Please join me in congratulating the winners of the
2011 Unbound Press Short Story Award
The standard was high and we were extremely lucky to have the expertise of our wonderful Guest Judge: Zoë Strachan.
1st Place
Samuel Wright
Simple Present
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2nd Place
Laura Grace
The Clockmaker’s Wife
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3rd Place
Richard Smyth
The Trespasser’s Bible
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Shortlist:
Rico Craig – Skyrocket
Emily Munro – The Funeral Shroud
Thomas Woods – Suitably Framed
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Honorable Mention:
Colette Bernhardt – The Rail Enthusiast
Alex Cox – Sealed
Andrew Graham – And into the Summer
Ryan Hardgrove – The Other Side
W.F. Lantry – Saaki
James McIntyre – Glass Cow Town
Daniela Norris – In Search of a Hero
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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 Story Award. This is a very happy day for me because I love being able to publically acknowledge talented writers and I love being able to deliver £425 in prizes. 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: Zoë Strachan
Photograph Taken by Ray Deng
Zoë Strachan is the author of Negative Space and Spin Cycle (both published by Picador). The former won a Betty Trask Award and was shortlisted for the Saltire First Book of the Year Award. Zoë also writes short stories, essays, journalism and drama. Her work has been broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and Radio 3. She has received two writer’s bursaries from the Scottish Arts Council, a Hawthornden Fellowship and was UNESCO City of Literature writer-in-residence at the National Museum of Scotland. In 2008 she was awarded a Hermann Kesten Stipendium and spent time in Nuremberg, and in 2009 she received a Robert Louis Stevenson Fellowship which took her to France to write. She lives in Glasgow where she teaches part time on the prestigious Creative Writing programme at the University of Glasgow. She has just completed her third novel, Ever Fallen in Love?. You can find out more at www.zoestrachan.com.
