Welcome to the Bristol Short Story Prize – an annual international writing competition open to all published and unpublished, UK and non-UK based writers.

The winner of the 2020 Bristol Short Story Prize will be announced on October 10th. Congratulations to the 20 shortlisted writers who are in the running for this year’s top prize. The two runners up plus the winner of the Sansom Award for Bristol-based writers will also be announced. And our volume 13 anthology featuring this year’s 20 shortlisted stories will be launched.

The 2019 Bristol Short Story Prize was won by Australian writer Cameron Stewart (above) for his story, Black Snow. 2nd prize went to Cherise Saywell and 3rd prize was awarded to S. Bhattacharya-Woodward. The inaugural Sansom Award for Bristol writers was won by Ali Bacon.

Left to right: Judge Billy Kahora, 3rd prize winner, Saoni Bhattacharya-Woodward, 2nd prize winner Cherise Saywell at the 2019 awards ceremony. Credit: Barbara Evripidou

Cameron’s winning story and the other 19 on the shortlist are available now in our brilliant new anthology which can be ordered from our publisher, Tangent Books. It is also available to order from bookshops and the usual online outlets.

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