The winners and runners up of this year’s Big Issue in the North Trust short story competition read their stories at a special event on Friday 4th November at the Anthony Burgess Foundation in Manchester.
The winning story of this year’s competition was published across two issues of The Big Issue in the North and the members of the public, friends and family of the winning writers gathered together to hear the stories read out at the fundraising event.
Click on this link to see the winning story being read out. Please note, the story contains some strong language.
The short story competition was organised by The Big Issue in the North Trust in association with The Night Light, an online magazine based in Manchester, and Dead Ink Press. There were a number of other categories as part of the competition, including the Genre Fiction Award in association with Polluto Magazine; Young Writer’s Award (25 and under) in association with The Cadaverine and The Young Writer’s Hub; the Outsider’s Voice Award (writing submitted by people facing social exclusion) in association with Dog Horn Publishing; and Young Black and Asian Writer’s Award in association with Young Inscribe (part of Peepal Tree Press).
www.thenightlight.co.uk are a disorganised co-operative publishing stories, plays, poems, essays and artwork.
