We’re delighted to announce this year’s longlist of 20 stories for The Leicester Writes Short Story Prize. The longlist was chosen from just under 300 entries received.
Stories on this year’s longlist include (in alphabetical order):
All Eyes On Me by Melanie Carvalho
An Unrecoverable Youth by D.N. Martin
Back Streets by Gillian Brown
Ephemeral Little Things by Caroline Butterwick
Gigi and Me by Catherine Ogston
Hiraeth by Laura Besley
Just the two of us by Helen Cooper
Magic Numbers by Tim Love
Molly by Robyn Jefferson
Pepper Soup by Chiamaka Okike
Postcards from the Boathouse by Rosaleen Lynch
The Little Shop of Proverbs by Chris Cottom
The Maw by Liz Allan
The Nook by Ismail Karolia
The Observational Bias of Love by Rosaleen Lynch
The Universe Inside My Skin by Ash Egan
The Walking Man by Judith Cooper
Time Travel by Cecilia Kang
Ugly Boys Score the Goals by Edward Barnfield
You Choose by Sara Sheldrake
All the stories featured on our longlist will be published in our prize anthology. A shortlist and winners will now be selected by our fantastic judging panel, including writers Abi Hynes, Iqbal Hussain, and last year’s winner, Laura Coleman.
We aim to make our prize announcement on Sunday 1 September.
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