V. S. Pritchett Short Story Prize

This prize was founded by the RSL at the beginning of the new millennium to commemorate the centenary of an author widely regarded as the finest English short-story writer of the 20th century, and to preserve a tradition encompassing Pritchett’s mastery of narrative.

The annual prize of £1,000 goes to the best unpublished short story of the year. The winning entry is also published in Prospect magazine and the RSL Review.

We are grateful to the Authors’ Licensing and Collecting Society (ALCS) for their support of the Prize.

 

The 2022 Prize

We are now closed for entries. The winner will be announced on Thursday 30 March 2023.

This year’s judges are Jenn Ashworth, Cynan Jones and Emma Paterson.

 

 

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Past recipients (click the links to read the story on Prospect Magazine)

2021	Leeor Ohayon	‘Gahnun on Shabbat‘
2020	Kate Lockwood Jefford	‘Picasso’s Face‘
2019	Ursula Brunetti	‘Beetleboy‘
2018	Emily Ruth Ford	‘Please Be Good to Me‘
2017	Emily Ruth Ford	‘The Hikers‘
2016	Fiona Marshall	‘The Street of Baths‘
2015	Jonathan Tel	‘The Seduction of a Provincial  Accountant‘
2014	Alice Jolly	‘Ray the Rottweiler‘
2013	Peter Adamson	‘Sahel‘
2012	Martina Devlin	‘Singing Dumb‘
2011	Carys Davies	‘The Redemption of Galen Pike‘
2010	Michael Newton	‘The Premises‘
2009	Kate Clanchy	‘The Not-Dead and the Saved‘
2008	Cynthia Rogerson	‘A Dangerous Place’
2007	Gabriela Blandy	‘The Buck’
2006	Henry Peplow	‘Master Sunny’
2005	Jonathan Haylett	‘Bendera Beach’
2004	Ed Siegle	‘Nine Lives, One Life’
2003	Cherise Saywell	‘Beef Queen’
2001	Simon Korner	‘Falling’
2000	Emma Barklamb	‘No and Yes’
1999	John Arden	‘The Stealing Steps’