Did Nathan win the shortstory competition?

by Adrian Sroka
29th March 2014

Oops, what's happened? Did Nathan win or not?

'Nathan Indarsingh 8 hours ago

I'm very inquisitive... Is there another Nathan Indarsingh in the competition? Because that isn't my piece....

How embarrassing and unprofessional if he didn't.

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Dear All,

Thank you for your comments.

An administrative error was made as both Nathan and Kate's shortlisted entries were titled 'The Visit'. Nathan's name was incorrectly attributed to the winning story, written by Kate. The matter has been dealt with swiftly, and both authors have been contacted by our team and notified of the situation.

Writers & Artists would like to take this opportunity to thank both Nathan and Kate for being so understanding given the confusion.

A genuine administrative mistake, we hope, should not detract from what has been an exceptional competition won by a fantastic piece of writing. Whittling the thousands of entries we received down to a shortlist of ten was incredibly difficult given the high standard of writing, and we would like to thank each and every participant and community member for their continued contributions.

The W&A Team

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Rosa,

It beggars belief.

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I sent a message to the office just after one pm. asking what was going on and please can we have an explanation. This was the reply:-

I am out of the office until Thursday 2nd January. If you have any urgent enquiries, please contact james.rennoldson@bloomsbury.com. !!!

Sounds as though Bloomsbury is coming apart at the seams! Not 2nd April that's a Wednesday. The date of the e-mail was today's and the time was right.

rosa.

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