Anglia. Justine's short stories
have been published in a number of anthologies, she was shortlisted for the Bridport
fiction prize in 2008 and won 2nd prize in the Fish International Short Story Prize
in 2007. She lives in Norwich with her partner and son.
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| David Pescod, Cambridge "Wishbone Duty" |
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Dave Pescod started writing jokes for BBC radio, and
monologues for in-flight entertainment whilst a student at The
Royal College of Art. After running a greetings cards company he
began writing again in 2002, winning a short story competition
and having ‘Rising Laughter’ broadcast on BBC Radio
4. Other prose has been published in Dreamcatcher, Transmission,
Route magazines, highly commended in The Writers’ and
Artists Yearbook, and The Commonwealth Short Story competitions
2009. He was selected for the Royal Literary Fund Mentor scheme,
also Norwich Writers Escalator Programme where he was awarded an
Arts Council Grant to complete his first novel. His first
collection of short stories ‘All Embracing’ will be
published by Route this year.
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| James Kinase, London "Some Times" |
| Mr Kinase has a wife and children. He lives in Lambeth and works in Westminster.
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Peggy Riley, Whitstable, Kent "Methlahem"
| Peggy Riley is a writer, playwright and community artist living in Kent. She
won third prize in Mslexia's Women's Short Story Competition, 2011. Her work has been
published in Willesden Herald New Short Stories 2010 and can be found on the Ether Books
app. As a playwright she has been commissioned and produced off-West End, regionally and
on tour. She recently completed her first novel.
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| Martha Schulman, New York, USA "Saul Kaplan's Midrash" |
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Martha Schulman is a native New Yorker. Her stories and essays have been published
in a variety of journals and she is a regular reviewer for Publisher's Weekly. Her story
"Zero to Thirty" received honorable mention in the 2003 Bridport competition and was published
in that year's Bridport Anthology. She is a past winner of the Dora Teitelboim Foundation's
Jewish Cultural Award for her story "Full Half-heart: Notes of a Bad Jew." She recently completed
a novel, Italian Lessons.
List of publications:
Fiction: "Learn Where You Can," The Beacon Street Review
"The Gellman Memorial," The Seattle Review
"Housekeeping," Gulf Stream Magazine
"Zero to Thirty,"2003 Bridport Prize Anthology
Essays: "Poetry: Self-Help for People who Don't Read Self-Help Books," The Kings English
"Full Half-heart: Notes of a Bad Jew," Jewish Currents
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| Bernadette Smyth, Dundalk, Ireland "European Monetary Union" |
| Bernadette M Smyth is a member of Dundalk Writers' Group in County Louth, Ireland.
In 2009 she won the Fish One-Page Story Prize. She was also a runner up in the Fish Short
Story Prize the following year. Her story 'Digging Australia' was broadcast on RTE Radio
One as part of the 2010 Francis Mac Manus season. She was highly commended by the Bryan Mac
Mahon Short Story Competition earlier on this year.
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Pat Winslow, Hailey Witney, Oxon "The Long Straight Road"
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Pat Winslow worked for twelve years as an actor and left the
theatre in 1987 to take up writing. Her recent poetry collections
include Unpredictable Geometry and Dreaming of
Walls Repeating Themselves. Occasional forays into fiction
include Iota and Comma Press’s Parenthesis as
well as previous Bridport competition anthologies. Pat is
currently working as a writer in residence at a prison. Blog: http://thepatwinslow.blogspot.com/
Unpredictable Geometry – Templar Poetry
Dreaming of Walls Repeating Themselves – Templar Poetry
Skin & Dust – Blinking Eye
The Girl in the Iron Lung – Crocus
The Fact of an Eye– Amazing Colossal
Harvest –Jackson's Arm
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Short Story Short List
(in no particular order)
| Christopher Rae, Ilkley West Yorkshire |
Thomas Pyner, Stoke Plymouth |
| Andrew LloydJones, Chalfont St Peter, Bucks |
Juliet O'Callaghan, Flitwick, Beds |
| Nicole Le Marie, Northampton |
Emily Grabham, Whitstable, Kent |
| Paul Duffy, Baldoyle, Dublin, Ireland |
Michael Crossan, Renfrewshire, Scotland. |
| Angela Leighton, Cambridge |
Uta Coutts, Hitchin, Herts |
| Cynthia Rogerson, Dingwall, Scotland |
Annemarie Neary, London |
| Lindsay Hawdon, Seaford, East Sussex |
Sarah Harris, Uig, Isle of Skye |
| Joanna Campbell, Bisley, Glos |
Rebecca F. John, Swansea, Wales. |
| Charlie Moss, Brighton, East Sussex |
Renee Bacher, Baton Rouge, LA, USA |
| Mohini Singh, London |
Su Scotting, Crediton, Devon |
| Marli Roode, London |
Sandra Powley, York |
| Claire Hennessy, Dublin, Ireland |
Pat Winslow, Hailey Witney, Oxon |
| Colin Barrett, Co Mayo, Ireland |
Ellen Wiles, London |
| Frances Merivale, London |
Miranda McLeod, New York, USA |
| Catherine Chidgey, Ngaruawahia, New Zealand |
Roger Hyams, London |
| Nancy Jo Cullen, Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
Graham Fletcher, Sunderland |
| Georgina Bruce, Smethwick, West Midlands |
Katerina Cosgrove, Avalon, NSW, Australia |
| Mary Bilan, California, USA |
Diane Awerbuck, Fish Hoek, South Africa |
| Mary Costello, Dublin, Ireland |
Laura Nicholson, London |
| Gustavo Arevalo Rendall, London |
Nasim Marie Jafry, Edinburgh, Scotland |
| Janet Webster, St Helens, Merseyside |
Emma Martin, Wellington, New Zealand |
| Khalid Kurji, Baltimore, Maryland, USA |
Joel Graham, Barcelona, Spain |
| Rebecca Swirsky, London |
Catriona Silvey, Edinburgh, Scotland |
| Lawrence Blackwell, Hastings, East Sussex |
Linda Dobbs, Swansea, Wales |
| Alison Love, London |
Juliet Bates, St Agnan de Cernieres, France |
| Jeffrey Bakkensen, Chicago, IL, USA |
Maude Casey, Brighton, East Sussex |
| Jane Shemilt, Bristol |
Sophie Lister, Southampton |
| Jean McNeil, London |
Emily Goldman, New York, USA |
| Seymour Clare, London |
Terence Eeles, Croydon, Surrey |
| Fiona Salter, Bray, Ireland |
George Craig, Glasgow, Scotland |
| Jeremy Tiang, Singapore |
David Butler, Bray, Ireland |
| B R T Langridge, Groombridge, Kent |
Naomi Deasey, Leominster, Herefordshire |
| Zoe Teale, Oxford |
Gill Blow, Gainsborough, Lincs |
| Alan Mumford, London |
Penny Cotton, London |
| Sue Butler, Great Amwell, Hertfordshire |
Jennifer Watson, Marden, Kent |
| H Challis, Blackpool, Lancashire |
Wendy Edmond, Uppingham, Rutland |
| Elizabeth Dalton, New York, USA |
D R D Bruton, West Linton, Borders |
| Linda Leatherbarrow, Kirkcudbright, Scotland |
Alice Jolly, Stroud, Gloucestershire |
| Ruth Figgest, Seaford, E Sussex |
Claudia Jessop, London |
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