Carys Davies discusses Take It by Namwali Serpell
- 2nd July 2020
- 2020 award
Our judge on why they loved this year's shortlisted story
Andrew Holgate discusses Simon by Daniel O'Malley
- 2nd July 2020
- 2020 award
Our judge on why they loved this year's shortlisted story
Romesh Gunesekera discusses Teamwork by Shawn Vestal
- 2nd July 2020
- 2020 award
Our judge on why they loved this year's shortlisted story
Behind the Sentences with… Louise Kennedy
- 30th June 2020
- 2020 award
"If I could develop a superpower it would be to get my inner critic to feck off between the hours of 8am and 2pm"
Behind the Sentences with... Niamh Campbell
- 29th June 2020
- 2020 award
"As for bad habits, I have known for a long time that my usage of semicolons is out of control; I just don’t know how to stop"
Behind the Sentences with... Daniel J O’Malley
- 28th June 2020
- 2020 award
"I’m always working on several things at once, so when a story gets finished, there’s always another one waiting. That’s the trick with getting stuck as well – just work on something else for a while"
Behind the Sentences with… Namwali Serpell
- 27th June 2020
- 2020 award
"I’m too nomadic, or “movious” as we say in Zambia, to limit myself to a particular desk in a specific nook with a certain slant of light"
Behind the Sentences with... with this year’s judge David Nicholls
- 26th June 2020
- 2020 award
Our judge David Nicholls on what makes him return to the page, his writing failures and words of encouragement
Behind the Sentences with… Shawn Vestal
- 25th June 2020
- 2020 award
"I work most often on the couch in my living room, feet up on the coffee table, laptop on my lap, coffee close at hand"
Behind the Sentences with... with this year’s judge Diana Evans
- 24th June 2020
- 2020 award
Our judge Diana Evans on what makes her return to the page, her writing failures and words of encouragement