The Asham Award: the foremost short story prize for new women writers.
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Welcome to the website of the Asham Award:
the foremost short story prize for unpublished women writers

First prize: £1,000
Second prize: £500
Third prize: £300
Runners up receive £100 each, and have their stories published in a collection by Bloomsbury
  

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The Asham Award 2008 
is now open
Closing date September 30 2008

Conditions of entry
Click here to view and print an entry form

  To enter by post please send an A5 stamped addressed envelope to
The Asham Trust, Town Hall, High Street, Lewes, E.Sussex, BN7 2QS 

 The judges are Di Speirs, an executive producer for BBC Radio 4; David Constantine, novelist and poet and Erica Wagner, literary editor of The Times. 

The Award will be sponsored by the David Cohen Foundation, the award-winning Sussex bookshop Much Ado Books and Rees Elliott of Lewes

The collection of winning stories will again be published by Bloomsbury and will include specially commissioned stories by Margaret Atwood, Esther Freud, Yiyun Li and Alison MacLeod

2006 Asham Award
Winners and runners up 

 Read reviews of Is This What you Want? 

 


 

Hilary Lane has been sifting Asham Award entries for sixteen years. She offers some useful tips

 

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