The Sunday Times Audible Short Story Award is the richest prize for a single short story in the English language, worth £30,000 to the winner. The award, for a story of 6,000 words or less, is open to any novelist or short story writer from around the world who has been published in the UK or Ireland.
The submission period for the 2019 award closed at 6pm on February 15, 2019. The longlist will be announced in June 2019, the shortlist in July 2019, and the winner will be announced on September 12, 2019.
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The Irish writer, Danielle McLaughlin, won the 2019 Sunday Times Audible Short Story Award for her story 'A Partial List of the Saved'
15th October 2019
The award-winning translator Lina Protopapa talks about the joys and challenges of translating short fiction: ‘One of the tasks that the translator is called upon to carry out is to continuously hold count of what is lost in a translation'
27th September 2019
Twenty lucky winners will receive a year's subscription to Audible UK
23rd September 2019
2019 has been a stand-out year for the Award. Here the shortlist discuss their stories, writing process and much more
The American writer, Courtney Zoffness, won the 2018 Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award for her story Peanuts Aren't Nuts.
