BBC National Short Story Award 2010
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BBC National Short Story Award 2010
Fifth year of this award for a single short story
First prize £15,000
Second prize £3,000
Three further shortlisted authors receive £500 each.
Open to all writers over 16 for unpublished work
Closing date 18th June 2010
This year’s award is open for submissions from publishers, agents and published authors from the UK.
The shortlist will be announced in November with the five stories broadcast on BBC Radio 4 each weekday a week before the winner is announced. The five stories will also be published in a special anthology.
Aimed at highlighting the importance of the short story and supporting the genre, the BBC National Short Story Award stands at the heart of a UK-wide campaign — Story— that has run alongside the award since 2005. The ambition of both the award and the campaign is to expand opportunities for British writers, readers and publishers of the short story. The award aims to honour the country’s finest exponents of the form. James Lasdun secured the inaugural award for An Anxious Man;& last year the poet Kate Clanchy won with The Not-Dead and The Saved. Other authors shortlisted in previous years have included Jackie Kay, William Trevor, Rose Tremain, Clare Wigfall, Naomi Alderman and Lionel Shriver.
BBC Radio 4 is the world’s leading broadcaster of short stories and a staunch and long-time supporter of the form. Short stories are broadcast every week attracting more than a million listeners. The BBC hopes that the award can continue to serve as a reminder of the power of the short story in a literary environment dominated by the novel.
For prize information, please contact the prizes team on 020 8516 2973 or prizes@booktrust.org.uk or go to their site.
