BBC National Short Story Award

BBC National Short Story Award is a British literary award for short stories. It was founded in 2005 by the NESTA (the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts) with support from BBC Radio 4 and Prospect magazine.^[1] The winner receives £15,000 for a single short-story.^[1]^[2] The award was originally known as 'National Short Story Award' and renamed to 'BBC' starting in 2008 to reflect the current sponsor.^[1]

The award has been called the richest prize in the world for a single short story,^[2] however the Sunday Times EFG Private Bank Short Story Award is greater at £30,000.^[3]

Normally the award is open to British authors only, in 2012 the award was opened to a global audience for one year only in honour of the 2012 Summer Olympics which were hosted in London.^[4]

Winners[]

2006 – "An Anxious Man", James Lasdun
2007 – "The Orphan and the Mob", Julian Gough
2008 – "The Numbers", Clare Wigfall^[2]
2009 – "The Not-Dead and the Saved", Kate Clanchy
2010 – "Tea at the Midland", David Constantine
2011 – "The Dead Roads", D. W. Wilson
2012 – "East of the West", Miroslav Penkov^[4]^[5]
2013 – "Mrs Fox, Sarah Hall^[6]^[7]
2014 – "Kilifi Creek", Lionel Shriver^[8]
2015 – "Briar Road", ^[9]
2016 – "Disappearances", ^[10]
2017 – "The Edge of the Shoal", Cynan Jones^[11]
2018 – "The Sweet Sop", Ingrid Persaud^[12]
2019 – "The Invisible", ^[13]
2020 – "The Grotesques", Sarah Hall^[14]
2021 – "All the People Were Mean and Bad", Lucy Caldwell^[15]

References[]

^ ^a ^b ^c "BBC National Short Story Prize wepage". BBC. Retrieved September 14, 2012.
^ ^a ^b ^c Richard Lea (4 July 2008). "Field narrows in race for richest story award". The Guardian. Retrieved September 29, 2012.
^ Staff writer (19 February 2012). "OMG: Text speak short story in running for £30,000 prize". The Telegraph. Retrieved January 22, 2013.
^ ^a ^b Alison Flood (September 14, 2012). "Deborah Levy joins shortlist for BBC international short story award". The Guardian. Retrieved September 14, 2012.
^ Alison Flood (3 October 2012). "Miroslav Penkov wins BBC international short story award". The Guardian. Retrieved 3 October 2012.
^ Liz Bury (8 October 2013). "Sarah Hall's tale of woman who turns into a fox wins BBC short story award". The Guardian. Retrieved October 20, 2013.
^ "Sarah Hall wins the BBC National Short Story Award". BBC. 8 October 2013. Retrieved October 20, 2013.
^ "Lionel Shriver wins BBC National Short Story Award". BBC News. September 30, 2014.
^ "Jonathan Buckley wins BBC National Short Story Award". BBC. October 6, 2015.
^ "Debut writer KJ Orr beats Hilary Mantel to short story prize". BBC News. 4 October 2016. Retrieved 4 October 2016.
^ Flood, Alison (3 October 2017). "BBC national short story award goes to Cynan Jones". The Guardian. Retrieved 30 December 2017.
^ "Ingrid Persaud wins BBC short story award". BBC News. 2 October 2018. Retrieved 3 October 2018.
^ "Welsh writer Jo Lloyd wins BBC Short Story prize". BBC. 1 October 2019. Retrieved 2 October 2019.
^ "Sarah Hall becomes first writer to win BBC National Short Story Award twice". BBC National Short Story Award. October 21, 2020. Retrieved October 21, 2020.
^ Flood, Alison (19 October 2021). "Lucy Caldwell wins BBC national short story award for 'masterful' tale". The Guardian. Retrieved 19 October 2021.

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