2009 AWARD WINNERS ANNOUNCED
TWELVE new women writers will have their stories published by Bloomsbury later this summer
Nearly 800 writers entered the competition, out of which 80 stories were short listed and sent to the judges - Di Speirs, executive producer for BBC Radio 4; Erica Wagner, writer and literary editor of The Times and David Constantine, writer, poet and translator.
Releasing the titles of the winning stories, chair of judges, Di Speirs, praised the standard of writing, the wide variety of subject and style.
"Writers dared to travel far, but they also chose to stay close to home. This was an impressive group of submissions and it suggests there is a great appetite for short stories and a good deal of fine writing going on."
The winning stories and their authors are:
Waving at the Gardener, by Elizabeth Day, from Sawbridgeworth, Hertfordshire
Lily’s Army, by Hilary Plews from London
The Candle Garden, by Cherise Saywell from Edinburgh
Because it is running by, by Jo Lloyd from Oxford
All for the Best, by Nora Morrison from Pickering, North Yorkshire
Omi’s Ghosts, by Alison Dunn from Brighton
Visitors, by Vicky Grut from London
The Stripper and the Dead Man, by Janna Connorton from Frome, Somerset
Bella, by Juno McKittrick from Oswestry, Shropshire
Whalebone Stays, by Alexandra Fox from Hackleton, Northants
A Summary of Findings, by Catherine Chanter from Missenden, Buckinghamshire
Something Small and Understood, by Erica Janeanne Rocca, Merseyside
