BBC National Short Story Award is a British
literary award
A literary award or literary prize is an award presented in recognition of a particularly lauded literary piece or body of work. It is normally presented to an author.
Organizations
Most literary awards come with a corresponding award ceremony. ...
for short stories. It was founded in 2005 by the NESTA (the
National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts
Nesta (formerly NESTA, National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts) is an innovation foundation based in the UK.
The organisation acts through a combination of programmes, investment, policy and research, and the formation of part ...
) with support from
BBC Radio 4
BBC Radio 4 is a British national radio station owned and operated by the BBC that replaced the BBC Home Service in 1967. It broadcasts a wide variety of Talk radio, spoken-word programmes, including news, drama, comedy, science and history fro ...
and ''
Prospect'' magazine.
[ The winner receives for a single short-story.][
The award has been called the richest prize in the world for a single short story,][ however the ]Sunday Times EFG Private Bank Short Story Award
The Sunday Times Short Story Award is a British literary award for a single short story open to any novelist or short story writer from around the world who is published in the UK or Ireland. The winner receives £30,000, and the five shortliste ...
is greater at .
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.
Winners
*2006 – "An Anxious Man", James Lasdun
*2007 – "The Orphan and the Mob", Julian Gough
*2008 – "The Numbers", Clare Wigfall
Clare Wigfall (born 1976 in Greenwich, London) is a British writer who currently divides her time between Prague and Berlin. Her debut collection of short stories ''The Loudest Sound and Nothing'' was published by Faber and Faber in 2007 to cri ...
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*2009 – "The Not-Dead and the Saved", Kate Clanchy
*2010 – "Tea at the Midland", ]David Constantine
David John Constantine (born 1944) is an English poet, author and translator.
Background
Born in Salford, Constantine read Modern Languages at Wadham College, Oxford, and was a Fellow of The Queen's College, Oxford, until 2000, when he became a S ...
*2011 – "The Dead Roads", D. W. Wilson
*2012 – "East of the West", Miroslav Penkov
Miroslav Penkov is a Bulgarian writer who writes in English and Bulgarian. He was born in Gabrovo in Bulgaria in 1982, lived in Sofia for fourteen years and in 2001, at the age of 18, moved to the United States of America. He studied for a b ...
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*2013 – "Mrs Fox'', Sarah Hall
*2014 – "Kilifi Creek", ]Lionel Shriver
Lionel Shriver (born Margaret Ann Shriver; May 18, 1957) is an American author and journalist who lives in the United Kingdom. Her novel '' We Need to Talk About Kevin'' won the Orange Prize for Fiction in 2005.
Early life and education
Shriver ...
*2015 – "Briar Road", Jonathan Buckley
*2016 – "Disappearances", K. J. Orr
*2017 – "The Edge of the Shoal", Cynan Jones
Cynan Jones (born 1975) is a Welsh writer, who lives and works in Ceredigion. Jones published his first novel, ''The Long Dry'', in 2006. In 2010 he published '' Le Cose Che Non Vogliamo Più (Things We Don't Want Anymore)'' in Italian. He later ...
*2018 – "The Sweet Sop", Ingrid Persaud
*2019 – "The Invisible", Jo Lloyd
*2020 – "The Grotesques", Sarah Hall
*2021 – "All the People Were Mean and Bad", Lucy Caldwell
*2022 – "Blue 4eva", Saba Sams
Saba Sams is a British writer. Her debut collection of short stories ''Send Nudes'' appeared in 2022 and won the Edge Hill Prize
The Edge Hill Short Story Prize is a short-story contest held annually by Edge Hill University.
Background
The co ...
References
External links
BBC National Short Story Award
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British literary awards
Awards established in 2005
Short story awards
BBC awards
2005 establishments in the United Kingdom