Galley Beggar launches short story comp

Independent publisher Galley Beggar Press is launching a short story competition this weekend. The Norwich-based publisher, which originally published Eimear McBride’s Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction winner A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing, said the competition built on the success of its monthly Galley Beggar Singles Club, which releases a new short story every month for readers. The Galley Beggar Press Short Story Prize will run annually, and is open to published and unpublished writers. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

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