Glasgow Student Short Story Prize 2009

Judged by A.L. Kennedy
Edited by Elisabeth Ingram, Rebecca CF Bradburd and Jose Velazquez

Contibutor Biographies

A. L. Kennedy is the author of five novels, two books of non-fiction, and five collections of short stories. Her most recent novel, Day, was the 2007 Costa Book of the Year. She has twice been selected as one of Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists and has won many prizes including the Lannan Literary Award, the Austrian State Prize for European Literature, the Somerset Maugham Award, the Encore Award and the Saltire Scottish Book of the Year Award. She lives in Glasgow and is a part-time lecturer in creative writing at Warwick University.

Elisabeth Ingram writes short stories. In 2009 she received a Dewar Arts Award, which supported her MLitt in Creative Writing at Glasgow University.  She has been published in the New Writing Scotland Anthology ‘In the Event of Fire', and also has a short story in the upcoming MLitt anthology Hunger.  She is currently writing a collection of stories, and blogs about writing at iluvwords.blogspot.com

Rebecca CF Bradburd is a student on Glasgow University's creative writing Mlitt program, and a writer of speculative/experimental fiction. She originally hails from the United States.

José C. Velazquez writes screenplays and prose, and is an MLitt student at Glasgow University. He is co-editor of From Glasgow to Saturn.