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Five titles are contenders for first collection prize

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The shortlist for this year’s Fenton Aldeburgh First Collection prize has been announced, chosen by judges Imtiaz Dharker, Robert Seatter (chair) and Anthony Wilson. The shortlisted books are:  Bright Travellers by Fiona Benson (Cape); Moontide by Niall Campbell (Bloodaxe); My Family and Other Superheroes by Jonathan Edwards (Seren); Division Street by Helen Mort (Chatto & Windus); Self-Portrait with the Happiness by David Tait (Smith/Doorstop Books). The winner will be announced at the festival’s opening main reading – on Friday 7 November at 8.30pm – and he or she will receive £2,500, a week of paid “protected” writing time in 2015 on the  Suffolk coast, plus a fee-paying invitation to read at next year’s Aldeburgh poetry festival.

 

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