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 ReadingSubmissions Open for Short Story Awards 2020 as judges are announced for 15th Anniversary year
Award-winning journalist and author JONATHAN FREEDLAND and broadcaster KATIE THISTLETON to chair 2020 BBC Short Story Award panels that include ‘Everyday Sexism Project’ founder LAURA BATES; award-winning YA writer MUHAMMAD KHAN; previous BBC NSSA shortlisted writer LUCY […]
Continue ReadingCelebrated young poet, Georgie Woodhead wins 2019 BBC Young Writers’ Award with short story about a night out clubbing, friendship and guilt
Georgie Woodhead, 16, from Sheffield has won the 2019 BBC Young Writers’ Award with First Story and Cambridge University (YWA) for ‘Jelly-headed’, a tragi-comic story about an ill-fated night out that ends in devastating circumstances on a nightclub roof. A gripping story about friendship, moral dilemma, and the absurdity of life, it was praised by […]
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