Category Archives: awards and prizes

Emily Bullock’s short story to be broadcast on BBC Radio 4

Posted on March 22, 2013 by Clare Spencer

Emily’s short story ‘My Girl’, which won first place in the Bristol short story prize in 2011, is due to be broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on Friday 29th March 2013, at 3.45 pm.  It opens a short series of … Continue reading →

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Katrina Naomi is awarded writing residency

Posted on October 2, 2012 by Clare Spencer

Katrina Naomi has been awarded a prestigious Gladstone’s Library Residency in 2013. She has just returned from reading at the Poetry on the Lake Festival in Italy, where she won second prize in the Poetry on the Lake short poem … Continue reading →

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Pauline Plummer (Hughes): recent writing successes

Posted on September 25, 2012 by Clare Spencer

Pauline Plummer’s verse novella From Here to Timbuktu has been chosen as a Read Regional book, by New Writing North.  This means that it will be promoted for the next nine months through readings and publicity.  The Read Regional campaign … Continue reading →

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Heather Richardson’s bid wins EPSRC Commercial Challenge

Posted on July 2, 2012 by Clare Spencer

A couple of months ago a news item on the OU Home page caught my eye. It was the launch of a Commercial Challenge competition for researchers and research students who had come up with a business idea as a … Continue reading →

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Michael Stewart’s novel wins the Not the Booker prize

Posted on November 10, 2011 by Clare Spencer

Michael Stewart’s novel King Crow, published in January 2011, has been voted the winner of the 2011 Not the Booker prize.  The prize is awarded by readers of the Guardian books blog, after an extended process of nominations, shortlisting and reviewing … Continue reading →

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Frome Festival Short Story Win

Posted on September 19, 2011 by Jacq Molloy

  Jacq Molloy, a tutor on Creative Writing courses A215 and A363, won the Frome short story prize over the summer with her story ‘Wake’. The competition attracted over 550 international entries. Literary agent Jane Judd wrote to Jacq to … Continue reading →

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Writing for Site-Specific Theatre

Posted on August 21, 2011 by Jules Horne

I’d always wanted to collaborate on a site-specific piece, and when Nutshell’s director Kate Nelson asked me to write a play for her allotment for the Edinburgh Fringe, I jumped. Partly in excitement, partly in terror. Terror because we’d be … Continue reading →

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Tutor’s novel in progress shortlisted for international prize

Posted on August 15, 2011 by Clare Spencer

A novel in progress by Lane Ashfeldt has been shortlisted for the Dundee International Book Prize 2011. There are six books on the shortlist and the winner is yet to be announced. Publication forms part of the prize for the … Continue reading →

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Emily Bullock wins Bristol Short Story Prize

Posted on July 27, 2011 by Clare Spencer

 OU creative Writing tutor Emily Bullock has won the hotly contested Bristol Short Story Prize for 2011 with a boxing-themed tale.    Her story My Girl was judged best out of a record 2,100 entries from more than 30 countries, … Continue reading →

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Sarah Bakewell wins 2011 Duff Cooper prize

Posted on March 8, 2011 by Clare Spencer

Sarah Bakewell, associate lecturer for Creative writing (A215), was announced the winner of the 2011 Duff Cooper Prize on 22 February.   Critically acclaimed, her biography of Montaigne, How to Live: A life of Montaigne, was previously one of only three … Continue reading →

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