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
Behind the Sentences with… Alexia Tolas
- 23rd June 2020
- 2020 award
“It’s the interaction with words and other realities that rejuvenate the mind”
Behind the Sentences: with this year’s judge Romesh Gunesekera
- 22nd June 2020
- 2020 award
Our judge Romesh Gunesekera on what makes him return to the page, his writing failures and words of encouragement
SIX AUTHORS IN THE RUNNING FOR THE 2020 SUNDAY TIMES AUDIBLE SHORT STORY AWARD
- 7th June 2020
- 2020 award
983 writers from 48 countries distilled to 6 in a shortlist that ‘bears powerful witness to the thrilling possibilities of the short story form’
CARYS DAVIES: BEHIND THE SCENES JUDGING THE 2020 SUNDAY TIMES AUDIBLE SHORT STORY AWARD
- 5th June 2020
- 2020 award
Carys Davies on how she and her fellow judges – Diana Evans, Romesh Gunesekera, David Nicholls and Andrew Holgate – chose the stories on this year's longlist