Promoting & celebrating the excellence of the modern short story

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 winner of the 2021 award was announced on July 8, 2021. Huge congratulations to Susan Choi for her outstanding story, Flashlight, and to all of this year's shortlisted and longlisted writers.

The 2022 prize will launch slightly later than usual, in January 2022. We will be announcing dates - and details of our new sponsor - in the coming weeks on our News page and via @shortstoryaward on Twitter. In the meantime, to find out more about the prize, please click on About.