SI Leeds Literary Prize: Runners Up Interviews Last Friday we brought you an interview with the winner of the SI Leeds Literary Prize 2012 Minoli Salgdo , who won the award with her fiction A Little Dust on the Eyes , a story of two cousins living in Sri Lanka. Included in the award alongside the first place prize of 2000 and a commissioned trophy by artist Seiko Kinoshita , were a second place prize of 750, and third place was awarded with 250. FBS : What made you decide to submit to the SI Leeds Literary Prize, and could you tell us a little about the piece you submitted? Karen : I had heard from a couple of friends about the Prize and as I'd just finished a redraft of my manuscript Borrowed Light , I thought that I might as well submit it and just see what happened.  I then promptly put it out of my mind, so getting the notification that I'd made it to the long list was an unexpected but much appreciated nudge to persevere with this my writing. Emily : As a woman of mixed ethnic origin (Japanese and English) I was pleased to find a prize that seemed to be pitched directly at someone like me. The novel I submitted explores the subject of mixed race identity and so, right from the outset, the prize seemed to have a particular relevance. A Tiny Speck of Black and then Nothing is set in the