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Story is the campaign to celebrate the short story. We believe that the short story is one of the most exciting and important literary forms, that can and should reach the widest possible readership. We believe that the short story matters.
New short story event with Anne Donovan at Scottish Book Trust on 26th July. Find out more here.
Story's website, www.theshortstory.org.uk compiles information for short story readers, writers, publishers and agents, with reviews of new collections, a comprehensive listing of prizes, plus interviews, features and an archive of freely downloadable stories.
The BBC National Short Story Award
Story also runs the world's largest prize for a short story - the BBC National Short Story Award, which awards £15,000 to the author of the winning story; £3,000 to the runner-up, and £500 each to three further short-listed stories. The first winner, announced in 2006, was James Lasdun for his story An Anxious Man. In 2007, Julian Gough won the prize for his story The Orphan and the Mob.
BBC National Short Story Award 2008 shortlist announced - The Award is only open to published authors, and over seven hundred entries came in to the BBC back in January. Several teams of sifters from Scottish Book Trust and Booktrust in London created a longlist of c.50 stories, which then went to the panel of judges. This year’s judging panel is chaired by Martha Kearney, who is joined by writers Penelope Lively and Naomi Alderman, along with Di Speirs (BBC Radio 4 Executive Producer of readings) and Alexander Linklater (Associate Editor of Prospect magazine). This year’s shortlist of five authors was announced on the Today programme on BBC Radio 4 on Friday 4 July. They are: Richard Beard, Jane Gardam, Erin Soros, Adam Thorpe and Clare Wigfall. For more information on the authors and their stories, please see www.theshortstory.org.uk. The five shortlisted authors will be interviewed on Today, one per day from Monday 7 July, and that author’s story will be broadcast in the afternoon story slot at 3.30 on Radio 4 on the day they’re interviewed, and then the winner is announced on Today on Monday 14 July. An anthology of the five shortlisted stories has been published by Short Books.
Story is jointly run by Scottish Book Trust, Booktrust in London and the BBC, with funding from the Scottish Arts Council and Arts Council England.
