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Fathom Prize 2010 After the success of the 2008 competition, it seemed a natural step to open the prize up to include poetry and Fathom Writers is thrilled that Frances Leviston, one of the country’s foremost poets, will judge. The highly-regarded novelist and short story writer William Bedford will judge the story prize. The 2010 competition promises to be the Humber region’s premiere literary prize. Entries are welcome from anyone living or working in Hull, the East Riding of Yorkshire, North and North East Lincolnshire. With a closing date of 31 August, 2010, there’s plenty of opportunity for writers to get to work and submit their stories and poems. Entry fees are £5 per story and £3 per poem. Fathom Writers subscribers can submit their first 3 poems or 2 stories free of charge. With a £150 first prize, £100 second, £50 third, there’s plenty of incentive, especially as shortlisted poems and stories will be published in the Fathom Prize Anthology 2010. Please click here to download the submission guidelines Download your application form here
ABOUT THE JUDGES Frances Leviston was born in Edinburgh in 1982, and grew up in Sheffield. She read English at St Hilda’s College, Oxford, where she won the Lord Alfred Douglas Prize for Poetry in 2003. She has an MA in Writing from Sheffield Hallam University. Her pamphlet Lighter (Mews Press, 2004) was selected as the PBS Bulletin Pamphlet Choice for Spring 2005, and her poems have appeared in the Times, the TLS, The Guardian, British Council/Granta New Writing 14, Poetry London, Poetry Review and AnOther Magazine. She received an Eric Gregory Award in 2006. Her first collection, Public Dream, was published by Picador in 2007. She has worked as a bookseller, a secretary, a writing tutor, and a snowboarding instructor, and reviews poetry for publications including the TLS, the Guardian, and the Yorkshire Post.
William Bedford left school at fifteen to work on the east coast fishdocks, fairgrounds and farms before moving with his family to an American nuclear rocket base in a remote area of north Lincolnshire. At nineteen, he left Lincolnshire, and spent 10 years working as a Lloyds Broker in the City of London, becoming administrative director of one of the largest brokers in East Anglia before turning to academic life. He became a full-time novelist and children’s writer in 1984 and he is currently Royal Literary Fund Fellow at Oxford Brookes University. William received a Yorkshire Arts Award in 2000 for the publication of The Redlit Boys and a Royal Literary Fund Award in 2007. His first novel, Happiland, was runner-up for the 1990 Guardian Fiction Prize. Several of his short stories were broadcast on BBC Radio 4’s Morning Story. “Orchards” appeared in the anthology God gives nuts to those who have no teeth (Heinemann, l990) and “ Graceland” appeared in The Daily Telegraph Book of Contemporary Short Stories (Headline, 1995). His selected short stories and non-fiction – None of the Cadillacs Was Pink – has recently been published. FATHOM PRESS Fathom Press was set up in 2007 with the aim of promoting writing around the Humber and publishing books with a regional focus. Its first publications, Ropeworks and Family Ties, explored the industrial heritage and told the story of the lives of the workers of Hall’s Barton Ropery. The first Fathom Prize Anthology was published in December 2008. In June 2009, Fathom Press published The Women They Left Behind, a compelling account of the lives of women involved in Grimsby’s fishing industry, which attracted national interest following a feature on BBC R4 Woman’s Hour.
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