Short story competitions

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Asham Award

Britain's only prize for short stories by women.

Waving at the Gardener, the anthology of winning stories from the 2009 Asham Award, will be published by Bloomsbury in September.

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The short story form is better suited to the demands of modern life than the novel.
Simon Prosser Publishing Director Hamish Hamilton

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