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Daunt Books was founded in 1990 by former banker James Daunt with the purchase of a bookshop on Marylebone High Street. [1] It now focuses on first-hand titles (especially travel-related material). The Marylebone branch is housed in a former Edwardian bookshop with long oak galleries, graceful skylights and William Morris prints.
The Commonwealth Short Story Competition was an annual literary award. It was established in 1996 and administered by the Commonwealth Foundation in partnership with the Commonwealth Broadcasting Association. Each year winning stories from different regions of the Commonwealth were recorded and broadcast on radio stations across the Commonwealth.
[1] [2] It has been described as "one of the most prestigious [awards] for a single short story" [3] and the richest prize in the world for a single short story. [4] The award aims to increase interest in the short story genre, particularly British short stories. [2] As of 2017, the winner receives £15,000 and four shortlisted writers receive ...
Achilles James Daunt CBE (born 18 October 1963) is a British businessman. He is the founder of the Daunt Books chain, and since May 2011 has been managing director of the bookshop chain Waterstones. Since August 2019, Daunt has also been CEO of Barnes & Noble, the American bookstore chain. He is known as "the man who saved Waterstones".
The judges were Chloe Aridjis, Sam Byers, Daunt books publisher Želkja Marošević, Granta editor Anne Meadows and literary agent Sophie Scard. [19] The 2018 Poetry judges were Kayo Chingonyi, Anne Boyer and Lavinia Greenlaw. The poetry winner was awarded on 6 December 2018. Winner (Short Story): Julia Armfield for "The Great Awake"
The prize is named in honor of the American short story writer and novelist Flannery O'Connor. [2] The prize was established in 1983 and has since published more than seventy collections. [3] Originally, the prize was awarded annually to two winners for a collection of short stories or novellas. Starting in 2016, there has only been one winner ...
The competition was created to encourage new writers and is not open to professional authors. "Professional author" is defined as one who is eligible for active membership of the Science Fiction Writers of America – that is, a writer with three short story sales to qualifying markets or one novel sale to a qualifying market. Entries must be ...
Peter Cowan published eight volumes of short stories, five novels and three biographies. He also edited two books of diaries and letters and co-edited seven volumes of short fiction. [1] His first published work was a short story, Living, published in Angry Penguins in 1943. Over the next twenty years, he continued to publish short stories.