The Willesden Herald had some problems with their short story competition last year with judge Zadie Smith not overly impressed with the level of entries. This year they're using another judge Rana Dasgupta. They screen the stories to a short list and Rana choses the prizewinners from that.
Entry fee: Free
Word limit: 8,000.
Prizes: 1st place: £150 plus a one-off Willesden Herald mug inscribed "The Willesden Short Story Prize 2009"
2nd: 2 x £100 (two runners up)
The three winning stories will be published in a special edition of Pulp.net.
Deadline: 19 December 2008
It's not much of a prize but it is free...
3 comments:
Free is good. I've already been rejected by Pulp.net this year, so at least I know which story to not include LOL.
thanks for passing this one along!
Oo-er! At least it's free though. Be interesting to see if they get as many entries this time :o)
Results are here http://willesdenherald.blogspot.com/2009/03/result-of-short-story-competition-2009.html
"Propitiation" by Jenny Barden
"The Imperfect Roundness of Things" by Claudia Boers
"The Hate Club" by Ben Cheetham
"The Travellers" by Carys Davies
"Ante-Purgatory" by Carol Farrelly
"Amy" by Nick Holdstock
"Work" by Jo Lloyd WINNER
"Ebb Tide" by Margot Taylor
"Mina and Fina and Lotte Wattimena" by Jill Widner
"Tokyo Chocolate" by Morowa Yejidé
Anthology available
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