2012 Unbound Press & Spilling Ink Holiday Flash Fiction Prize

1st Place

Kylie Grant

Their Eyes Were Watching Cod

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2nd Place

Luxi Peng

On the Outskirts of the World

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3rd Place

Danielle Monroe

Chronicle of an Alabama Childhood, 1957

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Shortlist:

Gail Aldwin – Homeless
Faith Cobaine – The Seat of Virtue
Martin Cornwell – E justitsim
Tania Hershman – Into the Waiting Arms of God
WF Lantry – Coloratura
Paul McGuire – Mum’s the Word
Emily Munro – The Buyer

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Honorable Mention:

Ailsa Crum – One or the Other
Tom Norton – The Pizza Girl
Mark Sheerin – Plucking at the Gunbri
Barabara Whittle – Initiation

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The winning and shortlisted entries will appear in our annual print anthology due for publication November, 2012. Honorable Mentions will appear in
Spilling Ink Review: Issue 8 (pending author agreement).

Thank you to all who participated in the Flash Fiction Prize.

Follow these links if you’d like to know more about future Unbound Press Awards and Spilling Ink Prizes.

Flash Fiction Prize

Now Open!
Closing Date: January 9, 2012
Winning and short-listed entries notified no later than January 31, 2012+++

1^st Prize – iPad2 and publication in our 2012 annual print anthology
For an idea of what you could win and information about the iPad2 visit the good people at the Apple Store

2^nd Prize – iPod touch and publication in our 2012 annual print anthology
For an idea of what you could win and information about iPod touch visit the good people at the Apple Store

3^rd Prize – iPod nano and publication in our 2012 annual print anthology
For an idea of what you could win and information about iPod nana visit the good people at the Apple Store

Shortlisted Entries – publication in our annual 2012 print anthology

Shortlisted & Honorable Mentions will receive also receive a free copy of Story.Book, our 2011 annual print anthology

Entry fee:

GBP – 1 for £5 or 3 for £10 (cheques accepted from UK banks)
EURO – 1 for €8 or 3 for €16
USD – 1 for $10 or 3 for $20

Competition Guidelines

• 500 words max (no minimum).
• There is no theme. All styles are welcome.
• Entry fees may be paid securely online via PayPal (you do not need a PayPal account) or via post. Cheques must be from a UK bank and should be payable to Unbound Press.
• Simultaneous submissions are accepted but please let us know as soon as possible if your entry has been accepted elsewhere or won/placed in another writing competition. Entry fees will not be refunded in this case.
• Entries may be submitted via email or post. Entries submitted via email must be attached in the form of a Word (doc) or Rich Text Format (rtf). Entries submitted via post must be printed on standard-size paper and double-spaced and should be accompanied with a cover page stating: Name, Postal Address, Phone Number, Email Address (if available) Title Entry/Word Count. Entries sent via post will not be returned (please don’t send your only copy). Send postal entries to: UP & SIR HOLIDAY FLASH FICTION PRIZE /PO Box 16864 / Glasgow / Scotland / G11 9DJ
• If you submit via post and wish to receive an acknowledgement of receipt be sure to include your email address OR a self-addressed, stamped envelope or postcard.
• Please be kind when formatting and adhere to general rules of courtesy (i.e. 12pt standard font, double-spaced, pages numbered).
• Submissions must be entrant’s own original work and must be previously unpublished.
• International submissions are welcomed but all entries must be written in English.
• Copyright remains with the author.
• Entries will be judged anonymously and all decisions are final.

How to Enter

• You have two payment options. You may use the secure, pay-online PayPal option below or you may send a cheque (from a UK bank only) to the following address: UP & SIR HOLIDAY FLASH FICTION PRIZE, PO Box 16864, Glasgow, Scotland G11 9DJ.
• If paying online: once you have a receipt/transaction number submit your entry via email to: unboundpress@gmail.com
• Be sure to cut and paste your PayPal receipt/transaction number into the body of the email (or let me know that payment has been sent via post)
• State the competition category in the subject line of your email
• In the body of the email please include the following:

• Name
• Postal Address
• Title of Entry and Word Count
• PayPal Receipt/Transaction Number

• Don’t forget to attach your story!

How to Pay Online

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Announcement of Winners

Winners and runners-up will be notified by email after the closing date and results posted on the Unbound Press and Spilling Ink Review websites.

© 2011-2012 Unbound Press & Spilling Ink Review / Amy Burns, Editor / PO Box 16864, Glasgow G11 9DJ, email: unboundpress@gmail.com

Unbound Press and Spilling Ink Review are divisions of Arts Unbound Limited Registered Company 07489349

2011 Unbound Press Best Novel Award

1st Place

Helen McClory

Kilea

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2nd Place

Gillian Best

Carbunckle’s Flight

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Honorable Mentions:

Rory Dunlop – Place of Exile
Sarah Line Letellier – Nights in Paris
Samuel Wright – The Blueprint

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Shortlist:

Liam Bell – Kelpkiln
Lucienne Boyce – In Barbarous Ages
Elizabeth Davidson – Seeking Aisha
Louise Demartigny – The Bomb That’ll Bring Us Together
Rosie Garland – Animal Instinct
Romi Jones – It Doesn’t Matter
W.F. Lantry – Coloratura
Roderick Low – Rewards & Dilemmas
Eivind Nerberg – The Man Who Would Do Nothing Twice
Aline P’nina Tayar – Islands

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© 2010-2011 Unbound Press / Amy Burns, Editor / PO Box 16864, Glasgow G11 9DJ, email: unboundpress@gmail.com

2011 Unbound Press Flash Fiction Award

We’d like to offer a special thanks to our wonderful guest judge:  Laura Marney.

1st Place

Vivien Jones

Sorting Office

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2nd Place

Steven Levery

Inspiration

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3rd Place

Chris Sharratt

Big Society

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Shortlist:

Amy Ralston – Spring Cleaning
Erika Byrnes – Getting Mexico
Patrick Sung – Nighttime in Tobita-Shinchi

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Honorable Mention:

Rachael Claye – Family
Ross Stewart – Let Good Digestion Wait on Appetite
Heather Reid – Crow Baby
Dorothy Fryd – Fine Art
Seif El Rashidi – Absence
Sarah Wright – Squab
Caroline Greene – Trompe l’oeil
Alan Gillespie – Rab’s Pub

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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 6 (pending author agreement).

Thank you to all who participated in the Flash Fiction Award.

Follow these links if you’d like to know more about future Unbound Press Awards and Spilling Ink Prizes (including our upcoming Best Novel Prize, closing September 1st and Fiction Prize, closing October 1st – our high ‘purse’ yet – £875 in prizes).

Guest Judge: Laura Marney

Laura Marney is the author of numerous short stories and four novels: No Wonder I Take a Drink, Nobody Loves a Ginger Baby, Only Strange People Go to Church and My Best Friend has Issues. She also writes for stage, radio and television. She is a member of the Glasgow G7 group of writers which includes Alan Bissett, Nick Brookes, Rodge Glass, Alison Miller, Zoë Strachan and Louise Welsh. Originally brought up in Glasgow, Laura now teaches at the University of Glasgow’s prestigious Creative Writing Programme.

© 2010-2011 Unbound Press / Amy Burns, Editor / PO Box 16864, Glasgow G11 9DJ, email: unboundpress@gmail.com

Now Open!
Closing Date: August 1, 2011
Winning and short-listed entries notified no later than August 31, 2011+++

1^st Prize – £250, publication, 1 free copy of annual print anthology

2^nd Prize – £125, publication, 1 free copy of annual print anthology

3^rd Prize – £50, publication, 1 free copy of annual print anthology

Shortlisted Entries* – publication, 1 free copy of annual print anthology

Entry fee £5

* Number of entries shortlisted will be determined by the quality of submissions

Guest Judge: Laura Marney

Laura Marney is the author of numerous short stories and four novels: No Wonder I Take a Drink, Nobody Loves a Ginger Baby, Only Strange People Go to Church and My Best Friend has Issues. She also writes for stage, radio and television. She is a member of the Glasgow G7 group of writers which includes Alan Bissett, Nick Brookes, Rodge Glass, Alison Miller, Zoë Strachan and Louise Welsh. Originally brought up in Glasgow, Laura now teaches at the University of Glasgow’s prestigious Creative Writing Programme.

Competition Guidelines

• 500 words max (no minimum).
• There is no theme. All styles (including experimental) and genre-based fiction (mystery, crime, fantasy, science fiction, historical) are welcome.
• Multiple entries are accepted but must be accompanied with an entry fee. Entry fees may be paid securely online via PayPal (you do not need a PayPal account) or via post. Postal payments should be made by cheque. Cheques must be from a UK bank and should be payable to ‘Unbound Press’. Send postal payments to: Unbound Press /PO Box 16864 / Glasgow / Scotland / G11 9DJ
• Simultaneous submissions are accepted but please let us know as soon as possible if your entry has been accepted elsewhere or won/placed in another writing competition. Entry fees will not be refunded in this case.
• Entries may be submitted via email or post. Entries submitted via email must be attached in the form of a Word (doc) or Rich Text Format (rtf). Entries submitted via post must be printed on standard-size paper and double-spaced. Entries sent via post will not be returned (please don’t send your only copy). Send postal entries to: Unbound Press /PO Box 16864 / Glasgow / Scotland / G11 9DJ
• Please be kind when formatting and adhere to general rules of courtesy (i.e. 12pt standard font, double-spaced, pages numbered).
• Submissions must be entrant’s own original work and must be previously unpublished (work that has appeared online, in print or has been broadcast is not eligible).
• International submissions are welcomed but all entries must be written in English.
• As a condition of submitting, the author agrees that Unbound Press has permission to publish the material online and in print. Copyright remains with the author.
• Entries will be judged anonymously and all decisions are final.
• All submissions will be considered for publication in the Unbound Press e-journal Spilling Ink Review.

How to Enter

• You have two payment options. You may use the secure, pay-online PayPal option below (you do not need a PayPal account) or you may send a cheque (from a UK bank only) to the following address: Unbound Press, PO Box 16864, Glasgow, Scotland G11 9DJ.

£5 Entry Fee use this PayPal Button:

• Once you have a receipt/transaction number submit your entry via email to: unboundpress@gmail.com
• Be sure to cut and paste your PayPal receipt/transaction number into the body of the email (or let me know that payment has been sent via post)
• State the competition category in the subject line of your email
• In the body of the email please include the following:

• Name
• Postal Address
• Title of Entry and Word Count
• PayPal Receipt/Transaction Number

• Don’t forget to attach your story!

Announcement of Winners

Winners and runners-up will be notified by email after the closing date and results posted on the Unbound Press website.

All entries must be available for publication online and in print.

© 2010-2011 Unbound Press / Amy Burns, Editor / PO Box 16864, Glasgow G11 9DJ, email: unboundpress@gmail.com

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.

© 2010-2011 Unbound Press / Amy Burns, Editor / PO Box 16864, Glasgow G11 9DJ, email: unboundpress@gmail.com

Closing Date: May 1, 2011
Winning and short-listed entries notified no later than May 31, 2011+++

1^st Prize – £250, publication, 1 free copy of annual print anthology

2^nd Prize – £125, publication, 1 free copy of annual print anthology

3^rd Prize – £50, publication, 1 free copy of annual print anthology

Shortlisted Entries* – publication, 1 free copy of annual print anthology

Entry fee £5

* Number of entries shortlisted will be determined by the quality of submissions

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.

Competition Guidelines

• 3000 words max (no minimum).
• There is no theme. All styles (including experimental) and genre-based fiction (mystery, crime, fantasy, science fiction, historical) are welcome.
• Multiple entries are accepted but must be accompanied with an entry fee. Entry fees may be paid securely online via PayPal (you do not need a PayPal account) or via post. Postal payments should be made by cheque. Cheques must be from a UK bank and should be payable to ‘Unbound Press’. Send postal payments to: Unbound Press /PO Box 16864 / Glasgow / Scotland / G11 9DJ
• Simultaneous submissions are accepted but please let us know as soon as possible if your entry has been accepted elsewhere or won/placed in another writing competition. Entry fees will not be refunded in this case.
• Entries may be submitted via email or post. Entries submitted via email must be attached in the form of a Word (doc) or Rich Text Format (rtf). Entries submitted via post must be printed on standard-size paper and double-spaced. Entries sent via post will not be returned (please don’t send your only copy). Send postal entries to: Unbound Press /PO Box 16864 / Glasgow / Scotland / G11 9DJ
• Please be kind when formatting and adhere to general rules of courtesy (i.e. 12pt standard font, double-spaced, pages numbered).
• Submissions must be entrant’s own original work and must be previously unpublished (work that has appeared online, in print or has been broadcast is not eligible).
• International submissions are welcomed but all entries must be written in English.
• As a condition of submitting, the author agrees that Unbound Press has permission to publish the material online and in print. Copyright remains with the author.
• Entries will be judged anonymously and all decisions are final.
• All submissions will be considered for publication in the Unbound Press e-journal Spilling Ink Review.

How to Enter

• You have two payment options. You may use the secure, pay-online PayPal option below (you do not need a PayPal account) or you may send a cheque (from a UK bank only) to the following address: Unbound Press, PO Box 16864, Glasgow, Scotland G11 9DJ.

£5 Entry Fee use this PayPal Button:

• Once you have a receipt/transaction number submit your entry via email to: unboundpress@gmail.com
• Be sure to cut and paste your PayPal receipt/transaction number into the body of the email (or let me know that payment has been sent via post)
• State the competition category in the subject line of your email
• In the body of the email please include the following:

• Name
• Postal Address
• Title of Entry and Word Count
• PayPal Receipt/Transaction Number

• Don’t forget to attach your story!

Announcement of Winners

Winners and runners-up will be notified by email after the closing date and results posted on the Unbound Press website.

All entries must be available for publication online and in print.

© 2010-2011 Unbound Press / Amy Burns, Editor / PO Box 16864, Glasgow G11 9DJ, email: unboundpress@gmail.com

If you aren’t familar with the University of Glasgow campus, here are general directions to the Anatomy Museum. It is tucked away and notoriously difficult to find but courage mon brave. It will be worth the adventure:

From University Avenue, walk through the main gates. Turn left and walk down a small incline across the car park. The Anatomy Museum is ahead of you, a low building with a ramp leading down to the entrace. It is not well sign-posted so take care! I will try to put up signs (rain, rain stay away) on the night. If you have any questions just let me know.

Spilling Ink: Volume 1 is a collection of international, award-winning fiction, nonfiction, and prose poetry. Contained within you’ll find a fantastically diverse assortment of prose. From the entertaining to the thought provoking, these short stories, flash fictions, micro-bursts and essays will keep you reading from cover to cover.

Edited by Amy Burns and collected from a year’s worth of competition winners, as well as outstanding works of merit from Spilling Ink Review’s online publications, you will certainly be enjoying the best-of-the-best:

Fiction

Rosie Adams, Viccy Adams, Christina Brooks, Joanna Campbell, Brindley Hallam Dennis, Matthew B Dexter, Max Dunbar, Dorothy Fryd, Wayne Lee Gay, Alan Gillespie, Louise Halvardsson, Steve Howe, Simon Kewin, Helen McClory, Caroline Moir, Christina Murphy, Kirsty Neary, Valerie O’Riordan, Robert Peett, Carly Pluckrose, Mark Romasko, Kerry Ryan, Beryl Sabel, Marc R Sherland, Kathrine Sowerby, Charlie Taylor, Lynne Voyce, Mark Wagstaff, Simon Wroe

Nonfiction

Kurt Caswell, Wanda Ernstberger, John G Fainella, David Francis, Alan Gillespie, Gill Hoffs, Kirsty Logan, Moy McCrory, Julia O’Byrne, Bob Tomolillo, Mary Wilson

Prose Poetry

Ian Crockatt, Dylan Gilbert, Emilie Vince, Desmond Kon Zhicheng-Mingdé

100 Words or Less

Viccy Adams, Nick Boreham, Brindley Hallam Dennis, Benjamin Judge, Sam Porter, Hila Shachar, Stephen R Smith

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Book Details:
ISBN: 978-0-956-8519-0-1
5 x 8″ / 196 pages

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Shipments to UK Addresses (Payment in GBP ££):
Retail Price INCLUDING Postage & Packaging – £9.95

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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).