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Exciting and high profile competition for you short story writers out there. Go for it guys n gals! The Royal Society of Literature is delighted to announce that we are now accepting entries for the sixteenth V.S. Pritchett Memorial Prize. The prize is awarded for the best unpublished short story of the year. The judges for this year are Margaret Drabble, Tibor Fischer and Helen Oyeyemi. Please find the entry form attached. There is a prize of £1,000, and the winning entry will be published in Prospect online and in the RSL Review. In addition to this, there will be an opportunity to appear at a RSL event with established short story writers in autumn 2014. In order to be eligible for the competition, stories must be 2000- 4000 words, have not have been published previously, or broadcast in any other medium. Entrants must be citizens of the UK, the Republic of Ireland or Commonwealth countries or have been resident in one the aforementioned countries for the past three years. Please find further instructions on how to enter online at: theroyalsocietyofliterature.submittable/submit The closing date for the competition is Monday 16 June 2014. Would it be possible to pass on information regarding the prize to your students? Also if you are able to post this suggested tweet, I would be most grateful: Entries open for @RSLiterature V.S. Pritchett Memorial Prize for unpublished short stories. £1000 prize. D/L 16 June rslit.org/v-s-pritchett Yours Sincerely Isobel Carter RSL Intern The Royal Society of Literature Somerset House London WC2R 1LA E: [email protected] [Description: Description: Description: Description: Current Logo 2012 (crest & text) - copy for signature] rslit.org Follow us on Twitter: @RSLiterature Like us on Facebook Subscribe to our e-newsletter Forthcoming speakers include: Nadeem Aslam, Margaret Atwood, Peter Conradi, Margaret Drabble, Richard Eyre, Edmund Gordon, Alan Hollinghurst, Hermione Lee, Ian McEwan, Pankaj Mishra, Kamila Shamsie. People need to feel in their bones that the whole of English literature from Beowulf to Byron to Benjamin Zephaniah is theirs by right of inheritance. The RSL shows people what belongs to them, and welcomes them into it. Philip Pullman When you consider the wealth of national and international culture it delivers, an RSL membership isnt just a bargain, its worth the world. Ali Smith
Posted on: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 18:58:23 +0000

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