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Edge Hill Short Story Prize
2016 short list announced
ORGANISERS of the Edge Hill Short Story
Prize 2016 have unveiled the shortlist for the annual award which this year,
2016, celebrates its 10th Anniversary.
The Edge Hill Prize remains the only UK based award that recognizes excellence
in a published short story collection. This year has seen established names
competing alongside relative newcomers for the £10,000 main prize, a £1,000
Readers' Prize and an additional category worth £500 acknowledging rising
talents on Edge Hill University's own MA Creative Writing course.
Ailsa Cox, Edge Hill Prize founder and Professor of Short Fiction at Edge Hill
University said distilling the long list of 38 talented entries down to 6
finalists was challenging. "This year has seen some of the strongest
submissions in the ten years this award has been running. The 2016 Edge Hill
Prize finalists will join what is truly a roll call of world-class talent,
including Colm Tóibín, Sarah Hall and Kevin Barry. The judges absolutely have
their work cut out for them in choosing this year's winner from a list that
includes prize winning authors alongside rising talent..." she said.
Cathy Galvin, Founder and Director of The Word Factory, the UK's leading
promoter of excellence in short fiction writing and co-host of the Edge Hill
Prize celebration event said she was thrilled to be on this years' panel.
"It's been wonderful to watch the most significant British prize for a
collection of short stories going from strength to strength - and an honour to
be a judge for such a superb, diverse shortlist. This prize recognises great
writing from emerging and established authors alike," Cathy added.
The Edge Hill Prize is awarded annually by Edge Hill University for excellence
in a published single author short story collection. The winner will be
announced on Tuesday, 5 July 2016, at a special celebration co-hosted with The
Word Factory in London. Judges include 2015's winner, Kirsty Gunn; Cathy Galvin,
Founder and Director of The Word Factory; and Edge Hill Creative Writing
Lecturer, Billy Cowan.
Edge Hill Prize 2016 Shortlist:-
► China Miéville - 3 Moments of an Explosion.
China Miéville lives and works in London. He is 3 time winner of the prestigious
Arthur C. Clarke Award and has also won the British Fantasy Award twice. The
City & The City, an existential thriller, was received critical acclaim and drew
comparison with the works of Kafka and Orwell and Philip K. Dick. This is his
third collection of short stories.
► Angela Readman - Don't Try This at Home.
Angela Readman's stories have been published in a number of anthologies and
magazines, and have won awards such as the Inkspill Magazine short story
competition and the National Flash Fiction competition. The title story in this
collection was shortlisted for the Costa Short Story Prize in 2012, and she went
on to win the same competition with 'the Keeper of the Jackelopes' in 2013, also
in this collection.
► Jessie Greengrass - An Account of the Decline of the
Great Auk, According to the One Who Saw It.
Jessie Greengrass was born in 1982. She studied philosophy in Cambridge and
London, where she now lives with her partner and child. Jessie is a founder
member of the Brautigan Free Press, and has appeared on London Fields Radio's
Page One talking about the work of Dorothy L Sayers.
► Kate Clanchy - The Not-Dead and the Saved.
Kate Clanchy was born and grew up in Scotland and now lives in Oxford. Her
poetry collections Slattern, Samarkand and Newborn have brought her many
literary awards and an unusually wide audience. She is the author of the much
acclaimed Antigona and Me, and was the 2009 winner of the BBC Short Story Award.
She has also written extensively for Radio 4
► Stuart Evers - Your Father Sends his Love.
Stuart Evers in the author of Ten Stories About Smoking (London Book Award) and
the much acclaimed novel If This is Home. He lives in London with his family.
► Thomas Morris - We Don't Know What We're Doing.
Thomas Morris is from Caerphilly, South Wales. He was educated solely through
the Welsh language until the age of 18. He now lives in Dublin where he is the
editor of The Stinging Fly magazine. |
