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The Bridge Awards: Short Story Mentoring Award
Deadline: Mon 25 Feb 2019
The Bridge Awards are delighted to announce a new award for emerging short story writers based in Scotland. The award will be comprised of a short feedback/mentoring package with author Cherise Saywell. This is a great opportunity for a writer to develop his/her craft and to work with an experienced writer and mentor.
To be eligible for the award, you must be a writer living and working in Scotland, and you must not have previously published a novel or a collection of short stories.
Cherise Saywell is a novelist and short-story writer. She has published two novels, Desert Fish (2011) and Twitcher (2013) (both Vintage, Australia). Cherise won the Pindrop Short Story Award in 2017, the Mslexia Short Story Prize in 2015 and the V.S. Pritchett prize in 2003. Her short stories have appeared in Mslexia, The London Magazine and New Writing Scotland, and in numerous anthologies including A Short Affair (Simon and Schuster) and Waving at the Gardener (Bloomsbury). Her story ‘Pieces of Mars Have Fallen to Earth’ was selected for BBC Radio 4’s Opening Lines programme in 2015.
For details of how to apply go to: www.thebridgeawards.co.uk
Deadline: 25 February 2019
Additional Information:
Location:
Scotland
Region(s):
Scotland
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