Please join me in congratulating the winners of the
2011 Unbound Press Short Fiction Award
We’d like to offer a special thanks to our wonderful guest judge: Elizabeth Reeder.
1st Place
John Mole
The Case of Mary Ford
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2nd Place
R. A. Martens
High Tea
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3rd Place
Graeme Scott
Jump Rope Practice
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Shortlist:
Wayne Lee Gay – Lonesome Road
Andrew Graham – All This Time
Gabby Meadows – The Cull
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Honorable Mention:
Fabian Acker – Short Circuit
Ian Crockatt – An Honest Question
Bronwen Griffiths – Inch by Inch
Karen Holmes – The Pass
Amy Ralston – Transition
Alla Velts – A tree, the sea, a silver spoon
Mark Wagstaff – Leaving Drink
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The winning and shortlisted entries will appear in our annual print anthology due for publication November, 2011. Honorable Mentions will appear in
Spilling Ink Review: Issue 5 (pending author agreement).
Thank you to all who participated in the Short Fiction Award.
Follow these links if you’d like to know more about future Unbound Press Awards and Spilling Ink Prizes (including our upcoming Flash Fiction Prize, closing April 1st).
Guest Judge: Elizabeth Reeder
Elizabeth Reeder is the author of Ramshackle (a novel coming soon) and a series of lyrical essays entitled microburst and topologies. She writes for BBC Radio 4 and her work has appeared in internationally acclaimed publications including PN Review, Kenyon Review, Gutter, and International Literary Quarterly. Originally from Chicago, Elizabeth lives in Scotland where she teaches on the Masters and PhD Programmes in Creative Writing at the University of Glasgow (including convening the Distance Learning CW MLitt). She is the recipient of two Scottish Arts Council bursaries, a Scottish Arts Council Professional Development Grant and the Glasgow University Research Support Award. To find out more and to read samples of her work, visit ekreeder.com.
