World’s richest prize for a short story, worth £30,000, launches today


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 StorAward 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

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