Costa's new short story award. The £3,500 prize will be for a single, previously unpublished short story of up to 4,000 words. Entries can be submitted until 7 September 2012, with a judging panel featuring the authors Richard Beard, Fanny Blake and Victoria Hislop, the Spandau Ballet songwriter and guitarist Gary Kemp and the literary agent Simon Trewin to pick a shortlist of six from the anonymous lineup. The public will then choose the winner by vote.