The Arthur Conan Doyle Prize for New Fiction is a literary short story competition for unpublished writers. In 2008 this competition attracted over 30 entries, including some from the USA and Australia.
Entries for the shortlist were selected by a panel which included Sam North, Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing and Course Leader for the MA in Creative Writing at the University of Portsmouth, and the Collection's Academic Director Neil McCaw, who is Senior Lecturer and Programme Director of Creative Writing at the University of Winchester. The acclaimed crime writer Michelle Spring judged the shortlisted entries, and awarded the prizes on 20 May 2008.
The overall winner was Susannah Rickards's "The Partners of the Periphery", a powerful account of the bravery of a blind man and a child during the Nazi occupation of France.
All of the shortlisted entries are available for download in PDF format.
Overall winner:
- "The Partners of the Periphery" by Susannah Rickards
Contemporary Detective Fiction category:
- Winner: "The Chettiar Heirloom" by R. Rama Varma
- Shortlisted: "Be Sure Your Sins" by Frank Dineen
- Shortlisted: "The Zircon Transplants" by John Dowse
Historical Detective Fiction category:
- Winner: "The Pasion Contract" by Gary Corby
- Shortlisted: "The Late Cuckoo" by Nigel Armitage
- Shortlisted: "The Mystery of the Newly-Married Man" by Colin Henchley
- Shortlisted: "Winter at Gannet Bay" by Eric Lehman
- Shortlisted: "The Innocent Lamb" by Nick Morrish
Adventure Fiction category:
- Winner: "The Darkness" by John Millard
- Shortlisted: "In Search of Federico" by Margaret Mackay
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