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Success StoriesWe would like to hear from previous winners about successes they
have had since they won a prize in Bridport Prize.
Graham Mort won 1st prize in the 2007 short story competitionGraham writes 'I won first prize in the short fiction category in 2007 for my short story, 'The Prince'. A collection of my short stories - 'Touch' - will be published by Seren in 2009. Vanessa Gebbie won 2nd prize in the 2007 short story competitionVanessa writes 'I won Second Prize in Bridport 2007, with my story I Can Squash the King, Tommo. Liza Wieland won 3rd prize in the 2007 short story competitionLiza writes 'I wanted to tell you that my novel A Watch of Nightingales
was selected as the winner of the Michigan Literary Fiction Award and will be published
by The University of Michigan Press next year. An excerpt from the novel won the Indiana
Review fiction prize.'
Christopher Stocks won a supplementary prize in the 2007 poetry competitionChristopher writes:- My first book, Forgotten Fruits, was published by Random House in May 2008;
it's had great reviews, and was subsequently chosen by Monty Don as his favourite book of the year.
Forgotten Fruits was also shortlisted for the 2008 André Simon awards (they're the leading UK food-and-drink
book awards now that the Glenfidditch Award no longer exists) and the 2009 Guild of Food Writers awards.
A paperback edition was published this spring. Judith Allnatt won a supplementary prize in the 2007 short story competitionJudith writes ' My novel 'A Mile of River ' has been published by Transworld (Doubleday/Black Swan). The novel was chosen as Simon Mayo's Book of the Month for Radio 5 Live, in April 2008 and was shortlisted for the Portico Prize for Literature in November 2008. My second novel 'The Poet's Wife' will be published by Transworld in July 2009. I was thrilled to be included in the Bridport Prize shortlist and the anthology and found it enormously encouraging that Tracey Chevalier, a writer whose work I admire, had chosen my story. Isabel Ashdown won a supplementary prize in the 2006 poetry competitionIsabel's novel,
Glasshopper, was launched in September 2009. An extract from Glasshopper won the Mail on Sunday
Novel Competition 2008, judged by Fay Weldon, Sir John Mortimer and Michael Ridpath. Laura Solomon won a supplementary prize in the 2005 and 2004 short story competitionsSince being in the 2004 and 2005 anthologies, I have had a short story collection 'Alternative Medicine' published by Flame Books, UK 2008 a novel 'An Imitation of Life' published by Solidus, UK, 2009 and another novel 'Instant Messages' accepted by Proverse Publishing, Hong Kong. Carys Davies was a runner-up in the 2005 short story competitionHer first short story collection 'Some New Ambush' was published
September 2007 by Salt, www.saltpublishing.com the
Cambridge based publisher of poetry, fiction and non-fiction. Jane Borodale was a runner-up in the 2005 short story competition.Her first novel The Book of Fires www.bookarmy.com will be published by HarperCollins in June 2009 as part of a two-book deal. A story about love, redemption and eighteenth-century fireworks, it is also due out early 2010 in the USA, with Viking. Jane said 'I was thrilled when The Butcher's Daughter won a prize in the Bridport. It felt like a confirmation that my writing was coming together and heading in the right direction, and I'm sure that, in a circuitous way, it helped towards publication of my novel. Thank you!' David Swann won three short story prizes in the Bridport - in 1996, 2000, and 2003. Two short stories were also placed on the shortlist in 2005.He said "All five stories (one of them re-titled) were included
in my debut short story collection 'The Last Days of Johnny
North', published by Elastic Press of Norwich in January,
2006." Dorene O'Brien from the USA. won 1st Prize and £3000 in 2004 short story competition.She wrote to say "Just wanted to say that winning the Bridport in 2004 has been great for me and for my writing career. My short story collection, Voices of the Lost and Found , is available June 2007. I have put together a web site Dorene OBrien to promote the book (which includes the winning story). Emma Darwin from London won third prize in the 2004 short story competition.When Jim Crace gave my story 'Maura's Arm' third prize in 2004, I began to feel that my writing career was taking off. Sure enough, nine months later I was offered a two-book deal by Headline Review. My first novel The Mathematics of Love will be published on 3rd July 2006, and by Morrow in the US in January 2007. French, Russian and Polish translation rights have already been sold, and I'm now working on my second novel as part of a PhD in Creative Writing at Goldsmiths' College. Graham Clifford, London, UK. won a supplementary poetry prize for his poem "Searching for Sleep" in the 2004 competition.
Graham was also shortlisted in the 2007 Poetry Competition. Alex Keegan, Newbury, UK. won second prize in the 2003 short story competition.
Alex writes:- Although I was already writing novels my true love was the short story Mo McAuley from Kent, UK won a supplementary short story prize in the 2003 Bridport Prize.She has a book called 'The A - Z Man' coming out in June 2008. It’s now up for pre-order on Amazon and Waterstones websites. Jane Rusbridge from West Wittering, Sussex, UK won a supplementary short story prize in the 2003 Bridport Prize.Her novel The Devil's Music is
published in July 2009 by Bloomsbury, with whom she has a two book deal. The central
character in the short story which won the prize wouldn't leave her alone, and The
Devil's Music grew from that story!
Adam Marek from Bedfordshire, UK won a supplementary short story prize in the 2003 Bridport Prize.He has a story in the British Council's New Writing anthology, which comes out in June 2007, and Comma Press are publishing his first collection of short stories in October, so things are going really well. He is looking forward to meeting Rose Tremain at the Prospect event, as it was Rose that selected 40-litre monkey in Bridport 2003. Tiffany Atkinson won a supplementary poetry prize in 2002Congratulations to Tiffany Atkinson who has won the 2007 Jerwood Aldeburgh First Collection Prize for her collection 'Kink and Particle' . The news was announced at this year's Aldeburgh Poetry Festival - Tiffany will receive £3,000 a week's paid protected writing time plus a paid invitation to read and participate at the 2008 Aldeburgh Poetry Festival. Kink and Particle has also been shortlisted for the Glen Dimplex New Writers Award and is a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. Morgan McDermott from Chicago, USA won a supplementary short story prize in the 2002 Bridport PrizeThe Ohio State University Press and the M.F.A. Program in
Creative Writing at OSU are pleased to announce that Morgan
McDermott has been selected as the 2006 winner of The Ohio State
University Prize in Short Fiction for his collection of short
stories Owner's Manual. Rowland Molony from Beer in Devon won first prize in the 2001 Bridport Prize Poetry competition.In 2007 his novel, 'After the Death of Alice Bennett', was published by Oxford University Press. Kate Long from Shropshire, UK won a supplementary short story prize in the 2001 Bridport Prize.A year after Kate Atkinson picked my short story Wish Lists out
to win a supplementary prize, I landed a two-book deal with
Picador. In March 2004 my first novel, The Bad Mother's Handbook,
got to number one in the Times bestseller chart, was serialised
on Radio 4 and nominated for a British Book Award. The novel has
now been sold to twenty four countries and is being made into a
tv film starring Catherine Tate. I’ve since had two more
novels published, Swallowing Grandma and Queen Mum, and my
fourth, The Daughter Game, will be published in 2007. Rebecca Goss from Liverpool, UK won a supplementary poem prize in the 2000 Bridport Prize.My poem 'Aeroplanes' won a supplementary prize in 2000. It has since been
animated and was aired on BBC Big Screens nationwide. You can see it here at
'www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJLleTY59-U' 1999 Poetry Winner: Mario PetrucciCapturing the winning slot with Negatives (composed in those first nervy days of my residency at the Imperial War Museum) provided a booster rocket in that long, deep-space journey many writers endure: of feeling they might just have permission to place themselves somewhere among the literary constellations. Something in my poem had seized the judge's attention across the starless divide of anonymity, thereby reaching thousands of observers. I've since had several near-misses, including a prose longlisting (2007); but Negatives continues to spread its dark petals at the heart of my most recent collection, Flowers of Sulphur ( Enitharmon). Of course, poetry isn't ever about awards; but there's nothing wrong with aiming (quietly, linguistically) for the moon. Bridport 1999 was a temporary protractor and slide-rule to help me gauge the trajectory, and required power, of my work. Richard Aronowitz 1999 poetry runner-upI was a runner-up (poetry) in 1999 when Tobias Hill was judge
and I have since then had eleven poems published in the anthology
“Anvil New Poets 3” (Anvil Press, 2001); single poems
published in “The Guardian” and “The
Interpreter’s House”, three in “Envoi”
(forthcoming), etc. My debut novel, “Five Amber
Beads”, came out in 2006 from Flambard Press to good
reviews. Robert Dodds was a runner up in 1995 with the story 'Hairpin Bend'.'Hairpin Bend' was one of the stories included in my first
published collection 'Rattlesnake and Other Tales' (Polygon, 2001). Additionally,
I have now had nine stories broadcast on BBC Radio Four. I also write novels for older
children, and Andersen Press have published my supernatural thrillers 'The Midnight Clowns'
(also published in France), 'NIghtland', and 'The Secret of Iguando' (also published in the USA,
and broadcast on BBC Radio Four). My fourth novel in this series, 'The Murrian', comes out in
October 2008. Kathy Page was a winner in 1994 and a runner up in 1996Winning the award in 1994 was a great boost. I think writers published, unpublished and in between need all the encouragement they can get. Since winning, I've gone on to publish two novels: Alphabet, nominated for the Governor General's Award here in Canada, and The Story of My Face, long-listed for the Orange Prize. I have continued to wrote short fiction too, and have much enjoyed writing commissioned stories for both Radio 3 and 4. www.KathyPage.info Elizabeth Kay won third prize in the short story competition in 1987.I won third prize in the short story competition in 1987. I know this is a long time ago now, but it was so lovely to be taken seriously and it really did make a difference to the way I looked at my work. Since then I've had a lot of things published. The best known is the Divide trilogy, published by Chicken House, for chidren of 9+., which has been translated into several languages. In March 2008 Fury will be published by Barrington Stoke, and I have another one due out in 2009. I have a website: www.elizabethkay.co.uk And we are proud that that these writers entered Bridport Prize:-Helen Dunmore (1990) Paul Farley (1994) Tobias Hill (1994, 1996, +?) Sheena Pugh (1995, 1997, 1999, 2003) Mario Petrucci (1999, 2000) Glyn Maxwell (1989) Jane Draycott (1998, 2000, 2002) |
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