Andrew O’Hagan, Lionel Shriver and Sarah Waters join Joanna Trollope and Andrew Holgate to judge the fourth Sunday Times EFG Private Bank Short Story Award
A prestigious panel of judges has been announced for theworld’s most valuable prize for a single short story. Novelist Joanna Trollope returns to the panel to judge the £30,000 Sunday Times EFG Private Bank Short Story Award for the second consecutive year.
She will be joined by award-winning novelists Andrew O’Hagan, Lionel Shriver and Sarah Waters. Completing the line-up are Andrew Holgate, Literary Editor of The Sunday Times, and Matthew Evans,Chairman of EFG Private Bank andthe non-voting Chair of Judges.
The submission process for the fourth Sunday Times EFG Private Bank Short Story Award is nowopen. The deadline for submissions is 21 September 2012.
Key dates:
• 21 September 2012: deadline for submissions
• 20 January2013: longlist announced
• 24 February 2013: shortlist announced
• 22 March 2013: winner announced at a special event at TheSunday Times Oxford Literary Festival