The shortlisted stories for this year’s BBC National Short Story Awards with Cambridge University will be announced on Front Row, Thursday 7th September. Each story will be broadcast across the ...

For the first time since it launched in 2006 – and for one year only – the BBC Short Story Award invited authors from across the globe to enter alongside UK practitioners. To reflect the ...

BBC iPlayer app is set to shut down permanently ... with all existing downloads getting a playback block and the app shutting ...

Subscribe to the Short Story podcast to hear all five shortlisted stories from 14th - 18th September, or listen on BBC Radio 4 from 15:30 every day. You can also hear interviews with the ...

Shriver has been shortlisted twice previously for the BBC National Short Story Award in 2009 and 2013. Kilifi Creek - a young gap year traveller’s brief encounter with mortality. Wry ...