Midlands based writer Sukhraj Kaur Randhawa has triumphed over 200 aspiring writers to win the seventh Orange/Harper’s Bazaar Short Story Competition 2008. Judge and Editor of Harper’s Bazaar, Lucy Yeomans, presented a cheque for £1,000 to Sukhraj Kaur Randhawa at the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction awards ceremony at the Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre …
Nikita Lalwani's Gifted Glitters at the Desmond Elliot Prize 2008
Nikita Lalwani was tonight (Thursday, 26th June) named the winner of the £10,000 Desmond Elliott Prize for Gifted, a story about a maths prodigy growing up in 1980s Cardiff, published by Penguin Books. Penny Vincenzi, Chair of the Judges, said: “Gifted is a book of extraordinary range; it is touching, tender, funny and at the …
Tahmima Anam’s Golden Age starts here?
Tahmima Anam has become the first Bangladeshi writer to win the Overall First Book Award at The Commonwealth Writers Prize 2008. The winners were announced at the Franschhoek Literary Festival in South Africa on May 18. The Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, an increasingly valued and sought-after award for fiction, is presented annually by the Commonwealth Foundation. …
Bedtime Story by Kashif Choudhry
Kashif Choudhry is 28 and lives in Solihull. He spent parts of his childhood in Saudi Arabia before moving to the UK and fulfilling a life long ambition by qualifying as a doctor. He currently works for the NHS. He began writing two years ago. He is a fan of the short story art form …
Getting to know Sathnam Sanghera
Sathnam Sanghera was born in Wolverhampton in 1976. He graduated from Cambridge with a first class degree in English Language and Literature. He currently works as a British journalist and writes a weekly Business LifeThe Times. If You Don’t Know Me By Now is his first book. To find out more about you can visit …
Cold by Nalini Paul
“Try shrinking your ego and expanding your brain!” she yelled. “Eh? I got a distinction in Physics and a scholarship for my masters…and you’re telling me to expand my brain?” She marched out and slammed the door so hard that I thought the cottage would crumble to the ground. An image rushed to my head …
A True Verdict by Anthony Padman
Anthony Padman was born in Malaya (as it was then called) and educated in schools in Malaya and Singapore. Later, he went for tertiary studies to the United Kingdom. He graduated with a Law Degree from the University of Wales and subsequently called to the English Bar. He has both taught and practised Law in …
When the Mountains are Scattered as Dust by Fatima Martin
Fatima Martin was brought up a Catholic in Austria. She studied Arabic and Islamic Studies at Vienna University during which time she was granted scholarships to learn Arabic in Egypt and Sudan. After graduation she went travelling, ending up in Jerusalem where she met her spiritual teacher deputy mufti of the Al-Aqsa Mosque. Having said …
Not in My Name by Anita Khan
Anita Khan is 25 and lives in High Wycombe. She works with young people and the community. Her social and political outlook shapes her work and her writing. Anita writes short stories, poetry and articles tackling social issues for a local newsletter. Not in My Name Not in my name, The bloodshed and devastation. Driven …
The X to the Y by Zed Rahman
It was Oscar Wilde that once wrote, ‘All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his’. I’m not sure I quite agree with you Oscar but I’m hardly going to argue with one of the most prolific writers of the 19th century. Mainly because you’re a very intelligent man …