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Hult Tutor wins 2nd place in coveted literary prize

SI Leeds Literary Prize is the prize for unpublished fiction by Black and Asian women resident in the UK aged 18 years and over.

The winner of the 2014 Prize was announced on Wednesday 15 October at a memorable award ceremony as part of Ilkley Literature Festival.

Mahsuda Snaith won the SI Leeds Literary Prize 2014 for The Constellation of Ravine Roy.

Season Butler (a tutor at Hult International Business School London) won 2nd prize for Hanging from the Hammer of the Bell, and Anita Sivakumaran won 3rd prize for The Queen.

The prize has been created and run by Soroptimist International of Leeds, in partnership with two well established and highly regarded literary organisations, the Ilkley Literature Festival and independent publishers Peepal Tree Press.

The prize aims to act as a loudspeaker for Black and Asian women’s voices, and a platform to discover exciting new talent, from a group largely under-represented on our bookshelves. With support from Arts Council England, the Prize has developed additional partnerships to enable increased support for our winning writers in 2014, through Arvon and The Literary Consultancy, as well as free writing workshops in partnership with Writing on the Wall and Leeds Libraries.

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Victoria Robinson .