The BBC National Short Story Award 2022
A woman, exhausted by work and motherhood, hires the services of a sinister firm that promises her a brand-new life... Journeying across America to make a claim to an inheritance, a man must confront the shame and bigotry that has haunted his family for generations... A picture-perfect holiday threatens to unravel as two daughters come to terms with the uneasy dynamic of their new blended family... The stories shortlisted for the 2022 BBC National Short Story Award with Cambridge University take readers on a journey through uncertain terrain: times and places at once familiar yet deeply unsettling. From the queer love story unravelling against a desolate and disease-ravaged landscape, to a man's earnest hunt for the killer of a boy who died in his arms, these stories are about outsiders, who seek safety and security in worlds that are chaotic, unfathomable, sometimes beautiful, and often brutal.
Book Details
- Publisher: Comma Press
- Publish Date: Mar 14th, 2023
- Pages: 208
- Language: English
- Dimensions: 0.00in - 0.00in - 0.00in - 0.00lb
- EAN: 9781912697649
- Categories: • Anthologies (multiple authors)
About the Author
Saba Sams is a fiction writer based in London. Her stories have appeared in The Stinging Fly and The Tangerine. She was shortlisted for The White Review Short Story Prize in 2019. Her debut collection of short stories SEND NUDES was published by Bloomsbury in 2022 and she won The BBC National Short Story Award in 2022. Vanessa Onwuemezi (born in 1988 in London) is a writer and poet based in London, UK. She completed an MA in Creative Writing at the University of Birkbeck, 2018. Her story At the Heart of Things won the The White Review Short Story Prize 2019. She was a Showcase writer featured by the Literary Consultancy, UK, 2018, and has received a commendation for her flash fiction, The Crossing, from Bare Fiction magazine, 2017. In 2021 Fitzcarraldo Editions published her debut collection, Dark Neighbourhood
Praise for this book
'I think in a time-pressed world, a short story is the perfect way to connect with great literature without having to commit to a full-length book. A short story collection can be dipped in and out of, without diminishing the power of the whole.' --Elizabeth Day, Chair of Judges, BBC National Short Story Award 2022