Bridport Prize 2002 - Short Story Prizewinners. Judge :-
Tobias Hill
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| Judges short story
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| 1st Prize £3000 Lynsey White, Norwich,
Norfolk."Amore" |
| Lynsey is a full time mother and lives in Norfolk. She
studied English at Manchester Uni and stayed on there for a few
more years before moving down to London. She has had a number of
short-term jobs, mostly secretarial, in various places including
a law firm, a virtual office and the trading floor of a major
finance company. Lynsey moved to Norfolk shortly before her
daughter was born. She has always written, but rarely finishes
anything. Bridport Prize is the first award that she has won for
her writing. |
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| 2nd Prize £1000 William Palmer, London. "Connections
with Royalty" |
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William was born in 1945 and educated in England and Wales at
too many schools. He worked at a variety of jobs in industry
until 1987, when he became a full-time writer. William has taught
Creative Writing at several institutions. At present RLF Writing
Fellow at the University of Birmingham.
William has published several novels including 'A Good Republic',
Leporello', 'The Contract', 'Four Last Things' and 'The Pardon of
Saint Anne'. |
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| 3rd Prize £500 Ashley Stokes, Norwich, Norfolk "The
Suspicion of Bones" |
Ashley Stokes was born in 1970 and was educated at St Anne's
College, Oxford and the University of East Anglia, where he took
an MA in Creative Writing. He teaches creative writing at UEA and
for The Open College of the Arts.
He has already published various stories and written book reviews
for The Guardian, the TLS, the Daily
Telegraph, and The Big Issue. He is currently writing
a novel and co-writing a screen play. |
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Supplementary Prizes - £50 Each :-
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| Julie Hayman, London. "Brought Safely Home" |
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Julie was born in Weymouth but now lives near Bath. She spent
a number of years as a full time wife and mother before returning
to college as an undergraduate. She recently gained a first-class
honours degree in English Literature and Creative Writing, and is
currently studying towards an MA in Creative Writing at Bath Spa
University College. She recently travelled to the Arctic, and
would like next to visit the Antarctic. Her interests include
Polar Literature and dogs.
Julie has been shortlisted for other short story competitions and
awards and won third prize in the Wrekin Writers Competition
1998. |
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| Francesca Main, Dorset "Rose" |
| Francesca graduated this summer with a first class honours
degree in English Literature and Creative Writing from the
University of Warwick. During her time at university she was
fortunate enough to meet and work with a wide range of writers
including Jonathan Coe, Maureen Freely, Maggie O'Farrell and
Mario Vargos Llosa. she spent a summer working in Boston,
Massachusetts and has travelled throughout Europe and New
England. Francesca now lives in London and has begun her first
novel. |
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| Claire Collison, London "Peppermint Creams" |
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Claire has been a photographic artist for the past fifteen
years. This led to art journalism, first as arts editor for
Disability Arts Magazine, then as sub editor for Make. More
recently she has worked freelance, copywriting and writing
articles for the British Journal of Photography. Claire won the
Women's Own Short Story Competition in 2000 and this gave her the
confidence to focus on her writing and photography has taken a
backseat while she concentrates on writing a novel. |
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| Andrew Lloyd-Jones, London "Lay-by" |
| Andrew was born in 1971 and grew up in Anchorage, Alaska. He
studied English Literature at the University of York, and writes
for an advertising agency in central London. His first short
story was published last year in the Canongate Prize for new
Writing anthology, 'Original Sins'. He is currently working on a
novel. |
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| Janey Runci, Australia "Black Wedding" |
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Janey lives in Melbourne, Australia, where she teaches
Fiction Writing in the Professional Writing and Editing Course at
the Centre for Adult Education. She has a number of short stories
published in Australian literary journals and magazines,
including Meanjin, Fine Line, and Austalasian
Post, and an anthology, Red Hot Notes. She received a
Writing Project Grant from the Australia Council and is currently
working on a novel. |
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| Mark Dennis, London "Mr Chalk and Mr Cheese" |
Mark was born in 1974 in Cheshire. After studying archaeology
at Exeter and York Universities, he worked and travelled round
the world for thirteen months. Having made his way through an
array of jobs including archaeolist, dish washer, postman and
cheese packer, he now works for Dorling Kindersley publishers and
lives in London.
Besides winning the London Writers Competition Short Story Promis
Prize in 2000, Mark has had short stories published in magazines
and written screenplays. |
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| Joanna Backhouse, Somerset "Nicking" |
| Joanna was born in Kent in 1964. She studied creative writing
during her degree in Fine Art in the 1980's. She then taught
English overseas and then at inner city schools in Birmingham.
Joanna had always wanted to start writing again and two years ago
started writing short stories. She is a student on this years MA
Course in Creative Writing at Bath Spa. Joanna lives in Somerset
with her husband and four children and is working on her first
novel. |
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| Lynn Stegner, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA "Little
Penis" |
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Lynn has written three books -- the novels,
Undertow(1993) and Fata Morgana (1995), both
nominated for the National Book Award, and most recently a
novella triptych entitled Pipers at the Gates of Dawn. She
has also written a number of nonfiction essays and articles. The
novellas have received several honors, including the Faulkner
Society's Gold Medal for Best Novella. Last year the National
Endowment for the Arts granted her a Literature Fellowship, and
she has been awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to Ireland this year
in support of a novel in progress. Ms. Stegner has taught fiction
writing at the University of California and at the University of
Vermont. She divides her time between Vermont and the Western
United States, and is currently living in New Mexico. |
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| Morgan McDermott, Chicago, USA "ClearCoat" |
| Morgan teaches creative writing at Adlai E. Stevenson High
School. Most recently his short stories have received the 2002 H.
E. Francis Award from the Ruth Hindman Foundation, The Nebraska
Review 2002 Award, the 2002 One Story Magazine Prize, the 2002
River City Award and the Tobia Wolff award. He resides on the
North Shore of Chicago with his new bride, Wendy Parks. |
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Bridport Prize 2002 - Poetry Prizewinners. Judge : - Jo
Shapcott
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| Judges poetry
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| 1st Prize £3000 Christopher James, London "Walking
Southward on O'Connell Street" |
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Christopher, 27, is a graduate of Newcastle University and
holds an MA in Creative Writing from the UEA. He has been
published in various magazines and anthologies, including
Catapult, Reactions, Weyfarers, and
Staple New Writing and is currently working on a first
collection. He also writes songs, including the book and lyrics
for a musical Advice from the Bar. Since completing his MA
course in Norwich, he has lived in Darlington, Leeds and London
where he now works as a children's book editor. In June 2002 he
was a recipient of an Eric Gregory Award from the Society of
Authors. |
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2nd Prize £1000 Helen Partridge, Cornwall "Four
lessons in falling"
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| Helen is a writer, mountain bike guide and successful
adventure racer. She recently gave up an academic career to study
for a Creative Writing masters at Bath Spa University, where her
tutor was Philip Gross. Helen is one of a number of pen names she
has adopted to express the different poetic voices that compete
for her attention. She is currently completing a Cornish
Bestliary - a sequence of poems exploring the human and other
fauna of her adopted home county. One of her other selves is
(naturally) working on a novel. |
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3rd Prize £500 James Manlow, Bedfordshire "The
Dressing"
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James was born in Hertfordshire in 1978. He graduated from
the University of Derby, with BA in English Literature and
Experience of Writing in 1999. He recently completed MA in
Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia. James has just
started his first job in publishing.
He has had several poems published in various magazines and a
first pamphlet - collection is due to be published by Glass Head
Press in January 2003. |
Supplementary Prizes - £50 Each :-
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| Deborah Trayhurn, Wirral "You Ask to Read My
Work!" |
| Deborah was born in 1948 and she originally trained as a
painter. She worked on and off as a teacher whilst moving at
quite frequent intervals with her four children. After time in
Oxford and Cambridge she moved to Canada. Later in Scotland she
won the poetry section of N.E. writing competition and was runner
up in the Nithsdale Burns Festival. She was also a finalist in
the Scottish Open International in 2001. Now, she is still trying
to make sense of things through writing poetry and has settled
for some time to come in the Wirral. |
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| Andr"é" Mangeot, Cambridge "Blood and
Sand" |
Andre Mangeot lives in Cambridge, working as fundraising
manager for a large regional charity. His poems and short stories
have appeared in The Times Literary Supplement, London
Magazine, Daily Express, Blade, The Dark Horse and many other
magazines in the UK and America. Sponsored by East England Arts
he completed an Artists in Education training course in
1999/2000 and has worked as a poet in primary schools.
A selection of his work is due from Shoestring Press in
2003. |
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| Leo Aylen, Wiltshire "Belfast Incident" |
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Leo was born in KwaZulu, South Africa, holds a first in
Classics from Oxford and a Ph.D in Drama from Bristol University.
He broadcasts his poems regularly on BBC R3 and R4, has appeared
in theatres and on radio and television on three continents and
in venues ranging from the Royal Albert Hall to New York night
clubs and in front of 3000 Zulus on an open hillside. Leo has
made a number of films for television as writer-director,
nominated for a BAFTA award and co-wrote a movie. He has won a
number of prizes including the Arvon in 1991 and 1998. |
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| Tiffany Atkinson, Aberystwyth, Wales "Umami" |
| Tiffany is a lecturer in the Department of English at
Abertstwyth University. She is currently working on an academic
monograph and a first collection of poetry. she has had poems
published in Poetry Now, Sampler, The Telegraph and New
Writing II (Picador, 2002) and New Welsh Review, and
was winner of the 2001 Academi Cardiff International Poetry
Competition. |
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| Bruce Barnes, Bradford "The Necklace" |
| Bruce was born in London, spent most of his working life
there, and now lives in Bradford. He currently works part time
for a mental health charity. He won a Yorkshire Arts Writers
Award in 2000 and is now working on his second collection of
poetry, 'Somewhere Else'. He is a former member of the Blue nose
Poetry Collective, and is joint co-ordinator of the Bradford
Poetry Workshop. in 1999 and 2000 he toured Southern Texas with
members of the Interchange writers group. |
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| Roisin Tierney, London "Feet" |
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Roisin was born in Dublin in 1963 and educated at University
College Dublin where she took her degree in psychology and
philosophy.
Since 1985 she has lived in London, and worked in a wide variety
of areas, ranging from a theatrical make-up artist to an arts
administrator and fundraiser. She currently works at The British
Museum and is also actively involved in the organic farming
movement.
Her poetry has been published in Poetry Street, Moonstone,
Redbrick Review (NY), Poetry Life and Northwoods. |
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| Celia de Fréine, Dublin, Ireland"A Strange Kettle
of Fish" |
| Celia was born in the North of Ireland and now lives in
Dublin and in Connemara. Her poetry has won several awards,
including the Patrick Kavanagh Award, the Comórtas
Filiochta Dhún Laoghaire Award, the British
Comparative Literature Association Translation Award and Duais
Aitheantais Ghradam Litriochta Chló Iar-Chonnachta.
She is the recipient of two Arts Council Bursaries. |
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| Jane Draycott, Berkshire "Boy" |
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Jane's Prince Rupert's Drop (OUP/Carcanet) was a PBS
Recommendation and shortlisted for the Forward Poetry Prize. With
poet Lesley Saunders and artist Peter Hay she is co-author of
Christina the Astonishing (Two Rivers Press). An earlier
short collection No Theatre (Smith/Doorstop) was
shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Collection. Currently
poet-in-residence at Henley's River and Rowing Museum, her new
collection Tideway (Two rivers Press) was published in
August this year, with watercolours by Peter Hay. |
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| Dr Frank Tapiador, Birmingham "On the state of the quantum
theory" |
| Frank is 29 and works as research scientist in the University
of Birmingham. He loves his job and also writing. His heterodox
background includes a Ph.D. in Physics, a MSc in Geography and a
degree in Philosophy and Arts. Before settling in the Midlands,
he published poetry and short tales in Spanish after struggling
for a while about whether to follow Borges' experience and only
read, or write as well. He enjoys flying a Cessna Skyhawk, taking
coastal drives and listening to Glass and Monteverdi. |
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| Ronald Tampin, Ankara, Turkey "Acceptance" |
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Ronald was born in London of mixed Irish and English
parentage. He now lives in Exeter, where for many years he taught
English, American and Commonwealth Literature at the University,
before retiring early in 1989 to concentrate on his writing. Much
of his writing has been and remains academic but his main
concentration is on his poetry. His poems and translations have
been published widely in magazines in the UK and abroad, as well
as in anthologies, and on the BBC. Ronald has won several prizes
including the Eugene Lee-Hamilton Prize and The City of
Winchester John Keats Bi-Centennial 'To Autumn' Prize 1995 |
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| Rachel Warrington, Dorset "Nothing moves under a sky
locked grey" |
Rachel has just graduated from Gonville and Caius College,
Cambridge, with a first class BA Hons in English Literature. Born
in Dorset, she lives in Uploders, near Bridport, and whilst at
school was encouraged by success in the Junior Bridport Prize
writing competition. Currently working in Cambridge, she hopes to
continue writing and to spend time in Italy, learning Italian in
order to study for an MA in the near future.
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