Costa Short Story Award Winners Announced.
The Awards for 2016 go to:
Winner: Jess Kidd for Dirty Little Fishes
Second place: Billy O’Callaghan for The Boatman
Third place: Rob Ewing for The Persistence of Memory
There is more information about the authors on Costa’s website, and if you didn’t have time to read
(or listen) to the stories over Christmas you still can read them here:
http://www.costa.co.uk/costa-book-awards/costa-short-story-award/
The Prestigious Costa Book of the Year has been announced!
The Irish writer, Sebastian Barry who previously won the £30,000 prize in 2008 with The Secret Scripture has become the first novelist to win the Costa Book of the Year prize twice with his new novel Days Without End.
Days without End is a historical fiction set in the 1850s and tells the story of two Irish soldiers who go to fight in the US.
The judges described the book as “a searing, magnificent and moving description of how the West was won”.
At the beginning of January, Barry’s novel was named as one of the five Costa category winners alongside the other prizes for first novel, poetry, children’s book and biography
The Costa Book Awards Category Winners have been announced!
COSTA FIRST NOVEL AWARD WINNER 2016
COSTA NOVEL AWARD WINNER 2016
COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD WINNER 2016
COSTA POETRY AWARD WINNER 2016
COSTA CHILDREN’S BOOK AWARD WINNER 2016
The Costa Book of the Year will be announced on 31st January 2017.
The Costa Short Story Winner will also be announced at the end of January 2017.
We will bring you news of that when it is announced.
For more details go to
http://www.costa.co.uk/costa-book-awards/welcome/
Holiday’s are here. You need a bit of quiet time, but can’t think what to do. How about reading some short stories?
The Costa Short Story Prize has published their short-list of three stories, and they want you to tell them which one is the best! Who will win? Will it be “Dirty Little Fishes”, “The Boatman” or “The Persistence of Memory”?
Go to their website at http://www.costa.co.uk/costa-book-awards/costa-short-story-award/ where you can either download the stories or listen to them (if the Christmas movies have tired your eyes!). Then vote if you like any of them.
Voting ends at midnight on Friday 13th January 2017.
Happy Christmas and happy reading, and don’t forget to pop into Bream Community Library to get your other Christmas reading.
