28th October, 2016

Jasmine Donahaye shortlisted for V S Pritchett Memorial Prize

Jasmine Donahaye, author of Wales Book of the Year Non-Fiction winner, Losing Israel, has been shortlisted for the V S Pritchett Memorial Prize.
The annual prize of £1,000 is awarded to the best unpublished short story of the year. and Jasmine’s short story, ‘Theft’, a “haunting” period piece that harks back to its narrator’s experiences as an 11 year-old country girl hired to help a couple of visiting gentry collect birds’ eggs in remote bog-land, is among the four shortlisted.
On the judging panel are Sara Taylor, an American writer living in Norwich, author Aamer Hussein, and chief fiction reviewer for The Sunday Times and member of the RSL Council, Peter Kemp.
The winner will be announced at a public event featuring Ali Smith on Thursday 17th November.
The winning entry will be published in Prospect magazine and in RSL Review.