β Scribed by Kathleen Alcott
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
This year's six shortlisted stories for the world's richest short story prize, the Β£30,000 Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award. The Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award is the world's most prestigious and richest short story prize, worth Β£30,000 to the winner. Past winners and shortlisted authors have included the Pulitzer winners Junot DΓaz, Anthony Doerr and Adam Johnson, plus Hilary Mantel, Ali Smith, Yiyun Li, CK Stead and Elizabeth Strout. Six Shorts 2017 brings together the six stories shortlisted for this year's award: 'Reputation Management' by Kathleen Alcott; 'Half of What Atlee Rouse Knows about Horses' by Bret Anthony Johnston; 'The Hazel Twig and the Olive Tree' by Richard Lambert; 'The Tenant' by Victor Lodato; 'Every Little Thing' by Celeste Ng; and 'Mr Salary' by Sally Rooney. Chosen by a hugely experienced and prestigious judging panel that included Booker-winner Anne Enright, Orange- and Whitbread-winner Rose Tremain, Booker-shortlistee Neel Mukherjee and critic and...
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