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Another tale of literary excellence has been written as local author Joanne C Hillhouse’s short story “Jumbie Pond” has been shortlisted for the 2025 Commonwealth Short Story Prize ...

The beach kids appear at the screen door like ghosts, and I hide behind my mother’s skirt. Good mornin’, ma’am, they say in soft voices. A brother and a sister, I assume. Same bright eyes ...

My father sits beside me at the dinner table, unable to meet my eyes. His only daughter and he can’t even look at me.

The prize is awarded annually for the best piece of unpublished short fiction from any of the ... The shortlisted stories range from historical fiction to satire and crime and speculative writing ...

The Commonwealth Short Story Prize shortlist, revealed today, features 25 "relevant, vibrant and essential" unpublished stories selected from a record-breaking 7,920 entries. The stories ...

Ross Raisin's Ghost Kitchen is the fifth story up for this year's BBC National Short Story Award. Here we are taken into the gig economy's dark underbelly. Ashley Margolis reads. Show more Ashley ...