Competitions

Announcing a major new poetry competition:

The Alan Sillitoe Poetry Competition carries prizes of £200 (1^st), £100 (2^nd), £50 (3^rd) and £10 for runners up. The competition will be adjudicated by Ruth Fainlight and is open for submissions from now until 10^th January 2012.

If you would like a PDF or print copy of the above flyer, containing full details and rules of entry, please contact us at alansillitoepage@hotmail.co.uk.

Entries, along with a cheque for the entry fee made payable to “The Alan Sillitoe Committee” should be sent to The Competition Secretary (ASSF), 38 Harrow Road, West Bridgford, Nottingham NG2 7DU. You can also pay the entry fee via the PayPal button on the Statue Fund page and email your submissions to alansillitoepage@hotmail.co.uk.

ALL PROCEEDS WILL GO TO THE STATUE FUND.

SHORT STORY COMPETITION WINNERS

The winners of the Alan Sillitoe Short Story Competition were announced at the Lowdham Book Festival on Saturday 25^th June 2011.

The judges, David Sillitoe and Nicola Monaghan, were impressed with the standard of entries and the variety of approaches to the subject of ‘What would Arthur Seaton be like in 2011?’ 

They considered the first three stories to be equally good in content and style, so the decision was made to award the writers an equal share of the prize money, £60 to each winner. The two runners up received a selection of books, kindly donated by publishers Little, Brown and Random House.

Many thanks to all those who entered the competition – your support is greatly appreciated.

The winners were (in alphabetical order):

‘Password, please’ by Ann Featherstone

‘The Assistant’ by Neil Fulwood

Click on the highlighted titles to read the winning stories.

Runners up were:

‘This isn’t Skeggy’ by Gill Blow

‘The Way I see Things’ by Richard Moore