The Sisters in Crime organization has announced that Sarah St. Asaph, a resident of London, England, has won its 2022 Pride Award, a commendation given to “emerging LGBTQIA+ writers.”
A news release goes on to explain that St. Asaph’s “winning novel-in-progress is a contemporary medical-legal crime mystery where a young lawyer is given the chance to re-examine the evidence against a former hospital doctor that has been convicted as Britain’s worst-ever female serial killer. The novel explores how women are treated within the criminal justice system and plays with the prejudices and preconceptions they face as perpetrators of crimes.”
St. Asaph’s submission was chosen from among 58 entries to this year’s Pride Award competition. As part of that honor, St. Asaph—who describes herself as “a lifelong lover of crime and mystery literature”—is set to receive a $2,000 grant “intended for a beginning crime writer to support activities related to career development, including workshops, seminars, conferences, retreats, online courses, and research activities required for completion of their work.” In addition, she will be given a Sisters in Crime membership, and her manuscript will be critiqued by Crooked Lane Books editor Terri Bischoff.
There are also five runners-up in this contest. Each of them will be put in contact with “an established Sisters in Crime member author” who can help them develop their own manuscripts. They are: C. Jean Downer of White Rock, British Columbia (to be matched with Cheryl Head), Diane Carmony of La Quinta, California (Jeffrey Marks), Roy Udeh-Ubaka of Gainesville, Florida (Anne Laughlin), Marle Redfern of New England (John Copenhaver), and Elaine Westnott-O’Brien of Tramore, County Waterford, Ireland (Catherine Maiorisi).
Congratulations to all of this year's contenders!
Monday, November 07, 2022
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3 comments:
On a pedantic note, it should be St. Asaph, not Asaph. It's a bishopric city in North Wales.
As it's also almost certainly a pseudonym, how did Sisters in crime check that Sarah St. Asaph is LGBTQIA+, or even a woman?
My inclination, of course, was to use "St. Asaph," but the Sisters in Crime news release uses only "Asaph," so I followed that pattern. But with your backing, "Anonymous," I have changed it back to "St. Asaph."
I have no information about Sisters in Crime's authentication methods, relative to contest entrants.
Cheers,
Jeff
I wondered about Sisters in Crime's authentication methods because there was a stir in the UK some years ago when a publisher announced a book by a muslim woman. When the writer was forced to emerge it turned out to be a male CofE vicar!
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