The high quality of work produced by the University of Chichester's English and Creative Department has been underlined once again with national awards for current students and lecturers.
Chichester put its stamp on this year's Bridport Competition, which bills itself as ‘the richest open prize' with a total prize fund of £14,000 and attracting almost 15,000 entries in three categories: short stories, flash fiction and poetry.
Two of the University's postgraduate students won supplementary prizes in the short story competition. Honoria Beirne, who is in the final stages of an MA, received a prize for her story Shake Me, Shake Me, and Katherine Orr, currently studying for a PhD, received her prize for The Human Circadian Pacemaker.
Senior lecturer Dave Swann was long-listed in the poetry category, while associate lecturer Jane Rusbridge was the guest writer at the Bridport Literary Festival, at which the winners of the Bridport Competition are announced.
Jane has another reason to celebrate, as her novel The Devil's Music has been nominated for the 2011 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, the world's most valuable annual literary prize for a single work of fiction published in English. Nominations to win the first prize of 100,000 euros come from libraries around the world – Jane's novel was nominated by a library in Finland. The shortlist will be announced in April 2011.
More information on the Chichester winners at the Bridport Competition can be found on the Thresholds website.
Further student success has come courtesy of Jac Cattaneo, who has won the Royal Academy of Arts short story competitions 2010. Jac, studying for an MA at the University, won the prize for her story Lessons in Tightrope Walking. Further information can be found in an article on the Thresholds website.
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