Sheffield Hallam University launched a new annual short story competition yesterday and they're giving away a full-time scholarship to the winner.
As part of the E.A. Markham Scholarship Prize, the university is giving students the chance to show-off their creative writing skills and win a place on their Masters of Arts (MA) Writing course for free.
Judging the short-stories will be author Hilary Mantel who wrote the award-winning Beyond Black, and Maggie Gee, Vice-President of the Royal Society of Literature.
Marina Lewycka, former student and best-selling author of A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian said: "I found the MA Writing course at Hallam enormously stimulating, both intellectually and creatively. It helped me to get my first novel published."
The deadline for the competition is Wednesday 1st April 2009 and the writer of the best short story submitted will be given the award in honour of Professor Emeritus E. A. Markham who was a tutor at Sheffield Hallam University who died in 2008.
There are also nationwide prizes for students with the best: linguistics essay, undergraduate dissertation on a literature or language topic, poetry work and overall performance by a first year English Studies student.
Applicants for the short story scholarship prize can receive further information by visiting: www.shu.ac.uk/english/prizes.
BY LIAM DAY
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