Competition Judges
Heather Beck
Heather Beck is Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing in the Manchester Writing School at MMU where she founded the university's international online MA in Creative Writing in 2002. Her fiction includes short stories and a novel, Home is Where. She is editor of Teaching Creative Writing in Higher Education (forthcoming from Palgrave Macmillan). |
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John Burnside
John Burnside is the author of a collection of short stories, Burning Elvis, and six novels including Living Nowhere, Glister and The Devil's Footprints, which was short-listed for the 2008 James Tait Black Memorial Prize. He has also published two memoirs and his poetry has won the Whitbread Award (for The Asylum Dance) and the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize (for Feast Days). He is currently Professor of Creative Writing at St Andrew's University and lives in Fife. . |
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Alison MacLeod
Alison MacLeod was the recipient of the 2008 Society of Authors' Olive Cook Award for Short Fiction. She has published two critically acclaimed novels, The Changeling and The Wave Theory of Angels, and a short story collection, Fifteen Modern Tales of Attraction, which was nominated for the International Frank O'Connor Award and named one of the top ten "books to talk about" in 2009, in association with World Book Day. She lives in Brighton and is Professor of Contemporary Fiction at the University of Chichester.
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Nicholas Royle
Chair of Judges Nicholas Royle is Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing in the Manchester Writing School at MMU. He is the author of five novels, including The Matter of the Heart, The Director's Cut and Antwerp and more than 100 short stories, some of which feature in his collection Mortality. He has edited 14 collections, including the The Best British Short Stories 2011, and runs Nightjar Press, which publishes new stories in chapbook format. He lives in Manchester with his wife and two children.
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