Unity Books NZ Short Story Prize with a Difference

13 September 2010
Unity Books NZ Short Story Prize with a Difference
Deadline: 24 December 2010

This is the long and the short of it: Nothing can destroy the story. We took it from around the fire and brought it with us through ages and pages and e-books and book burnings. Stories inspire, inquire, disrupt and explain our lives. This is your chance to write a story that moves and explains, a story worth passing on.

There are two categories: under 1,000 words and over 10,000 words.

The winner from each category will join the likes of Nigel Cox, Elizabeth Knox, Damien Wilkins, Emily Perkins, Eleanor Catton and Colm Toibin in the hallowed pages of SPORT magazine (our very own GRANTA, really) as well as receive a $1,000 Unity Books voucher to spend at their leisure (it's not like a bar tab we won't force you to binge).

OH, AND...

The top 6 will be published in a special, limited edition book; your words all bound up and passed on (well, sold) at UNITY BOOKS.

THE JUDGES...

We are proud to announce a truly stellar panel of judges:

Elizabeth Knox, Bill Manhire and Emily Perkins.

AND THE WINNERS ARE...

We are more than just happy (really quite stoked) to inform you that the winners, as well as the Long and the Short book, will be launched & announced respectively at the 2011 Auckland Writers and Readers Festival. A free session will be held with wine and other drinks that can be had long or short.

WE'LL SEE YOU THERE.

ENTER:

Entries open on the first day of Spring (1st September 2010) and close on Christmas Eve.
The winners will be announced at the Auckland Writers and Readers Festival in May 2011.
Entries must be previously unpublished and available for publication in SPORT on the usual terms, and in THE LONG & SHORT BOOK. Entry is limited to NZ writers.

Please DO NOT put your name on your submission (only put your name on this entry form), and ensure that the title of your submission is the same as the title in this form.
The judges will not know the identities of the entrants.

More information here.
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