2009 BSSP longlist announced
Written by joe melia Wednesday, 06 May 2009 17:06
Many thanks to all those who entered the 2009 Prize. The 40 stories listed below comprise this year’s longlist. Congratulations to the authors and best of luck to all of them for the rest of the 2009 Prize. The competition for the longlist was incredibly stiff and it’s a great acheivement to have made it this far.
The stories are listed in the order that they were received and by title only - this is to ensure that the judges do not know any of the authors’ names and are basing their decisions purely on the words in front of them. The authors who are selected for the shortlist will be notified at the end of May. The shortlist will be announced on the website at the beginning of June.
2009 Bristol Short Story Prize Longlist
Love Silk Food
The Casket Maker
The Sand Doll
Malka
Island Special
The Whiteladies Picture House
The Test
Dan
For Martha
Way To Go
The Piano
Strange But True
That Kind of Man
Beyond the Blackout Curtain
Flyaway Day
End-of-Life Liaison
Pictures In The Dust
Last Man Standing
God’s Coin
The Interminable Millisecond
With Thy Fire Divine
Old Fires
Herself’s Dead Cat
Hen Night
Those Paper Boats
Lee Ferrer’s Brother
Second Degree
The Little Match Girl
One in the Eye for Chance
Newsworthy
The Woman in the White-Feathered Hat
Dog meets Dog
Blue Monsters
Alone in Bloemfontein
The Final Whistle
Danny the Champion of Redland Library
Nobody Home
Upwards, and Upwards, and Upwards
Rule of Thumb
Broken Glass
We would also like to commend the stories listed below. They were in the reckoning for the longlist right up to the end.
Comrades In Arms
The Price of Hair
Inertia
Six Plus Six
Blood Ties
Suspended Sentence
Holy Ants
Visiting Rites
How to Live Happily Ever After
Trapped
Arthur and I
Fifty Dollars
The Casket
Even Elephants
Child’s-Eye View
Poodle Women
Black
In It To Win
The Wild Patch
Road Rage
Red Dog
Northern Species
Mind Games
Dreams in Electric Blue
That Kind of Friday
23 Men in a Container
The Man Who Stood Still
The Lark at Break of Day
My Baby
Scraps of Paper
Relative to Elsa
Fragments of an Old Letter
Solitary Confinement
Habits
Sonny
A Little Hope
She was Glitter and Shine
The Assassin
The Day The Shah Came to Germany
Mrs Joseph
Growing Pains
Bitter Lemons
The Body
Steamin’
Violet Knight
Everyone in the Whole, Entire World Laughed at the Same Time
Not Like Us
Hit and Myth
No Fools Gold
Resolution Rose - a Modern fairy Tale
Fatherly Feelings
Girl, Dancing
Slow Boat to Everywhere
The Other Woman
The One Who Got Away
Journeys End in Lovers Meeting
Marram Grass
Broader considerations and consequential events arising from a lecture on the mathematics of wave phenomena
Ellen and Dan on a Day
Triage
Epoch
The Collector
Fever 101
Marx, Lenin and Brian
Terminations
The Summer of Stepan Danilov’s Discomfort
Constancy
The Storm Lamp
Dear Future Self
Fly on the Ceiling
Before That
Groupie
Roses
Real Care Baby
Love Unconditional
Growing Pains
Because It Said So
Saving Face
Constant’s Noise
A Perfect Size Five
A Conversation With Death
