The
new Award is for a single, previously unpublished short story of up to
4,000 words by an author aged 18 years or over and written in English. The author’s primary residence must have been the UK or Ireland for the
past three years.
Entry opens on Monday 16th July 2012 and closes at 4pm on Friday 7th September 2012. Entries must be submitted online via a dedicated page at www.costabookawards.com. Entrants need not have been previously published but publishers and agents may submit entries on behalf of authors.
All entries will be judged anonymously – in other words, without the identity of the author being available to the judges.
A
panel of five judges will select a shortlist of six entries which will
be revealed in November. The public will then be invited to vote online
for their favourite story from the six finalists.
The winner will be announced at the Costa Book Awards ceremony on 29th January 2013 and will receive £3,500; two runners-up will each receive £750.
The judges for the 2012 Costa Short Story Award are:
Richard Beard: Director of the National Academy of Writing
Fanny Blake: Novelist and Journalist; Books Editor of Woman & Home
Gary Kemp: Songwriter and guitarist for Spandau Ballet; Actor and Writer
Victoria Hislop: Writer
Simon Trewin: Agent, William Morris Endeavor
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