The Florence Staniforth Student Fiction Prize is now open for entries, with a submission deadline for a short story on Friday 18th February
The Prize is for Lucy Cavendish Students in all subjects. Students need to submit a short story with a word limit of 4000 words to Ella Barrett at fictionprize@lucy.cam.ac.uk. Please use font size 12 and double-spaced lines. Entries must be anonymised.
Submissions deadline is Friday 18th February at 12 noon. Entry to the Prize is free. If you have any questions please contact fictionprize@lucy.cam.ac.uk.
The College has a strong tradition of supporting and celebrating creative writers with the Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize being testament to this. It has been the catalyst for numerous bestselling debuts and emerging literary talent. The College introduced a prize for its own students too; the Florence Staniforth Student Fiction Prize.
Funded by the Florence Staniforth Award for Excellence in Creative Writing, the prize is for students from any discipline studying at Lucy Cavendish College.
Students are invited to submit a short story to a panel of judges led by Fellow Emerita Dr Isobel Maddison. Also on the panel is Lucy Cavendish Director of Studies in English Dr Alexander Freer, published author and creative writing teacher Miranda Doyle, and author and scholar Padma Viswanathan.
The winner of the Student Prize will be awarded £100 and will be announced on the same evening as the main Fiction Prize award ceremony.
Dr Freer says: “The short story is a compelling creative medium and has been important for countless writers from James Baldwin to Alice Munro. It's also an excellent form for new writers to experiment and hone their craft by focusing on a single narrative incident, scene or thread. We welcome entries from students of all levels of experience and all academic disciplines, and look forward to reading a wide range of styles and subjects.”
To enter please send your short story to Ella Barrett at fictionprize@lucy.cam.ac.uk