Sunday Times Short Story Award | |
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Awarded for | Best short story published in the UK |
Sponsored by | Audible |
Country | England |
Hosted by | The Sunday Times |
Reward(s) | £30,000 |
Last awarded | Active |
The Sunday Times Short Story Award is a British literary award for a single short story open to any novelist or short story writer from around the world who is published in the UK or Ireland. The winner receives £30,000, and the five shortlisted writers each receive £1,000.[1] A longlist of 16 is also announced. The award was established in 2010 by The Sunday Times newspaper with backing by EFG Private Bank. In 2019, award sponsorship changed to Audible.[2] It has been called the richest prize in the world for a single short story.[3]
Another major single-short-story award in the UK is the BBC National Short Story Award, which was called the richest prize in the world for a single short story at £15,000 in 2008,[4] however, as of 2013, The Sunday Times award is twice as large.
Year | Author | Title | Result | Ref. |
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2010 | C. K. Stead | Last Season's Man | Winner | [5][6][7] |
Will Cohu | Nothing but Grass | Shortlist | ||
Joe Dunthorne | Critical Responses to My Last Relationship | Shortlist | ||
Adam Marek | Fewer Things | Shortlist | ||
David Vann | It's Not Yours | Shortlist | ||
2011 | Anthony Doerr | The Deep | Winner | [8][9] |
Will Cohu | East Coast – West Coast | Shortlist | ||
Roshi Fernando | The Fluorescent Jacket | Shortlist | ||
Yiyun Li | The Science of Flight | Shortlist | ||
Gerard Woodward | The Family Whistle | Shortlist | ||
2012 | Kevin Barry | Beer Trip to Llandudno | Winner | [10][11] |
Emma Donoghue | The Hunt | Shortlist | ||
Linda Oatman High | Nickel Mines Hardware | Shortlist | ||
Jean Kwok | Where the Gods Fly | Shortlist | ||
Tom Lee | The Current | Shortlist | ||
Robert Minhinnick | El Aziz: Some Pages from His Notebook | Shortlist | ||
2013 | Junot Díaz | Miss Lora | Winner | [12][13] |
Mark Haddon | The Gun | Shortlist | [14] | |
Sarah Hall | Evie | Shortlist | [14] | |
Cynan Jones | The Dig | Shortlist | [14] | |
Toby Litt | Call It 'The Bug' Because I Have No Time to Think of a Better Title | Shortlist | [14] | |
Ali Smith | The Beholder | Shortlist | [14] | |
2014 | Adam Johnson | Nirvana | Winner | [15][16] |
Tahmima Anam | Anwar Gets Everything | Shortlist | [16][17] | |
Marjorie Celona | Othello | Shortlist | [16][17] | |
Anna Metcalfe | Number Three | Shortlist | [16][17] | |
Elizabeth Strout | Snow Blind | Shortlist | [16][17] | |
Jonathan Tel | The Shoe King of Shanghai | Shortlist | [16][17] | |
2015 | Yiyun Li | A Sheltered Woman | Winner | [18][19] |
Rebecca John | The Glove Maker's Numbers | Shortlist | [20] | |
Elizabeth McCracken | Hungry | Shortlist | [20] | |
Paula Morris | False River | Shortlist | [20] | |
Scott O'Connor | Interstellar Space | Shortlist | [20] | |
Madeleine Thien | The Wedding Cake | Shortlist | [20] | |
2016 | Jonathan Tel | The Human Phonograph | Winner | [21][22] |
Alix Christie | The Dacha | Shortlist | [23][24] | |
Petina Gappah | The News of Her Death | Shortlist | [23] | |
Colum McCann | What Time Is It Now, Where You Are? | Shortlist | [23] | |
Edith Pearlman | Unbechert | Shortlist | [23] | |
Nicholas Ruddock | The Phosphorescence | Shortlist | [23][24] | |
2017 | Bret Anthony Johnston | Half of What Atlee Rouse Knows About Horses | Winner | [25][26][27] |
Kathleen Alcott | Reputation Management | Shortlist | [28] | |
Richard Lambert | The Hazel Twig and the Olive Tree | Shortlist | [28] | |
Victor Lodato | The Tenant | Shortlist | [28] | |
Celeste Ng | Every Little Thing | Shortlist | [28] | |
Sally Rooney | Mr Salary | Shortlist | [28] | |
2018 | Courtney Zoffness | Peanuts Aren't Nuts | Winner | |
Allegra Goodman | F.A.Q.s | Shortlist | [29][30] | |
Miranda July | The Metal Bowl | Shortlist | [29] | |
Victor Lodato | Herman Melville, Volume 1 | Shortlist | [29] | |
Molly McCloskey | Life on Earth | Shortlist | [29] | |
Curtis Sittenfeld | Do-Over | Shortlist | [29] | |
2019 | Danielle McLaughlin | A Partial List of the Saved | Winner | [31] |
Kevin Barry | The Coast of Leitrim | Shortlist | ||
Emma Cline | What Can You Do With a General | Shortlist | ||
Joe Dunthorne | All The Poems Contained Within Will Mean Everything to Everyone | Shortlist | ||
Louise Kennedy | In silhouette | Shortlist | ||
Paul Dalla Rosa | Comme | Shortlist | [32] | |
2020 | Niamh Campbell | Love Many | Winner | |
Louise Kennedy | Sparing the Heather | Shortlist | ||
Daniel O'Malley | Simon | Shortlist | ||
Namwali Serpell | Take It | Shortlist | ||
Alexia Tolas | Granma's Porch | Shortlist | ||
2021 | Susan Choi | Flashlight | Winner | [33][34][35] |
Rabih Alameddine | The July War | Shortlist | [34][36] | |
Laura Demers | Sleeping Beauty | Shortlist | [34][36] | |
Rachael Fulton | Call | Shortlist | [34][36] | |
Jonathan Gibbs | A Prolonged Kiss | Shortlist | [34][36] | |
Elizabeth McCracken | The Irish Wedding | Shortlist |