The Mogford Prize for Food and Drink Writing, 2016 – £7,500 to be won!

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There’s a massive prize of £7,500 to be won in the 2016 Mogford Prize for Food and Drink Writing.

In the words of the website at http://www.oxford-hotels-restaurants.co.uk/the-mogford-literary-prize/, “Food and Drink has to be at the heart of the tale. The story could, for instance, be fiction or fact about a chance meeting over a drink, a life-changing conversation over dinner, or a relationship explored through food and drink. It could be crime or intrigue; in fact any subject as long as it involves food and/or drink in some way.”

Entries should be unpublished work and up to 2,500 words in length. One submission is allowed per person, and the closing date is 6 March 2016. Anyone can enter.

The prize will be awarded during the FT Weekend Oxford Literary Festival, to be held from 2 to 10 April 2016 (see http://oxfordliteraryfestival.org/) .

This is the fourth annual Mogford prize competition. The winning entries from the previous three can be found at the Oxford Hotels website listed above. 450 entries were received in 2015.

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Writing with a Slovak or Czech twist? Win £300 and a free dinner

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Fiction or fact – both are welcome in the writing competition run in 2014 by the British Czech and Slovak Association. A first prize of £300 and a second prize of £100 will be awarded to the best 1,500 to 2,000-word pieces of original writing in English on the links between Britain and the Czech/Slovak Republics (or their predecessor states), or describing society in transition in the Republics since 1989. Topics can include history, politics, the sciences, economics, the arts or literature.

The writer of this year’s winning entry will be presented with the prize at the BCSA’s glittering annual dinner in London in November 2014. The winning entry will be published in the December 2014 issue of the British Czech and Slovak Review and the runner-up in a subsequent issue.

Submissions are invited from individuals of any age, nationality or educational background. Entrants do not need to be members of the BCSA. Entry is free. Entries should be received by 30 June 2014. An author may submit any number of entries. Submission guidelines are available from the Prize Administrator or the BCSA website at http://www.bcsa.co.uk/specials.html.
Entries should be submitted by post to the BCSA Prize Administrator, 24 Ferndale, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, TN2 3NS, England, or by e-mail to prize@bcsa.co.uk.

Alice Munro, Nobel laureate

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The Nobel Prize in Literature 2013 has been awarded to Alice Munro, “master of the contemporary short story”. Good to see the short story getting recognised. I’ve not read Alice Munro – any thoughts from people who have? Would this be a suitable hint to drop in family ears for Christmas?