Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award 2013 longlist

The longlist for the 2013 Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award was announced on Friday. In the running this year for the world's richest prize for a short story collection, is a globe-spanning field of seventy five authors. With thirty … [Read more...]

2011 BBC National Short Story Award shortlist unveiled

The shortlist for the 2011 BBC National Short Story Award was announced earlier this evening, on Radio 4’s Front Row programme. Standing as one of the most prestigious prizes awarded for a single short story published by a UK author, this year's … [Read more...]

Tony Parsons becomes Heathrow Airport’s latest writer-in-residence

Novelist Tony Parsons has been commissioned to write a collection of short stories based on the people who work and travel at Heathrow Airport. Due to be published in October by Harper Collins, the collection, called Departures: Seven Stories from … [Read more...]