Female writers triumph in New Writing awards
Azmar Dar (pic left) was the winner in the New Writing Ventures fiction category reports the Guardian.
The judge of a national writing prize has ordered men to "wake up" after all of the £3,000 awards went this year to women. With eight of the nine contenders on the New Writing Ventures awards for emerging literary talent being women, the outcome was always unlikely to be otherwise.
Henry Sutton, chair of judges for the fiction section of the awards and literary editor of the Daily Mirror, said he was "surprised and saddened" when he realised that no men had made the grade to even reach the shortlist for the category. "I was shocked when I realised that all three were women," he said. "I've never believed in a difference of the sexes when it comes to literary talent, but there does seem to be a broader appeal in what women are writing than men."
Henry Sutton, chair of judges for the fiction section of the awards and literary editor of the Daily Mirror, said he was "surprised and saddened" when he realised that no men had made the grade to even reach the shortlist for the category. "I was shocked when I realised that all three were women," he said. "I've never believed in a difference of the sexes when it comes to literary talent, but there does seem to be a broader appeal in what women are writing than men."
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