A stellar cast of judges has been announced for the world’s most valuable prize for a single short story. Novelist, screenwriter and broadcaster, Melvyn Bragg (left), returns to the panel to judge the £30,000 Award for the second consecutive year. He will be joined by stage and screen actor Ian Hart and three other literary heavyweights: the playwright, screenwriter, novelist, short story writer and director Hanif Kureishi; the novelist Joanna Trollope; and the novelist and short story writer Edna O’Brien – fresh from winning the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award. Completing the line-up are Andrew Holgate, Literary Editor of The Sunday Times, and Matthew Evans, Chairman of EFG Private Bank and the non-voting Chair of Judges.The judges are looking for an outstanding story of 6,000 words or under from a fiction author from anywhere in the world who has been published in the UK or Ireland. The winner will receive £30,000, and the five shortlisted writers will this year each receive £1000 – double the 2011 prize money – as well as having their work published online.
Key dates:
- 28 October 2011
- deadline for submissions
- 19 February 2012
- longlist announced
- 4 March 2012
- shortlist announced
- 30 March 2012
- winner announced at a special event at The Sunday Times Oxford Literary Festival
For full details of eligibility, terms and conditions and entry forms visit: www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/shortstoryaward
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