In its sixth year, the BBC National Short Story Award is one of the most prestigious for a single short story. Listeners can hear the shortlisted stories, and interviews with the authors, on BBC Radio 4. At 30 mins long, these readings of short stories will be a great focus assets for reading groups and libraries to collect and play.
Shortlist is announced on 9 September then from the 12 to 16 September the five shortlisted stories will be broadcast daily on BBC Radio 4, with downloads
The winner will be announced on 26 September.
* Readers will be able to listen to the stories for 14 days after broadcast.
* There will be blog posts about the stories and interviews with the authors on Front Row
* Readers will be able to download each of the five stories.
Read more on the BBC National Short Story Award website.
Last year’s winner was David Constantine (pictured) for Tea at the Midland.
