Bestselling author and UEA Creative Writing lecturer Naomi Wood has won the eighteenth BBC National Short Story Award with Cambridge University (NSSA) with ‘Comorbidities’, a story examining the difficulty of maintaining love and intimacy in a marriage, from her forthcoming debut collection, This is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things (Orion, June 2024). Wood was […]
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Atlas Weyland Eden wins BBC YOUNG WRITERS’ AWARD 2023
Atlas Weyland Eden, an 18-year-old home-schooled writer and poet from Devon, has won the BBC Young Writers’ Award 2023 with Cambridge University (YWA) for ‘The Wordsmith’, a story of an otherworldly craftsman who hammers words into being. The news was announced live on BBC Radio 4 Front Row this evening (Tuesday 26 September) during a […]
Continue Reading2023 NSSA Shortlist Announced!
International Voices Celebrated as 18th BBC National Short Story Award Shortlist Presents New Perspectives on Migration, Climate Catastrophe and 21st Century Life The 2023 BBC National Short Story Award with Cambridge University (BBC NSSA) shortlist was announced this evening, Thursday 7 September 2023, on BBC Radio 4’s Front Row. The shortlist features writers from across […]
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