The V S Pritchett Memorial Prize 2011
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The V S Pritchett Memorial Prize 2011
Prize: £1,000
Deadline: 30 June 2011
Entry fee £5
The VS Pritchett Memorial Prize of £1,000 is for an unpublished short story. It was relaunched in 2009 in collaboration with Prospect magazine, who will be publishing the winning entry.
This prize commemorates an author who is widely regarded as the finest English short-story writer of the 20th century.
Entrants must be citizens of the UK or the Republic of Ireland, or have been resident for the past three years. Stories entered for the competition must not have been published previously, or broadcast in any other medium. Any story submitted should be between 2,000 and 5,000 words in length. Entries should be in English.
The short story, my father once wrote, is “exquisitely difficult”. For the author, that is. All the same, I hope that many, many people will enter this competition in his memory. And if they want encouragement and inspiration they may find it in one of his own short stories. There are so many to choose from, but I would particularly recommend “The Evils of Spain”, one of my favourites, from the very beginning of his amazingly long writing career, or the wonderful “Cocky Olly”, written more than half a century late.
Oliver Pritchett
Download the 2011 VSP entry form
