Welcome to the Bristol Short Story Prize

Welcome to the Bristol Short Story Prize - an exciting, international writing competition that publishes an annual anthology as well as presenting cash prizes.

We're delighted to announce that this year's Bristol Short Story Prize has been won by Valerie O'Riordan (left) for her stunning and incredibly powerful 350 word story 'Mum's the Word'. Read more here ... To find out Valerie's reaction to winning please click here. To read a great interview with Valerie please click here.

Valerie's triumph was announced at an awards ceremony hosted by the Arnolfini arts centre in Bristol. The prizes were presented by the Lord Mayor of Bristol and the writer Sarah Salway, pictured right with Valerie.

Our latest anthology, featuring the 20 stories on this year's shortlist has been published and is available to order with free woldwide postage and packing. It is also available from The Book Depository, Amazon, Waterstone's website, and some bookshops. If your local bookshop doesn't have it in stock then they will be able to order it in for you. You can also buy the Kindle format ebook from amazon.com.

The other writers featured in the anthology (left) are : Mike Bonsall, Kate Brown, Darci Bysouth, Joanna Campbell, Tara Conklin, Rik Gammack, Rachel Howard, Ashley Jacob, Claire King, Ian Madden, Nastasya Parker, Jonathan Pinnock, Marli Roode, Rachel Sargeant, Yana Stajno, Natasha Tripney, Sherri Turner, Ben Walker and Clare Wallace.

We are planning a short story festival next year which we hope will become an annual event. Please click here for details.

Please visit our links section for suggestions on where to explore in the dynamic world of the short story.