Bridport Prize 2001 - Short Story Prizewinners. Judge : - Kate Atkinson

1st Prize £3000 Chris Hill, Gloucester."The Runner"

Chris is 35, was born in Barrow-in-Furness but now lives in Gloucester. He is married with a son and another baby is due in November 2001. After graduating in English from Leeds University he has worked as a journalist on regional newspapers for the past 14 years, first as a reporter, then news editor and most recently as editor of The News Series free newspapers in Gloucestershire. He has written fiction as a hobby for many years, and Bridport Prize is his biggest competition win so far.

2nd Prize £1000 Kristina Amadeus, Penzance. "A Swan Named Love"

Kristina is British born, and is the archivist and curator for a collection of paintings and papers known as the Estate of Wallace Putnam in NYC, USA. She returned to England a few years ago and at present lives on a clifftop on the rugged Land's End peninsular of Cornwall.
She was for many years a theatrical agent and film production associate and began the slow journey into writing fiction after surviving cancer in 1983.
Co-winner of the Ian St James Award in 1995, her winning story was published in Pleasure Vessels, 1997. She has published stories in Mslexia Magazine, The New Writer and Sufi Journal and has been shortlisted for Ireland's Fish Award and the Mere Literacy Prize. She is at present working on two novels and a collection of short stories.

3rd Prize £500 Linda Leatherbarrow, London "Ride"

Linda has been three times 1st Prize Winner of the London Writers Competition. In 2001 her story 'Lost Boys' won an Asham Award. Other stories have been published in magazines including Ambit, Cosmopolitan and Writing Women and in the anthologies, Sleeping Rough, The Nerve, Signals 2 and The British Council's New Writing 8. They have also been broadcast on BBC Radio 4. In 1995 she set up the Haringey Literature Festival and co-ordinated it for three years. She teaches at various institutions in London including The City University and Middlesex University.

Supplementary Prizes - £50 Each :-

Susan Irvine, London. "Blood Diamonds"
Mary Hallah, Hawkhurst, Kent. "Parting Shot"
Peter Blair, Osbaldwick, York. "The Pass"
Philip Hansell, Ely Cambs. "Brought to you by the makers of Norriss Toothbrushes , the unseen power behind Britain's Smile"
Jenny Adams, Newcastle upon Tyne. "Breathing the Waves"
Lesley Byers, Bournemouth. "Designa Garu"
John Pook, Mouans Sartoux, France. "The Girl from Gobabis"
Kate Long, Whitchurch, Shropshire. "Wish Lists"
Stevie Davies, Cheadle Hulme, Cheshire. "Mirrors"
Nick Durston, Sherborne, Dorset. "The White Cadillac

Bridport Prize 2001 - Poetry Prizewinners. Judge : - Maura Dooley

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1st Prize £3000 Rowland Molony, Beer, Devon. "The Dying and the LIght"

Rowland is 35, a teacher and lecturer. He publishes occasional articles on literary and educational matters. He has published one collection of poems, Frogs and Co, and two children's novellas in Zimbabwe. His poems in England have appeared in diverse magazines and been broadcast on BBC Radio 3. He lives in Devon, is married to the artist Elizabeth Baxendale and has two daughters.

2nd Prize £1000 Rosaleen Croghan, Oxford. "Myself and W.B.Yeats Fall Out with One Another"

Rosaleen was born in Oxford of Irish parents and lives in Cowley. She has published in various magazines including Fire, Orbis and The North. She was a first stage winner in the Poetry Business competition of 1994, with her collection Our Childhood Houses. She currently works part-time as a research assistant in the Psychology Department at the Open University. She has two children.

3rd Prize £500 Simon Crowcroft, St Helier, Jersey. "Compulsory Showers"

Simon was born in 1958, took his degree in English at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and taught English before starting a language school in Jersey in 1991. Following the injury of his son in a road traffic incident, he wrote and self-published a pamphlet of poems on the impact of cars on society. He was elected to the Island's Parliament in 1996. Since 1999 he has been president of the committee responsible, among other matters, for transport policy. He is married with four children between 5 and 18. He also writes plays, three of which have been performed locally.

Supplementary Prizes - £50 Each :-

Ingrid Cole, Esbjerg, Denmark. "Look at us Laughing
Tim Willmott, Bristol. "At Last"
Clare Morgan, Dinas Mawddwy, Gwynedd. "Country Marriage"
Tim Bowling, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. "Pennies on the Sidewalk"
Philip Gross, Bristol. "The Kingdom of the Corrugated"
Cahal Dallat, London. "Difference"
Brett van Toen, London. "The Streatham Lads"
Patricia Leighton, Bromsgrove, Worcs. "Reporting an Empty Sacrifice"
Francis Thompson, Ilfracombe, Devon. "Looking for My Mother in Marks and Spencer and Finding Her"
Laurence Cooper, Coventry. "Friendship"

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