National short story prize
Bestselling author Naomi Wood wins 2023 BBC national short story award
The UEA creative writing lecturer won for Comorbidities, which judging chair Reeta Chakrabarti called a ‘sparkling gem’ that tackles serious issues with a ‘light and wry touch’
Saba Sams wins BBC national short story award for ‘transportive’ tale
The 26-year-old, who drafted the story about ‘complex family dynamics’ when she was 19, takes a £15,000 prize for the piece taken from her debut collection Send Nudes
Lucy Caldwell wins BBC national short story award for ‘masterful’ tale
Having been shortlisted twice before, this year the Northern Irish writer takes the £15,000 prize for All the People Were Mean and Bad
Jo Lloyd wins BBC national short story award for 'timeless' tale
Welsh writer takes £15,000 prize for The Invisible, based on a real 18th-century woman who spread tales in her village
Ingrid Persaud wins BBC national short story award for debut tale
Seeing off an all-female shortlist, the Trinidadian writer’s story The Sweet Sop - about an estranged father and son united by chocolate – scooped the £15,000 prize
BBC short story prize selects all-female shortlist for fifth time
No space for male authors in race for £15,000 award, whose entries are judged blind
Read The Edge of the Shoal by Cynan Jones, winner of the BBC National short story award
BBC national short story award goes to Cynan Jones
BBC national short story award shortlist offers a 'festival of ideas'
Top 10s
Top 10 contemporary short stories
Joanna Trollope says BBC's overpaid managers are starving the arts
Announcing that she will chair the corporation’s short story award, novelist says ‘a great weight of money’ has gone to the wrong people
Books blog
BBC National Short Story winner – a plea to publishers to take risksKJ Orr, the winner of the 2016 Short Story award, explains why writers need freedoms in order for the form to thrive
BBC national short story award goes to KJ Orr
Author whose first collection was published this year sees off competition including Booker winner Hilary Mantel
Disappearances by KJ Orr – read the 2016 winner of the BBC national short story award
A retired plastic surgeon finds himself drawn to a waitress in a Buenos Aires cafe in this year’s winning story
Debut authors make BBC national short story award shortlist
KJ Orr and Claire-Louise Bennett compete with Hilary Mantel, Lavinia Greenlaw and Tahmima Aman for £15,000 prize
The long tale of the British short story
What makes the British short story special? In a trawl through thousands, Philip Hensher found a generous tradition that not only suits established writers but gives a platform to voices on the edge of society
Short story: Briar Road by Jonathan Buckley
Jonathan Buckley beats Hilary Mantel and Mark Haddon to BBC short story award
Zadie Smith and Lionel Shriver head National short story award shortlist
Smith joins Shriver, Rose Tremain and Tessa Hadley on all-female list with tale of a search for a corset in New York
All-woman shortlist for BBC short story award 2013
Liz Bury: Chair of judges Mariella Frostrup says prize's second all-female shortlist shows it's 'suited to women's innovative brilliance'
About 33 results for National short story prize 
