Historical Short Story Competition: deadline 22nd June 2012 EmmaD at 13:27 on 25 January 2012
Weald & Downland Open Air Museum announces its first historical fiction short story competition
Winning entries to be announced at the Historical Fiction Day on Sunday 5th August 2012
1st prize, the Jerwood Gridshell prize
£1,000 with story published in Sussex Life Magazine and Museum Magazine
sponsored by the Jerwood Foundation
2nd & 3rd prizes
£250 with story published in Museum Magazine
sponsored by the University of Chichester
Judges: novelists Kate Mosse, Jane Borrodale, Emma Darwin,
Museum Director Richard Palethorpe, Arts Editor Sussex Newspapers Phil Hewitt, Historian Danae Tankard