Previous Winners

A collection of BBC National Short Story Award-winning stories.

The Dead Roads—BBC National Short Story Award 2011
By DW Wilson. Violence threatens to break out as three friends road-trip across Canada.
Release date:
16 Sep 2011
Tea at the Midland—BBC National Short Story Award 2010
By David Constantine. A couple's romantic outing turns fraught over a piece of artwork.
Release date:
15 Nov 2010
The Not-Dead and the Saved—BBC National Short Story Award 2009
By Kate Clanchy. A powerful and moving story about love and letting go.
Release date:
01 Dec 2009
The Numbers—BBC National Short Story Award 2008
By Claire Wigfall. A young woman on a remote island finds solace in the logic of numbers.
The Orphan and the Mob—BBC National Short Story Award 2007
By Julian Gough. The comic tale of an orphan desperately needing to go to the toilet.
Release date:
17 Apr 2007
An Anxious Man—BBC National Short Story Award 2006
By James Lasdun. The struggles of a man with financial worries.
Release date:
14 Apr 2006