Category Archives: awards and prizes

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 →

Posted in awards and prizes, short stories | Leave a comment

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 →

Posted in awards and prizes, performance, plays | Tagged , , | Leave a comment

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 →

Posted in awards and prizes, novels | Tagged , | Leave a comment

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 →

Posted in awards and prizes, short stories | Tagged | Leave a comment

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 →

Posted in awards and prizes, biography | Tagged , , , , | Leave a comment

Amy Sackville wins major fiction prize

Posted on December 9, 2010 by admin

Amy Sackville, Associate Lecturer on  A215 Creative Writing, has won the John Llewellyn Rhys prize for her first novel The Still Point.    The John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, was founded in honour of the writer John Llewellyn Rhys, who was killed … Continue reading →

Posted in awards and prizes | Tagged , | Leave a comment

Creative writing lecturer makes awards shortlist

Posted on November 23, 2010 by admin

Sarah Bakewell, Associate Lecturer on  A215 Creative Writing, is one of only three people to make it onto the Costa Biography Book Award shortlist for 2010. How To Live a Life of Montaigne is the first full life of Montaigne in … Continue reading →

Posted in awards and prizes | Tagged , , | Leave a comment