
Gráinne Murphy’s favourite short story
26th August 2021
Gráinne Murphy on the short story she loves and thinks you will, too – The Starlight on Idaho, by Denis Johnson
The Sunday Times Short Story Award is the richest prize for a single short story in the English language, worth £30,000 to the winner. The award is open to any novelist or short story writer from around the world who is published in the UK.
The American writer, Courtney Zoffness, won the 2018 Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award for her story Peanuts Aren't Nuts.
American writers have swept the board in the six-strong shortlist for the 2018 Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award, which includes five women and one male author. Three of the six shortlisted stories have been previously published in The New Yorker.
The winner was announced at a gala dinner at Stationers’ Hall in London on Thursday, April 26, 2018.
26th August 2021
Gráinne Murphy on the short story she loves and thinks you will, too – The Starlight on Idaho, by Denis Johnson
12th August 2021
Susannah Dickey on the short story she loves and thinks you will, too – The Universal Story, by Ali Smith
5th August 2021
Mark Jude Poirier on the short story he loves and thinks you will, too – The Legend of Pig-Eye, by Rick Bass
Bret Anthony Johnston has won the 2017 Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award with his story ‘Half of What Atlee Rouse Knows About Horses’.