let the words burst out of you
Winners of the 2017 GRIST competition
1st place
Ruby Cowling - Mating Week
2nd Prize
Tracy Fells - Coping Mechanism
3rd Prize
Martin Nathan - Salvage
Highly Commended
Olivia Randall - Space Diving
GRIST BOOKS POINT OF VIEW COMPETITION 2015
Calling all amateur and published writers! Grist Books are delighted to announce that they are publishing a collection of 5 books in 2016 simply titled ‘I’, ‘You’, ‘He’, ‘She’, ‘It’. Entrants should submit either short stories or poetry and can submit multiple entries. Each book is written in a different narrative voice and the entries should by either from a first, second or third person perspective. Names will be also be removed from entries when being judged.
The top three winners of the competition will win prize money and have their work showcased at a prestigious literary event; the winners from last year had their books launched at the Huddersfield Literature Festival. This is a great opportunity for amateur writers to have their work published alongside established authors. Previous publications from competition winners include A Call in the Night by Gabrielle Leimon, Cowbody Genes by Wes Lee and Escape Kit by William Thirsk-Gaskill.
The competition will be judged by five published writers, Helen Mort, Steve Ely, Sam Jordison, Ben Myers and Steve Finbow. Helen Mort is a published poet whom has received many awards for her work including the Fenton Aldeburgh First Collection Prize and, in 2014, she was named as a 'Next Generation Poet'. Steve Ely is a poet and novelist who has been nominated for several awards for his poetry collections and has recently published a biography of Ted Hughes. Sam Jordison is a writer and journalist for The Guardian and the co-director of Galley Beggar Press and of the Crap Towns series of books. Ben Myers is a novelist, poet and biographer who has won and been shortlisted for many prestigious literary awards. Steve Finbow is a writer and lecturer who has written for the stage, as well as writing novels and biographies.
ENTRY DETAILS:
- CLOSING DATE: 31st January 2016
- Entry Fee: £5
- Multiple submissions welcome
- Maximum 5,000 words or 40 lines of poetry
- First prize £500, Second Prize £250, Third Prize £125
How to enter
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Please click here to pay the £5 entry fee
You will be given an order number, please include this in your email.
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Please click here to email your entry or email - grist@hud.ac.uk(don't forget to include your HUD purchase number).
The GRIST 2013
CHAPBOOK COMPETITION
The winners of the GRIST CHAPBOOK COMPETITION 2013 are:
- Gabrielle Leimon The Huddersfield Story Collection
- William Thirsk-Gaskill Escape Kit
- Wes Lee Cowboy Genes
The shortlisted writers were:
- Bill Lythgoe Is This The End?
- Gabrielle Leimon The Huddersfield Story Collection
- Jack Senior Poetry
- Roger Jefferies Clapham Junction and Other Stories
- William Thirsk-Gaskill Escape Kit
- Wes Lee Cowboy Genes
And this is the longlist
- Angela Sherlock Exports and Other Stories
- Bill Lythgoe Is This The End?
- Gabrielle Leimon Suffer and Serve
- Gabrielle Leimon The Huddersfield Story Collection
- Jack Senior Poetry
- Mari Ellis Dunning Between The Sheets
- Ralph Dartford The Riots
- Roger Jefferies Land of Smiles
- Roger Jefferies Clapham Junction and Other Stories
- Roger Jefferies They’ll Believe It
- William Thirsk-Gaskill Escape Kit
- William Thirsk-Gaskill Submarine Dreams
- William Thirsk-Gaskill Throwing Mother in The Skip
- Lefty Caligari After A Century of Shadows
- Wes Lee Cowboy Genes
- Wes Lee Decoy Birds
Well done to all the winners and well done to all those who were shortlisted and longlisted.
We are now working on production of the books and will have news for you soon.
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The GRIST 2013 CHAPBOOK COMPETITION
GRIST wants to publish the 6 best chapbooks at the end of 2013
We are looking for single collections of
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About the books
- Each book will have its own professionally designed jacket with a spine, an individual ISBN and be between 25 and 40 pages in length.
- The books will exist as both conventional paperbacks and e-books.
- Writers will be paid royalties of 10% paperback, 30% e-book.
- In addition, the books will be sent to a selection of libraries, publishers, agents and other interested parties.
- You can enter if you have never had a single collection of your work professionally published.
- The work may have been published separately but not as a complete collection.
How to enter
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Please click here to pay the £10 entry fee
You will be given an order number starting HUD, please include this in your email when you upload your story.
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Please click here to email your story or email - grist@hud.ac.uk(don't forget to include your HUD purchase number).
You can enter as many times as you like, £10 per entry.
OR post to:
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GRIST
School of Music, Humanities and Media
The University of Huddersfield
Queensgate
Huddersfield
HD1 3DH
With a cheque for £10 made out to ‘Grist Books’.
Details
All submissions to be standard MS format
ALL WORK WILL HAVE IDENTIFYING NAMES REMOVED BEFORE BEING PASSED OVER TO THE TEAM OF JUDGES
NB standard format:
Prose: 12 point, double spaced, single-sided, with indent rather than blank lines between paragraphs.
Poetry: 12 point, single-spaced, left justified, with no more than one poem per page.
GRIST Competition Winners 2011
Short Fiction:
1st (£500) - Alexander McQueen On Your Birthday by Wes Lee
2nd (£250) - Dance With a Skeleton by William Thirsk-Gaskill
3rd (£100) - A Crack by Tania Spooner
Poetry:
1st (£500) - Musk of the Full Moon by Tim Ellis
2nd (£250) - The Boats by Nicky Summerson
3rd (£100) - In Praise of The Office Cleaner by Geraldine Clarkson
GRIST competition 2011
In association with the Huddersfield Literature Festival 2011
GRIST Short Fiction – Short List
Name of Entrant |
Title of Entry |
Tania Spooner |
A Crack |
Stephen McQuiggan |
Featherblade |
Dave Pescod |
The Archeologist’s Wife |
John Todd |
The House Next Door |
Wes Lee |
Alexander McQueen On Your Birthday |
Jo Else |
My Hard Luck |
Ben Cheetham |
A Perfectly Normal Man |
Rosie Jones |
Our Candyfloss Beach |
Dan Malach |
Sabotaging Bobby |
Suzi Lester |
Chicken in a Cold Climate |
William Thirsk-Gaskill |
Slow Dance With a Skeleton |
GRIST Poetry – Short List
Name of Entrant |
Title of Entry |
Becky Cherriman |
Behind The Eye |
Geraldine Clarkson |
In Praise Of The Office Cleaner |
Jaime Henley |
We Made Another World In Our Kitchen |
Sharon Black |
Love Is Not |
Tim O'Leary |
From Unbeautiful Things |
Nicky Summerson |
The Boats |
Josephine Corcoron |
Enchantment |
Julie Mellor |
The Moment |
David J. Costello |
Centurion |
Pete Adern |
Sensible Shoes |
Matt O'Brien |
A hermit with a parking permit |
Julian Turner |
Cargo Cult |
Tim Ellis |
The musk of the full moon |
Nina Boyd |
Trick or Treat |
Char March |
Wings R Us |
Many thanks to the judges: Helen Simpson, Lemn Sissay, David Gill, Gaia Holmes, Mark Ellis and Michael Stewart; for all their hard work.
All of the above are winners and will be published later this year. More information soon. In addition, there will be cash prizes of first (£500), second (£250) and third (£100) which will be announced at the launch of the Huddersfield Literature Festival 2011 at 7.30pm 16 March, Sleepers Bar, Huddersfield.
http://www.litfest.org.uk/
GRIST Short Story Competition 2008
Winners
Short Fiction:
1st - Indigo Runway by Jess Richards (£250 plus £150 book tokens)
2nd - Martin in a Hole by Brindley Hallam Dennis (£150 plus £100 book tokens)
3rd - Stinky by Ben Cheetham (£100 plus £50 book tokens)
Poetry:
1st - The Birdbath's Saying 'Dive' by Jonathan Asser (£250 plus £150 book tokens)
2nd - The Fishing Trip by Hilary J Murray (£150 plus £100 book tokens)
3rd - Poem for the Love Lane Crow by Gareth Durasow (£100 plus £50 book tokens)
Grist Competition Shortlists
In association with the Huddersfield Literature Festival 2009
GRIST Short Fiction – Short List
Name of Entrant |
Title of Entry |
Ben Cheetham |
Stinky |
Wes Lee |
This Moment Between Things |
Katherine Spink |
The Unknown Boxer Shorts |
Penny Aldrid |
A Dangerous Crossing |
Jess Richards |
Indigo Runaway |
Glenn Carmichael |
Today I Changed a Baby |
Timothy Allsop |
Dipps, The Goose and the Gooley Goo |
Kyrill Potapov |
Unicorns Don’t Have Wings |
Cath Humphries |
Between Floors |
Mick Haining |
26,298 |
John Glander |
Don’t Step on the Cracks |
Brindley Hallam Dennis |
Martin in a Hole |
Paul Duncan |
Snappy |
Louis Malloy |
The Citizens |
Natalya Lowndes |
Tits Like Elephant’s Ears |
Christopher Parvin |
Vanilla Grave Dirt |
GRIST Poetry – Short List
Name of Entrant |
Title of Entry |
Andrew Macmillan |
Dad |
Len Evans |
Brothers of the Hood |
Kate Dempsey |
The Flight of Swallows |
Roger Elkin |
Game Game |
Jonathan Asser |
The Birdbath Saying Dive |
Gareth Durasow |
Poem for the Love Lane Crow |
Lyn Roberts |
Thin Red Line |
Kelly Stanger |
Lost and Found |
Nina Boyd |
Deadheading |
Julie Mellor |
Paper Flowers |
Glynis Charlton |
The Shave |
Andrea Tang |
This is Disaster Poetry |
Justine Warden |
Love Poem No 32 |
Hilary J Murray |
Fishing Trip |
Karl O’Neil |
Conjuror |
Jacquie Shanahan |
Song Thrush |
Skye Loneragan |
Buying into the Property Market |
Ami Rosingrave |
The Elephant Who Came To Tea |
Beda Higgins |
DA’s Dublin 2008 |
Fiona Durance |
Teaching Beginners Poetry |
The winners were announced at the launch of the 4th Huddersfield Literature Festival 2009 on Wednesday 11 March.
Judges
Joanne Harris 2008/9 Short Story Judge
Joanne Harris was born in Barnsley in 1964, of a French mother and an English father. She studied Modern and Mediaeval Languages at St Catharine’s College, Cambridge and was a teacher for fifteen years, during which time she published three novels; The Evil Seed (1989), Sleep, Pale Sister (1993) and Chocolat (1999), which was made into an Oscar-nominated film starring Juliette Binoche and Johnny Depp
Since then, she has written seven more novels; Blackberry Wine, Five Quarters of the Orange, Coastliners, Holy Fools, Gentlemen and Players, and, most recently, The Lollipop Shoes and Runemarks, plus; Jigs & Reels, a collection of short stories. Her books are now published in over 40 countries and have won a number of British and international awards. In 2004, Joanne was one of the judges of the Whitbread prize (categories; first novel and overall winner); and in 2005 she was a judge of the Orange prize.
© Magali Delporte
Simon Armitage 2008/9 Poetry Judge
Simon Armitage was born in 1963 and lives in West Yorkshire.
He has published nine volumes of poetry including Killing Time, 1999 (Faber & Faber) and Selected Poems, 2001 (Faber & Faber) His most recent collections are The Universal Home Doctor and Travelling Songs, both published by Faber & Faber in 2002, and most recently Gig: The Life and Times of a Rock-star Fantasist (Viking) . He has received numerous awards for his poetry including the Sunday Times Author of the Year, one of the first Forward Prizes and a Lannan Award.
He writes for radio, television and film, and is the author of four stage plays. His first novel, Little Green Man, was published by Penguin in 2001. His second novel The White Stuff was published in 2004.
© Jonty Wilde
