The short story

Welcome to Story, the campaign to celebrate the short story. We believe that the short story is one of the most exciting and important literary forms, that can and should reach the widest possible readership. We believe that the short story matters.

News and information

What can you find on this site? Simply everything you could ever want to know about the short story:

reading them
writing them
events
competitions
workshops and projects

You can search for short story collections currently published in the UK and read tips and articles from writers, agents and publishers on what makes a great short story and the great classic and contemporary stories they love.

BBC National Short Story Award anthologyBBC National Short Story Award

Kate Clanchy won the 2009 BBC National Short Story Award

Find out about the 2009 winner of the BBC National Short Story Award

Find out about the authors' reactions to being shortlisted for the 2009 Award

Clare Wigfall won the 2008 BBC National Short Story Award.

Find out more about the 2008 BBC National Short Story Award

Find out about Story Readers' Days

Find out about the history of the prize and previous winners

Find out more about the BBC and its work with the short story

 

The short story form is better suited to the demands of modern life than the novel.
Simon Prosser Publishing Director Hamish Hamilton

Story now

> Feature

We Are the Friction
Illustration vs. Short Fiction

> Interview and review

Legend of a Suicide
by David Vann

> Review

The Maples Stories
by John Updike

> Review

Too Much Happiness
by Alice Munro

> London's Royal Parks

Eight new stories
... all set in London's parks