Society of Authors awards shortlists 2020

Announcing the Society of Authors' Awards shortlists – 29 writers and illustrators shortlisted for £100,000 prize fund, including our inaugural children's illustrated book prize! > https://t.co/xeh4Es3iVt #SoAwards

With thanks to @ALCS_UK ✨ pic.twitter.com/s1PvbSwo6o

— Society of Authors (@Soc_of_Authors) May 14, 2020

Direct link: https://societyofauthors.org/News/News/2020/May/SoA-Awards-2020-shortlist

It is gratifying to see two former Willesden Herald New Short Stories contributors, namely Carol Farrelly and Diana Powell, short-listed for this year’s ALCS Tom Gallon award for a short story.

New Yorker Fiction: A rare prose poem

This week's story, “The Media” by Ben Lerner, is now online. https://t.co/zRavOuoxAg via @NewYorker

— New Yorker Fiction (@NYerFiction) April 13, 2020

In a change from the usual New Yorker long short story genre, the 20 April 2020 issue features a self-described prose poem by Ben Lerner. It’s a marvellous jumble of words and thoughts in search of something.

"Language always involves time travel: when you leave a message through any medium, you are no longer identical to the person who left it": Ben Lerner on his story in this week's issue. https://t.co/VycFgJ51C3 via @NewYorker

— New Yorker Fiction (@NYerFiction) April 15, 2020

Want to know more after reading “The Media”? Here you go…

The last of “New Irish Writing”?

Happy to have a new short story ‘The Night Shift’ published in New Irish Writing in the @IrishTimes today. Definitely bittersweet with the announcement of New Irish Writing being put on hold as they look for a new sponsor. Hope to see it back soon. https://t.co/Dmgrx9ZOBG

— Robert Higgins (@roberthiggins89) April 30, 2020

Today is a sad day as Ciaran Carty and Dermot Bolger here announce that New Irish Writing is out on hold as the loss of its sponsor is compounded by the financial impact of the pandemic. We hope a sponsor may yet be found to save it https://t.co/IqwaSpPopi

— Martin Doyle (@MartinDoyleIT) April 30, 2020

Terrible news but surely a new sponsor will come forward? Guinness? RTÉ? Gov.ie?

Liars’ League: Keep Calm & Read On (500 Stories / Videos)

Stuck home? Burned thru Netflix? Bored enough to try a #shortstory? WE GOT YOU. Here's 500+ FREE #shortstories & MP3s from Liars' League's archive: https://t.co/Bqu6XnlAfD
Prefer videos? Hundreds here: https://t.co/6I7GFbYUoy
Podcast purist? Say no more: https://t.co/VdEqy8PoLD pic.twitter.com/2TNF5TMubi

— Liars' League (@liarsleague) March 17, 2020

The mighty archive of short stories discovered by Liars’ League, as presented by actors at their lively literary evenings. LiarsLeague.com

New Yorker: Night Swim by Anne Enright

This week's story, “Night Swim” by Anne Enright, is now online. https://t.co/U5KY6xx8Qe via @NewYorker

— New Yorker Fiction (@NYerFiction) March 2, 2020

Skinny dipping at midnight in a forest lake versus mid-life domesticity, and in between…

Prospect: Read Beetleboy by Ursula Brunetti

Read Beetleboy, winner of the 2019 VS Pritchett Short Story Prize, by @UrsulaBrunetti https://t.co/2xWzooXvNW

— Prospect Magazine (@prospect_uk) February 13, 2020

“Each year, Prospect partners with the Royal Society of Literature to award a fiction writer working in short stories. This year’s winner Ursula Brunetti weaves a tale about an unlikely friendship” ()

Prospect Magazine

Before Beetleboy came Satellites by Ursula Brunetti in New Short Stories 11

V.S. Pritchett Short Story Prize 2019 goes to Ursula Brunetti for “Beetleboy”

Congratulations to @UrsulaBrunetti who has won the £1,000 20th anniversary V. S. Pritchett Short Story Prize with ‘Beetleboy’.

The 2019 judges are @CandiceC_W, @PhilipHensher and @leoneross. pic.twitter.com/OS1g9QSvBO

— Royal Society of Literature (@RSLiterature) November 11, 2019

The Royal Society of Literature’s prestigious V.S. Pritchett Short Story Prize for 2019 has gone to Ursula Brunetti for her story “Beetleboy”. By a happy coincidence, our soon-to-be-published New Short Stories 11 also contains a story by Ursula. 2019 is something of a golden year for writers in New Short Stories, when it comes to winning major prizes. (Ed.)