AlisasaThe longlist for The Sunday Times EFG Private Bank Short Story Award is announced
Posted on 23/02/2010The Sunday Times is pleased to announce a prestigious new annual literary prize: The Sunday Times EFG Private Bank Short Story Award. The winner will receive £25,000, making it the largest prize for an individual short story in the world.
The longlist for The Sunday Times EFG Private Bank Short Story Award was announced on Sunday 21 February. Twenty writers - seven women and thirteen men - are competing for the £25,000 prize for a single short story.
Extensively published and award winning authors including A.L. Kennedy and Rose Tremain are longlisted next to less well-known fiction writers including a former glamour model, Kay Sexton, RADA trained actor Simon Robson and the former Editor-in-Chief of Burkes Peerage & Baronetage, Charles Mosley.
Six of the longlisted writers are also award-winning poets, including Jackie Kay and John Burnside. The writers range in age from 28 - 77 years and come from around the world, including New Zealand, America and Zimbabwe
The twenty longlisted writers and the titles of their short stories are:
Richard Beard 'James Joyce, EFL Teacher'
Nicholas Best 'The Souvenir'
Sylvia Brownrigg 'Jocasta'
John Burnside 'Slut's Hair'
Will Cohu 'Nothing But Grass'
Joe Dunthorne 'Critical Responses To My Last Relationship'
Petina Gappah 'An Elegy for Easterly'
Jackie Kay 'Reality, Reality'
A.L. Kennedy 'Saturday Teatime'
Adam Marek 'Fewer Things'
Charles Mosley 'Constraint'
Chris Paling 'The Red Car'
Ron Rash - Burning Bright'
Simon Robson 'Will There Be Lions?'
Kay Sexton 'Anubis and the Volcano'
Helen Simpson 'Diary of an Interesting Year'
C.K. Stead 'Last Season's Man'
Rose Tremain 'The Jester of Astapovo'
Gerard Woodward 'Legoland'
David Vann 'It's Not Yours'
Judge Hanif Kureishi commented:
This has been a fascinating and stimulating exercise. Ive learnt a lot about what people are thinking and writing about at the moment. That for me was the pleasure of reading the longlist. We applaud the Sunday Times and EFG Private Bank for their financial support of this venture
The judges chose from 1,152 entries. The shortlist will be announced on Sunday, 7 March and the winner announced at The Sunday Times Oxford Literary Festival on Friday 26 March.
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