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Author long-listed for award
Writer hoping to be short-listed for Sunday Times prize
AN AUTHOR has been long-listed for the Sunday Times EFG Private Bank Short Story Award.
Potton resident Adam Marek is among 20 writers on the longlist for the newspaper's competition, offering a first prize of 25,000.
The list for the competition, open to authors of published work only, will be whittled down to a final six on Sunday, and Adam, 36, is hoping to be among them.
Adam, who lives in Everton Road with his wife Naomi and two young children, was delighted to receive a call informing him that he had made the longlist after he submitted Fewer Things, a story about a father and son who visit a remote Scottish island.
In his job as an editor at the RSPB's offices in Sandy, Adam writes a lot about birdlife and the tale concerns the pair's encounter with some seabirds on the island.
He said it was an honour to appear in the longlist.
"I was delighted, especially as the competition is so tough - they had more than 1,100 entrants and the competition was open to anyone who had had work published in the UK - they had people entering from all over the world.
"There are some popular and very highly-rated writers on there, too - people like Rose Tremain and Helen Simpson."
Writing has always been a passion for Adam, who has lived in Potton for ten years.
For the full story see the March 5 edition of the Biggleswade Chronicle.
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