I am delighted to announce the winners of The Glasgow Student Short Story Prize, chosen by our judge, A. L. Kennedy!1st Prize Winner:
Linda McLaughlin (Glasgow University)
'Taking Care of Joseph'
Linda McLaughlin (Glasgow University)
'Taking Care of Joseph'
2nd Prize Winner:
Nikki Cameron (Glasgow University)
'Catching the Number 79 Bus'
3rd Prize Winner:
Craig R Lamont (Strathclyde University)
'He Wasn't Half Late'
Special Mentions:
Vicki Husband (Glasgow University) with 'McLeish'
Mary Houston (Glasgow University) with 'In A Pickle'
Robert Kilgour (Strathclyde University) with 'Discomfort Food'
Matt Brolly (Glasgow University) with 'Heron'
John Jennett (Glasgow University) with 'Guga'
Nikki Cameron (Glasgow University)
'Catching the Number 79 Bus'
3rd Prize Winner:
Craig R Lamont (Strathclyde University)
'He Wasn't Half Late'
Special Mentions:
Vicki Husband (Glasgow University) with 'McLeish'
Mary Houston (Glasgow University) with 'In A Pickle'
Robert Kilgour (Strathclyde University) with 'Discomfort Food'
Matt Brolly (Glasgow University) with 'Heron'
John Jennett (Glasgow University) with 'Guga'
The shortlisted and winning stories will be available to read in an anthology, free to read online on the prize blog very soon, or available for purchase within the week. The stories will also be published in a dedicated 'Prize Winners Edition' of From Glasgow To Saturn (the literary journal of Glasgow University's Creative Writing MLitt) on 14th August.
I am thrilled that the prize attracted submissions from all five major universities and academies in Glasgow. Shortlisted stories came from a diverse range of students, studying Creative Writing, English Literature, Journalism, History of Art, Forensic Biology and Law.
I'm proud to have read so many excellent short stories, and I'm confident that whether or not individual entrants won prizes or a place on the shortlist, they will continue to write and to make Glasgow a great place to be a writer.
Thank you to every student who entered the prize.
I am thrilled that the prize attracted submissions from all five major universities and academies in Glasgow. Shortlisted stories came from a diverse range of students, studying Creative Writing, English Literature, Journalism, History of Art, Forensic Biology and Law.
I'm proud to have read so many excellent short stories, and I'm confident that whether or not individual entrants won prizes or a place on the shortlist, they will continue to write and to make Glasgow a great place to be a writer.
Here is a preview of the cover of the upcoming anthology!
The Cover
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7 comments:
Thanks for organising it. I enjoyed the pressure of writing to the deadline. Always works for me.
Wonderful work Lis! Be proud!
Stewart, I'm glad the deadline worked for you (I've got one next week, and it's making me a sad panda). And the pleasure was all mine, it was such a treat to read so many great stories. Which story was yours, I wonder (I got an admin buddy to make everything anon)..? Each of the three readers had really different lists, and ideas about who should be on the shortlist, so it was very very very tough. All of us had to give up on a couple of our top choices, and come to a consensus.
Anyway, great to hear you are writing again, best of luck with it all! I should probably get on with it, another 1000 words to firm up tonight...sob.
Finally - Anonymous: thanks, I really really am proud! I'm happy so many people in Glasgow are great writers, that's for sure.
Lis.
Send me an email, see if you can guess. Need Bly title, rather than "the one about..." as, publically, that wouldn'tbe nice. I'll no doubt respond straight away. It would be interesting to see ifyou were abletp guess my story from the anonymous ones.
In other news, you missed a good Weegie Wednesday. Maybe next month, with deadlines past, you can come along.
~S
Jeez, my spelling. In my defence, I'd had a few Guiness at Weegie Wednesday and was walking home and trying to walk and type the above into my phone at the same time.
Guiness. My spelling, really!
Stewart, love the beery spelling. Wish it took beer to get my spelling all woozy! Hope you are doing great, and enjoying all those Wegie Mondays, Tuesdays, and all the other days, too! I want to get to one, one of these days. I never seem to be in Glasgow city centre on the day they happen - maybe when I am back from my travels. That would be nice.
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