Competition Judges
Sarah Hall
Sarah Hall was born in Cumbria in 1974.
She is the author of Haweswater, which won the 2003 Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Novel and a Society of Authors Betty Trask Award, and was followed by two more award-winning novels: The Carhullan Army and The Electric Michelangelo, which was also Man Booker short-listed.
Her latest novel is How to Paint a Dead Man.
She judged the 2008 John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and is currently working on a collection of short stories. |
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M. John Harrison
M. John Harrison has written eight novels, including Nova Swing,, which won both the Arthur C. Clarke and Philip K. Dick awards, and Climbers, which was the first novel to win the Boardman Tasker Award for Mountain Literature.
His short stories have appeared in four collections and in publications such as Interzone and The Independent on Sunday.
He was born in Rugby, Warwickshire. |
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Nicholas Royle
Nicholas Royle is a lecturer in creative writing at Manchester Metropolitan University.
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 13 anthologies, including the Time Out Book of New York Short
Stories and Darklands, and lives in Manchester with his wife and
two children.
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