Melvyn Bragg, Daisy Waugh, Will Self and AS Byatt to judge the second Sunday Times EFG Private Bank Short Story Award – the world’s most valuable short-story prize

Judges are announced for the world’s most valuable short story prize, which offers £30,000 for a single story. Novelist, screenwriter and broadcaster Melvyn Bragg,(pic left), columnist and broadcaster Daisy Waugh and writer and journalist Will Self will be joined by award-winning author AS Byatt and Andrew Holgate, literary editor of The Sunday Times, to judge the second Sunday Times EFG Private Bank Short Story Award. The non-voting chair of Judges is Matthew Evans, Chairman of EFG Private Bank.

The judges are looking for a superlative story of 6,000 words or under from a fiction author who has had work published in Britain or Ireland. The winner will receive £30,000, and the five shortlisted writers will receive £500 each, as well as having the chance to appear in The Sunday Times Magazine and online at www.thesundaytimes.co.uk.

The award, launched by award founder and director Cathy Galvin, builds on the success of the innovative short fiction slot she introduced to the magazine as deputy editor in 2008 and reflects The Sunday Times's support for outstanding writing.In the inaugural year there were more than 1,000 submissions, and the winner was New Zealand writer CK Stead.

The deadline for submissions to The Sunday Times EFG Private Bank Short Story Award is 1pm on Thursday October 30, 2010. The longlist will be announced on Sunday February 20, 2011 and the shortlist on Sunday March 13. The winner will be announced at a special event at The Sunday Times Oxford Literary Festival on April 8, 2011.

For full details of eligibility and how to submit, please download the terms and conditions and an entry form from: www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/shortstoryaward

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