A new short story prize, courtesy of The White Review

Where to publish my fiction? The question will have occupied all aspiring writers. It is famously hard to publish fiction in Britain, which is why each of the few prizes for unpublished fiction attracts vast attention. There is a new prize in this sparse field: The White Review, the thriving independent quarterly arts journal, has inaugurated a short story prize for unpublished writers.

The competition, which is limited to residents of Great Britain and Ireland, opens on 1 December 2012 and closes on 1 March 2013. Submissions should be made at thewhitereview.org. The prize will be judged by the writer Deborah Levy, Karolina Sutton and Alex Bowler, editorial director at Jonathan Cape. The award will be presented by Booker nominated author Tom McCarthy at a ceremony in April 2013. The winning entry will be published in the print edition of the journal. The winning writer will receive prize money of £2,500 and the chance to meet Karolina Sutton, Senior Agent at Curtis Brown, to discuss publishing opportunities.