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Bristol Short Story Prize
The 2012 Bristol Short
Story Prize is now open.
Stories can be entered online (
https://www.bristolprize.co.uk/online-entry.html ) or by
post (
http://www.bristolprize.co.uk/postal-entry.html ). The closing
date for entries is 31st March 2012. Please read
the rules and competition details before entering.
First prize is £1,000. 20 stories will be published in the Bristol
Short Story Prize Anthology Volume 5. The winning story will, also, be
published in Bristol Review of Books and Venue magazine. The 2012
Bristol Short Story Prize awards ceremony will be the final event of our
2nd ShortStoryVille festival which will be held next July.
The 2012 judging panel will be chaired by former Random House editor,
Ali Reynolds, who now runs her own Literary Consultancy in Bristol.
Ali will be joined on the panel by the writer broadcaster and critic,
Bidisha, Anna Britten, writer and contributing editor to Venue magazine,
and the celebrated novelist, Chris Wakling, whose latest novel ‘What I
Did’ was published by John Murray in September. Ali Reynolds says: “I'm
thrilled to be chairing the judging panel for the 2012 Bristol Short
Story Prize. Over the last few years the prize has celebrated diverse,
heart-wrenching and powerful stories of such high calibre and I'm
certain 2012 will build on this success. It will be a joy and a
privilege to be involved in a prize with such international scope.”
We are very grateful to Arts Council England who are providing
funding support for the 2012 Bristol Short Story Prize and
ShortStoryVille festival.
2012 Rules and Prize
Details
20 stories will be shortlisted for the first prize.
The 20 shortlisted writers will be invited to an awards ceremony in
Bristol on July 14th 2012 when the winners will be announced and the
BSSP Anthology Volume 5 will be launched. Prizes and anthologies will be
sent to any shortlisted writer unable to attend the awards ceremony.
Prizes :
Ist- £1000 plus £150 Waterstone’s gift card
2nd- £700 plus £100 Waterstone’s gift card
3rd- £400 plus £100 Waterstone’s gift card
The other 17 writers who feature on the shortlist will receive £100.
All 20 shortlisted stories will be published in both print and ebook
versions of Volume 5 of the Bristol Short Story Prize Anthology.
The closing date for entries is March 31st 2012.
The maximum number of words for each story is 3,000.
There is an entry fee of £7
for each story submitted.
Stories can be on any theme or subject and are welcome in any style
including graphic, verse or genre-based (crime, thriller, science
fiction, fantasy, romance, historical etc.).
While there is a maximum word count of 3,000, it should be pointed
out that there is no minimum.
Rules
1. Closing date for receipt of entries is 31st March 2012
at midnight BST.
2. Entrants must be over 16 years old.
3. The maximum length of submissions is 3,000 words. There is no
minimum length. Stories can be on any theme or subject and are welcome
in any style whether it be graphic, verse or genre-based (Crime, Science
Fiction, Fantasy, Historical, Romance, Children's etc..) .
4. Entries can be made
online
or by post. There is no geographical restriction on entry- the
Bristol Short Story Prize is open to everyone, whether they are based in
the UK or outside the UK. All entries should be in English.
Postal entries will only be accepted as printed typescripts. There are
no specific formatting requirements - writers may format their work in
the way they feel is most appropriate. Please send postal entry/entries
to : Bristol Short Story Prize, Unit 5.16, Paintworks, Bath Road Bristol
BS4 3EH
5. Authors may enter as many stories as they like. There is a fee of
£7.00 for each story
submitted. Payment for online entries should be made via the website.
Payment for postal entries should be made by cheque. Cheque payments
must be in pounds sterling and cheques should be made payable to
‘Bristol Short Story Prize Ltd.’. Each postal submission must be
accompanied by an entry form.
6. Entries will not be returned. Please keep a copy. No corrections
or alterations can be made after receipt.
7. Entries must be entirely the work of the entrant and must never
have been previously published, in print or online (including websites,
blogs, social network sites), or broadcast or been commended, longlisted
or shortlisted in another writing competition. Any entry found to have
been plagiarised will be disqualified. Simultaneous submissions are
welcome - but please let us know as soon as possible if a story is to be
published elsewhere or has won a prize or been longlisted or shortlisted
in another writing competition.
8. Entries will be read and judged anonymously; entrants names should
only appear on the entry form and not anywhere on their stories/manuscripts.
The stories/manuscripts must be free of all personal information about
the author. This includes age and address.
9. If you require acknowledgement of receipt of your postal entry
then please enclose a stamped addressed postcard marked ACKNOWLEDGEMENT.
Online entries will be acknowledged by email.
10. All entrants must agree to have their work published in the
Bristol Short Story Prize Anthology Volume 5, in both print and ebook
formats, should they be one of the authors of the 20 shortlisted
stories. Authors will retain worldwide copyright on their work (including
film and dramatic rights) but Bristol Short Story Prize has first
publication rights to publish the 20 shortlisted stories in the Bristol
Short Story Prize Anthology Volume 5, in both print and ebook formats.
All entrants must, also, agree to have their story published in Bristol
Review of Books magazine and Venue magazine if their story wins the 2012
Bristol Short Story Prize.
11. Each of the shortlisted authors will receive 2 free copies of the
print version of Bristol Short Story Prize Anthology Volume 5 and will
be able to purchase further copies at a discount of 50%. Any profit
from the sale of the BSSP Anthology Vol. 5 will go towards developing
ShortStoryVille, our short story festival, our schools' projects and
funding help for the Bristol Review of Books.
12. No competitor may win more than one prize. Entries will be
read by a panel of professional publishers, reviewers and published
writers. They will select a longlist of 40 for the named judging panel.
The judging panel will select the 20 stories to be published in the
Bristol Short Story Prize Anthology Volume 5 and the top 3 prize winning
stories. The judges decision is final and no individual correspondence
will be entered into. Judges or readers are unable to comment on
individual entries.
13. Prizes for 2012 are: 1st-£1000 plus £150 Waterstone’s Gift
Card, 2nd -£700 plus £100 Waterstone’s Gift Card, 3rd -£400 plus £100
Waterstone’s Gift Card. Each of the 17 remaining shortlisted finalists
will receive a cheque for £100.
14. Prizes will be awarded on 14th July 2012 and will be sent to any
of the 20 finalists who are unable to attend the awards ceremony.
Entrants will not be contacted individually about the competition
results unless they are selected for the shortlist. The 2012 longlist
and shortlist will be posted on the BSSP website. The longlist will be
posted on the BSSP website towards the end of May 2012 and the shortlist
will be posted on the BSSP website by June 15th. The list of prize-winners
will be displayed on the website within one week after the awards
ceremony.
15. Any entrant wishing to withdraw a story from the competition
before the closing date of midnight (BST) March 31st 2012 will receive a
full refund. Please contact us by email. We will not be able to refund
any withdrawn stories after the closing date of midnight (BST) March
31st 2012.
16. Entry implies an acceptance of all the Bristol Short Story Prize
rules. Entries that fail to comply with the entry rules and requirements
will be disqualified.
We can be contacted in the following ways
Please send us an email in the first instance. Please use the form below
to send us an email. Our email address is:
enquiries@bristolprize.co.uk
Bristol Short Story Prize Ltd.
Unit 5.16, Paintworks,
Bath Road,
Bristol
BS4 3EH |
