Sunday Times Short Story Award

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Sunday Times Short Story Award
Awarded forBest short story published in the UK
Sponsored by EFG Private Bank
Audible
CountryEngland
Hosted by The Sunday Times
Reward(s)£30,000
First awarded2010
Last awarded2021

The Sunday Times Short Story Award also known as the Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award and later the Sunday Times Audible Short Story Award, was a British literary award for a single short story open to any novelist or short story writer from around the world who was published in the UK or Ireland. The winner received £30,000, and the five shortlisted writers each received £1,000. [1] A longlist of 16 was 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] which withdrew its sponsorship after the 2021 award. [3] It has been called the richest prize in the world for a single short story. [4]

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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, [5] however, as of 2013, The Sunday Times award was twice as large.

The Bookseller reported in July 2022 that the prize was "in danger of being discontinued" as Audible had withdrawn their sponsorship the previous year. At that time Andrew Holgate, literary editor of the Sunday Times, said that the prize had had to be delayed for a year as no replacement sponsor had been found. [3]

Winners and shortlisted nominees

Sunday Times Short Story Award winners and shortlists
YearAuthorTitleResultRef.
2010 C. K. Stead "Last Season's Man"Winner [6] [7] [8]
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 [9] [10]
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 [11] [12]
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 [13] [14]
Mark Haddon "The Gun"Shortlist [15]
Sarah Hall "Evie"Shortlist [15]
Cynan Jones "The Dig"Shortlist [15]
Toby Litt "Call It 'The Bug' Because I Have No Time to Think of a Better Title"Shortlist [15]
Ali Smith "The Beholder"Shortlist [15]
2014 Adam Johnson "Nirvana"Winner [16] [17]
Tahmima Anam "Anwar Gets Everything"Shortlist [18] [19]
Marjorie Celona "Othello"Shortlist [18] [19]
Anna Metcalfe "Number Three"Shortlist [18] [19]
Elizabeth Strout "Snow Blind"Shortlist [18] [19]
Jonathan Tel "The Shoe King of Shanghai"Shortlist [18] [19]
2015 Yiyun Li "A Sheltered Woman"Winner [20] [21]
Rebecca John "The Glove Maker's Numbers"Shortlist [22]
Elizabeth McCracken "Hungry"Shortlist [22]
Paula Morris "False River"Shortlist [22]
Scott O'Connor "Interstellar Space"Shortlist [22]
Madeleine Thien "The Wedding Cake"Shortlist [22]
2016 Jonathan Tel "The Human Phonograph"Winner [23] [24]
Alix Christie "The Dacha"Shortlist [25] [26]
Petina Gappah "The News of Her Death"Shortlist [25]
Colum McCann "What Time Is It Now, Where You Are?"Shortlist [25]
Edith Pearlman "Unbechert"Shortlist [25]
Nicholas Ruddock "The Phosphorescence"Shortlist [25] [26]
2017 Bret Anthony Johnston "Half of What Atlee Rouse Knows About Horses"Winner [27] [28] [29]
Kathleen Alcott "Reputation Management"Shortlist [30]
Richard Lambert "The Hazel Twig and the Olive Tree"Shortlist [30]
Victor Lodato "The Tenant"Shortlist [30]
Celeste Ng "Every Little Thing"Shortlist [30]
Sally Rooney "Mr Salary"Shortlist [30]
2018 Courtney Zoffness Peanuts Aren't NutsWinner
Allegra Goodman F.A.Q.sShortlist [31] [32]
Miranda July The Metal BowlShortlist [31]
Victor Lodato Herman Melville, Volume 1Shortlist [31]
Molly McCloskey Life on EarthShortlist [31]
Curtis Sittenfeld Do-OverShortlist [31]
2019 Danielle McLaughlin A Partial List of the SavedWinner [33]
Kevin Barry The Coast of LeitrimShortlist
Emma Cline What Can You Do with a GeneralShortlist
Joe Dunthorne All The Poems Contained Within Will Mean Everything to EveryoneShortlist
Louise Kennedy In SilhouetteShortlist
Paul Dalla Rosa CommeShortlist [34]
2020 Niamh Campbell Love ManyWinner
Louise Kennedy Sparing the HeatherShortlist
Daniel O'MalleySimonShortlist
Namwali Serpell Take ItShortlist
Alexia Tolas Granma's PorchShortlist
2021 Susan Choi FlashlightWinner [35] [36] [37]
Rabih Alameddine The July WarShortlist [36] [38]
Laura Demers Sleeping BeautyShortlist [36] [38]
Rachael Fulton CallShortlist [36] [38]
Jonathan GibbsA Prolonged KissShortlist [36] [38]
Elizabeth McCracken The Irish WeddingShortlist

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