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The Scottish writer John Burnside has won the 2014 Edge Hill Prize for a published short story collection from the UK or Ireland for his collection, Something Like Happy.  The other four finalists were Bernie McGill,  Jaki McCarrick, David Rose and Rachel Trezise who won the Readers' Choice prize, judged by creative writing students at Edge Hill.  The judging panel for the main prize was headed up by last year's winner, Kevin Barry.http://www.edgehill.ac.uk/news/2014/07/edge-hill-short-story-prize-2014-winner-announced/