Bridport Prize 2006 - Short Story Prizewinner's. Judge :- Jane Gardam

1st Prize £5000 Elizabeth Dalton, New York, USA. "Rue de Vaugirard"

Although I was born in New York City, I've lived in many parts of the United States, and also in France. I got a B.A., Honors in English, Phi Beta Kappa, from the University of California at Berkeley, and then studied in France on a Fulbright Scholarship. After two years, I returned to the U. S. and got a Ph.D. in English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University in New York. Until a few years ago I taught literature and creative writing in the English Department at Barnard College, the women's college affiliated with Columbia.

I've had fiction and criticism in The New Yorker, Partisan Review, and other publications. My book, "Unconscious Structure in "The Idiot,'" a psychoanalytic study of the Dostoevsky novel, was published by Princeton University Press.

I now live in Manhattan. My 27-year-old son, Matthew, who is a journalist, lives in Brooklyn. Now that I am no longer teaching, I want to devote my time to writing, especially - with the encouragement of the Bridport Prize - to writing fiction.

2nd Prize £1000 Katharine Braddick, London. "Cold Weather"

Katharine Braddick was born in Hertfordshire and grew up there and in Brussels. After studying at the universities of Warwick and Cambridge she moved to London, and now works at the Financial Services Authority. She has completed two novels, both unpublished, and also has an interest in film theory and criticism - she runs a blog, http://takingcarltothepictures.blogspot.com/ , on popular film and Jungian theory. 'Cold Weather' is her first published fiction.

3rd Prize £500 Kerry Swash, France. "Glad"

Since graduating from London College of Communications with an MA in Screenwriting Kerry has had interest in two of her feature scripts.
Hoping to find more time to write she recently moved to SW France where she is involved in setting up rural studio and workshop space designed to encourage opportunity and interest in les beaux arts.

Supplementary Prizes (alphabetical order) - £50 Each:-

Zac Barker, New York, USA. "Feeding Time"

Born 17th January 1978 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Educated in France, England and US. Un-employed.

Jon Bauer, Melbourne, Australia. "Running Around Without a God in their Hearts"

Jon stumbled across his passion for short fiction two years ago whilst working as an advertising copywriter - secretly tapping away at stories during the lulls in his workload (and some of the busy times). Now a writer all of the time and a copywriter none of the time, he lives in Melbourne with his imaginary wife and kids.

Andrew Craigs, Bristol. "Metal"

Andrew Craigs was born at the East End of Hadrian's Wall in 1964 (it was a Saturday and he had to sit in a bucket as there were no baths left). Since then, he has lived and spent time in North Wales, Bristol, Exeter, Canada and Eastern Europe, (with and without baths) before returning to live on the North East coast.
Most people call him Alfie, short for Alphabet, as his initials are A B C.
He accidentally graduated in Drama from the University of Bangor and has spent the last twenty years working as a writer and director in theatre of various stripes. He has also worked as a lecturer in theatre devising and theatre history for numerous colleges in the South West.
He has always written and collected stories.
He is currently working on a collection of interconnected short stories about sheets and a novel about washing.

Mischa Hiller, Cambridge. "The Sandwich"

Mischa grew up in Durham, London, Beirut, Dar El-Salaam and Brighton. He has written one novel based on his Beirut experiences and is completing a second, a thriller. He has also adapted his first novel into a screenplay. He has, however, only written one short story, but now plans to write more. Most of the time he is a self-employed IT consultant so that he can pay the mortgage, play poker with his friends, and keep his boys in trainers. He lives in Cambridge with his family and a slightly whiffy dog.

Greg Hrbek, Saipan & USA. "The Cliffs at Marpi"

Greg Hrbek is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop. His first novel, The Hindenburg Crashes Nightly, has been published in the US, France, and Norway. His short fiction and non-fiction has appeared in Harper's, Salmagundi, and the Idaho Review. He lives with his wife and son in the Northern Mariana Islands, and teaches part of the year at Skidmore College in Upstate New York.

Elizabeth Koch, New York, USA. "Under the Table"

Elizabeth Koch graduated from Princeton in 1999 and received her MFA in creative writing from The New School in New York City in 2004, thesis pending. Since moving to New York in the fall of '99, she has worked as an assistant editor for Elle magazine, an editor/writer for digitalcity.com, a researcher/writer for John Stossel and other news journalists, and has published fiction, nonfiction, and humor pieces in a variety of publications. In 2004 she covered the Martha Steward trial for Reason magazine, and for the last two years has worked as a freelance editor for novelists, short fiction writers, and nonfiction authors, including John Stossel. She is currently working on a collection of short fiction, and is the Executive Editor of a literary humor publication called Opium. She lives in San Francisco.

Richard Lambert, Bristol, "Turtles"

Richard Lambert was born in London in 1971. He has lived in Bristol for 12 years. Richard completed his second novel this summer and he wants to find a literary agent. He hopes that being a runner-up in the Bridport will help him in his search!

Annie McDowall, Surrey. "Phantoms"

Annie is forty nine. She lives in south London with her partner, two cats, and a garden full of loose bowelled foxes. She wrote her first novella at the age of eight. The Adventures of Bolomokey Island has yet to be published. Creative writing became overshadowed by the constraints of university dissertations and business writing. Julia Cameron's The Artist's Way, a workshop with VG Lee in York, and evening classes with Leone Ross at the City Lit in London sparked Annie's imagination, and now writing is an important part of her life. Her short story Going, Going.. was published on the PitWit website in 2006. Annie is chief executive of a voluntary organisation in south London.

Geraldine Ryan, County Durham. "Me and the Motorway"

Graduate of Bath Spa University College with a first class honours degree in English and Creative Writing. Writer in Residence at HMP Rye Hill since October 2005 and Creative Writing tutor for the Open College of Arts. First novel near to completion. Spend most of my time writing in a caravan in the middle of nowhere.

Deborah Willis, Victoria BC, Canada. "Caught"

Deborah Willis grew up in Calgary, Alberta, and moved to British Columbia to study at the University of Victoria. She recently completed a degree in literature and she currently works as a bookseller in Victoria, Canada's almost-British city.
I've published fiction in the Canadian literary journals Event Magazine and Grain Magazine. Also, my story "Vanishing" won this year's fiction contest in Prism International.

Bridport Prize Short Story Long List (no particular order)

	Title	Name		Title	Name
1	Flash Photography	Alison Carter, West Sussex,UK	20	A Lifelong Love of Learning	Emma Kelly, Winchester, UK
2	Fingernail Dances	David Cobb, Essex UK	21	Romance Languages	Deborah Willis, Victoria BC, Canada
3	Port Bou	Polly Tuckett, Brighton UK	22	The Fruit Fly	Chris Killen, Warwickshire, UK
4	Any Deadly Thing	Roy Kesey, Beijing, China	23	The Lych-Warmer	Vanessa Gebbie, East Sussex, UK
5	The Wolves and the Howling Wilderness	Simeon Shoul, London UK	24	Death in the Woods	Jonathan Page, Cambridge, UK
6	Belson	Pat Winslow, Oxfordshire, UK	25	Strawberry Picking	Andy Seale, London, UK
7	Voiceover	Lisa Sabbage, London, UK	26	M_ST_KE	Sid Langley, Northants, UK
8	Gilbert Gillinwater Was Here	Eileen Church Riley, London, UK	27	The Princess and the Showman	Petricia Middleton, France
9	Bandstand in the Rain	Huw Lawrence, Aberystwyth, Wales, UK	28	And all the while knowing	Jan Hargreaves, Stockport, UK
10	The Man in the Luxembourg Gardens	Stephanie Pribil, Canberra, Australia	29	The Body of the Father of Daoud	Selma Dabbagh, Bahrain
11	Love: The Rough Travel Guide	Cheryl Alu, LA, USA	30	The Day She Comes For Her Things: The Survival Guide	Michael Hulme, Norwich, UK
12	Calling the Engineer	Katherine Hannaford, London, UK	31	Slow Thursdays Amongst the Cabbage Roses	Ellie Phillips, London, UK
13	Movement	Ben Hinshaw, London, UK	32	Working Late	Kathy Page, Canada
14	Precipitation	Jon Bauer, West Sussex, UK	33	Stories	Eddie Wilson, London, UK
15	A hole full of butterflies	Rosalind Corfe, Bath, UK	34	The Goldrush	Louis Malloy, Nottingham, UK
16	The Excavation	Anne Tillyer, London, UK	35	Mines	Linda Ruhemann, Abergavenny, Wales, UK
17	The Exiles	Susan O'Connor, Liverpool, UK	36	Left-handed jumpers	Peter Blair, Chester, UK
18	Bones	Julie Stradner, Cambridge, UK UK	37	Funny Time of Year	Andrew Lloyd-Jones, London, UK
19	Such Games	Cheryl Moskowitz, London, UK

Bridport Prize 2006 - Poetry Prizewinner's. Judge : - Lavinia Greenlaw

Judges poetry report

1st Prize £5000 Anthony Snider Wilmington, USA. "Panegyric"

A native of North Carolina, Anthony Snider lives in Wilmington, NC, where he works for the NC Coastal Reserve managing research reserves on barrier islands. He completed his MFA in Creative Writing from Vermont College in July 2006. He formerly held a faculty position teaching environmental policy at the University of Minnesota which he left to focus on poetry. He is currently putting the finishing touches on his first book length collection of poems. He spends his spare time kayaking in salt marshes.

2nd Prize £1000 Joel Toledo, Quezon City, Philippines. "The Same Old Figurative"

Joel M. Toledo is a faculty member at the English Department of Miriam College in Quezon City, Philippines. He won first prize for the Poetry in English category of the Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature in 2005 for his collection, “What Little I Know of Luminosity.” He placed second in the same category in 2004 for the collection, “Literature and Other Poems”. He was the recipient of the Philippines’ 2005 National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) Writer’s Prize for poetry, a grant for the possible publication of his first book of poems. In 2005, he was runner-up in the San Francisco-based Meritage Press Holiday Poetry Prize for the poem, “Save As Draft”. He graduated with a Masters Degree in Creative Writing at the University of the Philippines, where he also took up B.A. English (Creative Writing) and B.A. Communication (Journalism). He plays the drums for the local rock band, Los Chupacabras. He is 34 years old and living in Quezon City, Philippines with his wife April and kids Red and Moira.

3rd Prize £500 Jonathan Hadwen, Enoggera, Queensland, Australia. "she took a fall"

Jonathan lives in Brisbane, Australia. Dividing his time between attending art classes, working as a web-developer for a University, and writing, Jon's life is devoted to his family, his girlfriend and their little black dog.
One poem will be published in the 2006 anthology of entries into the Henry Kendall Poetry Award.

Supplementary Prizes (alphabetical order) - £50 Each :-

Isabel Ashdown, Chichester, West Sussex. "Milk and Eggs"

Isabel Ashdown lives and writes from the makeshift office of her Victorian home in West Sussex. She grew up in a provincial seaside village on the south coast of England, from which she now draws many of her creations, including her runner-up poem, 'Milk and Eggs'. The Bridport Prize is her first award for poetry. Having spent 15 years working for companies such as Virgin and The Body Shop, Isabel left her job in senior management to pursue her literary ambitions. She is now in the final year of a creative writing degree at Chichester University, which boasts a number of previous Bridport winners amongst its staff. Isabel shares her life with her carpenter husband and two young children.

Helen Carr, Carmarthenshire. "Supermarket Girl"

Born in Swansea 1951. Read English at University of Leeds '69-'72. I was a teacher in Steiner Waldorf Schools for several inspiring years. I now live in Carmarthenshire, where I teach young adults with special needs in a Camphill community. I have written, intermittently, throughout my life. Over the past two years I have committed myself to writing regularly, and to sending my work out into the world to seek its fortune.

Claudia Daventry, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. "Perspective"

Claudia Daventry was born in London and read a lot of English books while she was supposed to be studying French and Spanish. After being at the same distinguished Oxford college as W.H. Auden (though not at the same time) and getting the same undistinguished degree result, it should have been clear that poetry was the way forward. However, she ignored these signs for far too long and worked instead as a copywriter, extra in a kung-fu movie, production-line worker and singer in a Catalan blues band. At the moment she lives in Amsterdam, where she writes, teaches, translates, runs after her children and performs her poetry. Even though her work has appeared in the international lit mag Versal, she is not as good as W. H Auden.

Sarah Davies, Bedford. "First Time Mum"

I was born in New Brighton, Wirral - the greatest 'seaside resort of the future' that never was. From this I gained my love of the British seaside, the sea and fairgrounds. I started writing when I was about 6 - my first poem was recited proudly in front of my grandparents and featured a 'velvet-pawed' tiger who 'tortured a rabbit and killed a hare' - cheery stuff! I was always in love with the power of words. I think it was the potential in poetry for startling imagery that appealed, possibly a result of both parents (and brother) being involved in the visual arts. One of my regrets is that I don't (or can't) draw.

I went on to study English at Edinburgh University, then Communications at London College of Printing and somehow ended up working in Multimedia and Learning design. In my 20s I stopped writing, but started again a few years ago and now it is an important part of my life. I live with my long term partner Roy, and my baby daughter Jenny Miranda who is utterly beautiful and whose arrival has transformed everything. Looking after her though, does mean that at the moment, writing and more importantly editing as much as I'd like is pretty difficult; though my goal in the next year is to hone and submit as much as I can for publication.

At the moment, I live in Bedford -- I'd still like to be near the sea but sadly, am as far away from the coast as I can get in England.

Christopher James, Suffolk. "The Light Age"

Christopher James has won the Ledbury and Bridport Poetry Prizes and in 2002 was a recipient of an Eric Gregory from the Society of Authors. His first collection, the Invention of Butterfly was launched this year and is available from www.raggedraven.co.uk 'James' ability to develop an original idea, character or place is remarkable, and he writes on the sure foundation of a genuine talent (Will Daunt, Envoi 144) New poems have also appeared in Smiths Knoll, Poetry Nottingham and The Rialto.

Cynthia Kitchen, Lancs. "Deflations in Sad Weather

I am married with one son and have been writing and having poetry published since the 1980's.
I am a primary school teacher by profession but am now semi retired and draw my inspiration from Morecambe Bay, Cumbria.
Publications are in a range of magazines and I have been a prize winner and runner up in various competition anthologies including Manchester, Chester, Lancaster, Ver Poets Open Competition and Staple Anthology.
I have been featured on B.B.C Radio Merseyside and my first collection is due from Headland Publications in 2007.

Shaun Levin, London. "Invocation"

Shaun Levin’s collection of short stories, A Year of Two Summers, was published in 2005. A novella, Seven Sweet Things, was published in 2003. His short stories appear in anthologies as diverse as Modern South African Stories, Does the Sun Rise Over Dagenham, Gay Times Book of Short Stories, and The Slow Mirror: New Fiction by Jewish Writers. He has been writer-in-residence in a school, a theatre, a bookshop, and on the island of Tasmania. He is the editor of Chroma: A Queer Literary Journal.

Devon McC Jackson, Sante Fe, New Mexico. "Waxwing Bohemians"

Born in the South (Nashville) and more or less raised in the Southwest (Albuquerque), went to college in the East (Columbia University). I have an MFA in fiction from The New School (class of 1998). I'm a freelance writer. I've written for The New York Times, Smithsonian, Vanity Fair and Outside magazine, among other newspapers and magazines.

John Okrent, New York, USA. "To Friday Evening"

This is my first time sending out my poetry. I was born and raised in Worthington, MA, and then raised some more in New York, NY. Now I live in Brooklyn and work as a caregiver at a daycare center in Manhattan. I am in the process of applying to medical school.

Janet Ward, New York, USA. "99¢ Dream"

Janet Ward has been writing poems since seventh grade, when the Beats swept her off her feet and she saw the light of language for the first time. She went on to study with Ron Koertge, Stephen Ratcliffe, and Chana Bloch. In addition, Frank O'Hara, e.e.cummings, the city of New York, John Donne, jazz, Emily Dickinson, and Samuel Beckett continue to wield their influence over her work.
In 2002, she entered one poem into a competition for the first time. Out of over 6,000 entries, she emerged as one of three winners in that contest and subsequently appeared at an event held at Symphony Space in New York City, where she read her poem and shared the stage with Gerald Stern, Sharon Olds, Paul Muldoon, Sandra Cisneros, and Nikki Giovanni, who personally selected her poem, "change," as the adult winner of the 10th Anniversary Poetry-In-Motion Contest, co-sponsored by the Poetry Society of America and the MTA. From May through October of 2003, "change" appeared on New York City buses and subways, and in August, Ms. Ward was invited to read her poems at Cornelia Street Café in Greenwich Village. She continues to give readings in New York City. Her poem, "nonetogram," appears in the liner notes of the Alan Ferber Nonet jazz album, "Scenes From An Exit Row," released in June 2005 on Fresh Sound Records.
Janet Ward lives and writes in New York City, where she also works as an actress and a secretary.

Bridport Prize Poetry Long List

	Title	Name		Title	Name
1	Legacy, 1946	Lucy Anderson, Northampton, UK	57	The things that matter	Tim Ellis, Harrogate, UK
2	Vanitas: a Double Sonnet on Duplicity	Ellie Madden, Bridport, UK	58	The Poet's Hands	Melanie Steynberg, Australia
3	In Vino Verity	Jane Dickers, Shetland, UK	59	Waking to Dream	Graham Nutbrown, Bristol, UK
4	We get to the end	Linda Rogers, Victoria BC, Canada	60	Hills of Loch Currane	Stuart Ryder, Southampton, UK
5	Free Offer	Catherine Fawcett, Middlesex, UK	61	Liberator	Dennis Stern, USA
6	Building Materials	Michelle Penn, London, UK	62	Pure Energy	John Spencer, London, UK
7	Translation by Bus	John Miller, Reading, UK	63	Bottle Bank	Helen Bannister, Praha, Czech Republic
8	Not Laughing Now	Chris Davies, Herts, UK	64	Apnia	John Leonard, USA
9	For Adults Only	Joan Condon, Bournville, UK	65	"/"	Keith Freeman, York, UK
10	On the way to Tesco's	Muriel Aldt, Bedford, UK	66	After Dinner Dreams	Benjamin Coffer, Herts, UK
11	Marbles	D. K.Angus, Bath, UK	67	Another Vintage Summer	Laurence O'Dwyer, Eire
12	Sea Jellies	Richard Marggraf, Turley	68	Telling George	Tracey Ann Lydon, UK
13	Rain over Parliament Hill	Andrew Miller, Leeds, UK	69	natural hollows	Mary Flanagan, Sweden
14	All Souls' Night	William Palmer, London, UK	70	Is it me?	Alan Smith, France
15	An appreciation of beauty	Linda Snell, Wiltshire, UK	71	Reflection	Harry Newman, New York, USA
16	Big Men	Ann Kelley, St Ives, UK	72	Texts to Heaven	Jenna Weekes, Bournemouth, UK
17	Pumping Iron	Isobel Thrilling, Essex, UK	73	It Was Hove	Donald MacKay, Caithness, UK
18	Danny	Nick Poole, Dorset, UK	74	Too Soon	Jeremy Harman, Toronto, Canada
19	Angel	Michael Newman, Cheltenham, UK	75	Words without sound	Jeremy Harman, Toronto, Canada
20	Clown	Elizabeth Barrett, Sheffield, UK	76	Kitchen lion	Anne Brooke, Surrey, UK
21	Sweet Heart	Mary Woodward, St Albans, UK	77	Veuve Clicquot	Susie Alegre, Warsaw, Poland
22	Ruin	Joel Toledo, Quezon City, The Philippines	78	The Blue Laptop	Susan Keith, LA, USA
23	Softness	Joel Toledo, Quezon City, The Philippines	79	Burnt Toast	Liola Lee, Kent, UK
24	Things I Learned about Bull Kelp	Maureen Harris, Toronto, Canada	80	Paint Brush	Amanda Lynch, Kent, UK
25	Old Persons' Dance	Mollie Russell-Smith, Kent, UK	81	Atlantis	Kevin Summerville, Derbyshire, UK
26	Strawberry Sauce	Sandra Hill, Victoria, Australia	82	Carcass	Jonathan Ayre, Cheshire, UK
27	Nature's Circle	Nigel Malka, Coventry, UK	83	Sestina (from a seaside flat)	Yoshiro Okumura, East Sussex, UK
28	The Man Who Could Hear Hiroshima	Ron Scowcroft, Lancs, UK	84	To Dance	Matt Bright, Oxford, UK
29	Time out of mind	B. Wilson, HMP Dartmoor, UK	85	Neg	Hannah Walker, Norwich, UK
30	A scattering of beetles	C L Harrison, Herts, UK	86	Movable Heart	Sonia Greenfield, Seattle, USA
31	Bicycles	C L Harrison, Herts, UK	87	Windigo	Jacqueline Dennis, Bucks, UK
32	Only Swimmers Beyond This Point	Barry Taylor, Staffs, UK	88	The Washing	Andrew Bratcher, USA
33	Cause	Que Green, London, UK	89	Ems	Susannah Laubscher, Singapore
34	Road Trip	Helena Forsyth, Aberdeenshire, UK	90	Glueing Together a Vase	Christopher Buehiman, USA
35	Word Poker	Lizzie Mole, Brighton, UK	91	Early April (The Company of Birds)	Marjorie Kovacs, Leics, UK
36	Remembering East Anglia June '43	Charles Drummond, Dorset, UK	92	Water Under The Bridge	David Calcutt, West Midlands, UK
37	A Delicacy	Chris Considine, N. Yorks, UK	93	Sappho's Moon	David Calcutt, West Midlands, UK
38	The gorse fields	Michael Henry, Cheltenham, UK	94	Cuckoo	Claudia Daventry, Amsterdam
39	Tongue and groove	Astrid van Baalen, Amsterdam	95	Carmine Red (Bomb in the London Underground)	Jenny Wren, Berks, UK
40	to: merlininmaze@virgin.net	Heather Park, London, UK	96	Cricketing Ants	Heinrich Beindorf, Germany
41	Falling	J D Taylor, York, UK	97	Listening at the Mouth of the Flower	David Gregory, New Zealand
42	Toby	M Parry, Warwickshire, UK	98	Early Friday Night	Don Morrison, New Zealand
43	Place of Safety	Joy Howard, West Yorks, UK	99	Contortionists in love	Vanessa Cross, Bradford, UK
44	Green Fruit	P Jordan, East Sussex, UK	100	Cleavage	Rumjhum Biswas, India
45	The Suit	Julian Stannard, Winchester, UK	101	Green Jell-O	Angela Locke, Cumbria, UK
46	The Cheese Room	Judy Brown, London, UK	102	He had them removed	Jonathan Hadwen, Australia
47	The Holiday	Naomi Foyle, Brighton, UK	103	Mrs Wildebeest	Jane Kelman, Yeovil, UK
48	Rain	Emily Dening, Cambridge, UK	104	Pear on the Frontline	Sarah, London, UK
49	Blizzards	Jerm Curtin, Spain	105	Missing Pieces	Christina Westhead, Derbyshire, UK
50	For Julius Freytag	James Womack, Cambridge, UK	106	Erica Blue Sky	Diane Conmy, USA
51	Keep Your Eye Out H!	S J White, Wiltshire, UK	107	Playing with the dead	Mark Chamberlain, Surrey, UK
52	Portobello Road	D Lascaris, London, UK	108	Allegro Appassionato	Benjamin Morris, Cambridge, UK
53	The Dog	Howard Wright, Northern Ireland	109	Cars Pass	Alesha Racine, Cambridge, UK
54	Postmod:	Patience Agbabi	110	Winchester Bypass	John Kay, Bournemouth, UK
55	To a Bay mare	Louise Stothard, Liverpool, UK, UK	111	Moths and Cocktails	Stephen Duncan, London, UK
56	Autumn's Golden Apples	Richard Maslen, Suffolk, UK

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Bridport Prize 2006 - Short Story Prizewinner's. Judge :- Jane Gardam

Bridport Prize 2006 - Poetry Prizewinner's. Judge : - Lavinia Greenlaw

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