Published on 29 January 2020
The University of Sunderland's Academic Registrar Iain Rowan has come second in the 2019 Costa Short Story Award for his story, Birds of the Mountain.
You can read his story here
Established in 2012, the Costa Short Story Award – run in association with the Costa Book Awards but judged independently of the main five-category system – is judged anonymously without the name of the author being known throughout the process.
It is open to both published and unpublished writers for a single, previously unpublished short story of up to 4,000 words by an author aged 18 years or over and written in English.
Iain is a published novelist and short story author and founder and Director of the Sunderland Festival of Creative Writing, and both founded and runs the Sunderland writers’ group, Holmeside Writers.
Congratulations to Iain on his amazing achievement.