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2007 Rhys Davies Short Story Competition
The Announcement

Wednesday 6 February 2008, 10.30 am
Brazz Restaurant, Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff Bay
Tickets: Brunch - £5 / £4 Workshop - £4 / £3
Book for both the brunch and workshop and get a 25% discount

The results of the 2007 Rhys Davies Short Story Competition will be announced at a prize-giving ceremony on Wednesday 6 February 2008 at 10.30 am. The winners will be announced and the stories read over brunch in Brazz, Wales Millennium Centre. This unique ceremony is a great opportunity to meet the judges, the winners and other local literary enthusiasts and short story writers. The prize-giving will be followed by a master-class in short story writing, open to the public and the prize-winners. 

But before the announcement can be made and the champagne put on ice the judges must decide who will walk away with £1000 for just one story. A further 10 runner–up prizes of £100 are also up for grabs.

Judging the 2007 competition is Tessa Hadley whose own collection of short stories Sunstroke and Other Stories has been published this year by Jonathan Cape. Tessa’s next publication The Master Bedroom also published by Cape will be out shortly. Judging alongside Tessa is Meic Stephens who, as well as founding and editing Poetry Wales up until 1973, has worked as a journalist and arts consultant, was the Literature Director of the Welsh Arts Council from 1967 - 1990 and the University of Glamorgan’s Professor of Welsh Writing in English 2000–2003 (now Emeritus). Award winning poet and children’s novelist Catherine Fisher will act as filter judge for the competition.

For more information on the competition and the prize-giving ceremony contact Academi on
029 2047 2266 or email post@academi.org

The first Rhys Davies Short Story Competition was held in 1991 and was established to extend interest in the work of the Welsh author Rhys Davies and to promote short fiction writing in Wales.

The Rhys Davies Short Story Competition is administered by Academi and sponsored by the Rhys Davies Trust, a charity which has as its aim the fostering of Welsh Writing in English.