These awards of £1,000 are financed by bequests made by Miss Nellie Tom-Gallon in memory of her brother, and by Olive Cook. The awards must be made to a writer of fiction who has had at least one short story accepted for publication, and who has serious writing ambitions.

The submitted story should be traditional, rather than experimental, in character, and the financial circumstances of the writer should be taken into account. The awards are both biennial, and are awarded in alternate years.

• The annual deadline for entries is 31st October
• Download the entry form and guidelines here
  

The Olive Cook Award 2010

• Carys Davies received the £1,000 prize for her story, The Quiet

  Carys Davies' short stories have won prizes in national and international competitions, including the Bridport, Asham, Orange/Harpers & Queen, and Fish, appeared in magazines and anthologies, and been broadcast on BBC Radio 4. Some New Ambush, her first published collection of stories, was shortlisted for the 2009 Roland Mathias Prize, longlisted for the 2008 Wales Book of the Year, and was a finalist of the 2008 Calvino Prize in the US. Born in Llangollen, she now lives in Lancaster with her husband and four children and is working on a new collection.

• Susanna Rickards for The Paperback Macbeth and Simon van Booy for Little Birds were commended

Judges: Jane Gardam and Jacob Ross

Further details here.

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