Tale of friends reuniting and secrets unravelling will be published by the Guardian in award run jointly with publisher 4th Estate
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A story about a young woman encountering a childhood friend has won the 4thWrite short story prize for unpublished writers of colour.
Olivia Douglass’s Ink concerns the reunion of the two friends that results in shared secrets unravelling. The author and judge Sara Collins said the story had her “in its grip from beginning to end and for a long while afterwards”, and was “exactly” what she looked for in a short story.
