Clare Wigfall Wins the BBC National Short Story Award
If America is the land of the short story, then why is the largest prize for the short story awarded on the other side of the pond?
The BBC National Short Story Award is an annual award that celebrates the best contemporary British short story. The author gets 15,000 pounds, which is about $30,000. For one story! This year there were 600 submissions. I’m actually a bit shocked that the number isn’t higher. One Story gets about that many submissions in two months and we’re not giving away nowhere near that kind of money.
Clare Wigfall’s story, The Numbers, is the story of a woman with a preoccupation with the number 8 and was inspired by the American anthropologist Margret Fay Shaw, who visited the Outer Hebrides in the 1920s and stayed until her death at the age of 101.
You can listen to an excerpt online here.
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