THE AWARD
The Sunday Times is pleased to announce a prestigious new annual literary prize: The Sunday Times EFG Private Bank Short Story Award.

THE RULES
The authors must have been previously published in the UK or Ireland. Entrants must submit seven copies of one short story (maximum length 7,000 words). Manuscripts must be typed and double-spaced and the word count should be detailed on the entry. The author must include a list of his or her most recently published work including the publisher, date of publication and ISBN or ISSN. The award is open to writers published in the United Kingdom and Ireland. The deadline for entries is November 30, 2009, and the winner will be announced at a special event at the Sunday Times Oxford Literary Festival in March next year.

THE PRIZE
The winner will receive £25,000, making this competition the largest prize for an individual short story in the world. There are prizes of £500 each for the five runners up.





HOW TO ENTER

Click here to download entry form
Read entry terms and conditions


THE JUDGES

Lynn Barber
Renowned interviewer Lynn Barber recently joined The Sunday Times Magazine. Her books include How to Improve Your Man in Bed and The Heyday of Natural History, and she sat on the judging panel for the 2006 Turner Prize. Her autobiography, An Education, will be released as a film October 2009.

Nick Hornby
The author of Fever Pitch, High Fidelity and About A Boy, Nick Hornby is one of the UK’s most popular novelists and short story writers. A prolific essayist on music and popular culture, his novels have been adapted for both stage and screen. His latest novel, Juliet, Naked, will be released this September.

A.S. Byatt
Winner of the Booker Prize in 1990 for her novel Possession, A.S. Byatt is an internationally renowned poet, novelist and author of short stories. Her first novel, The Shadow of The Sun, was published in 1964 and her latest, The Children’s Book, is on the shortlist for the 2009 Booker Prize. She has previously been a judge for both The Booker Prize and Betty Trask Award.

Hanif Kureishi
Winner of the Whitbread Award in 1990 for his first novel, The Buddha of Suburbia, Hanif Kureishi is a novelist, director, screenwriter and playwright. His 1985 screenplay for My Beautiful Laundrette earned him an Oscar nomination and in 2007 he was awarded a CBE for his services to literature.

Lord Matthew Evans
Lord Matthew Evans CBE is currently Chairman of EFG Private Bank. Prior to joining EFG, Lord Evans was a government spokesperson, Chairman of Faber & Faber and governor of the British Film Institute.

Andrew Holgate
Andrew Holgate is Literary Editor of The Sunday Times. He has previously been a judge for The Samuel Johnson Prize, The Somerset Maugham Award and The Betty Trask Award.



The Sunday Times and The Sunday Times Magazine Short Story
The Sunday Times is proud of its literary heritage, and of its support for the best modern fiction. Every week, The Sunday Times Magazine’s short-story section delivers exclusive work by the finest authors writing in English today — including Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Julian Barnes, Zoë Heller, Hilary Mantel, Colm Toibin and William Trevor.

The Director of The Sunday Times EFG Private Bank Short Story Award is Cathy Galvin.
Cathy Galvin is Deputy Editor of The Sunday Times Magazine and introduced a weekly short story section to the magazine in 2008. She can be contacted on:
cathy.galvin@sundaytimes.co.uk

The Award is an annual competition administered by Booktrust, the independent charity dedicated to encouraging people of all ages and cultures to engage with books and the written word and is promoted by Times Newspapers Limited.
Booktrust

For inquiries about the competition to Booktrust, contact claire.shanahan@booktrust.org.uk

Looking for inspiration? See a selection of The Sunday Times Magazine short stories

Colm Toibin

John Updike

Aravind Adiga

Deborah Moggach

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