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Short Story Prize Party: 21 April

The winner of the fourth annual White Review Short Story Prize for unpublished writers will be announced at 7.30 p.m. at the Horse Hospital, Colonnade, Bloomsbury, London WC1N 1JD. Doors open at 6.30 p.m.; music will follow the announcement. There will be a tab behind the bar; if you want a free drink get there early.

 

The winning writer is awarded £2,500. Her/his story will be published in the subsequent print issue of The White Review. The shortlist was announced on 7 April and the shortlisted entries published at www.thewhitereview.org.

 

This year’s prize is judged by Eimear McBride, Simon Prosser and Imogen Pelham.

 

EIMEAR McBRIDE was born in 1976. She is the author of A GIRL IS A HALF-FORMED THING, which won the 2013 Goldsmiths Prize, was shortlisted for the 2014 Folio Prize and won the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction 2014. Her second novel, THE LESSER BOHEMIANS, will be published in 2016 by Faber & Faber.

 

IMOGEN PELHAM is a literary agent at Marjacq Scripts.

 

SIMON PROSSER is the publishing director at Hamish Hamilton. His authors include Lydia Davis, Deborah Levy, Haru Kunzru, Paul Murray, Ali Smith and Zadie Smith.


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