The BBC National Shorty Story Award 2026
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The stories shortlisted for the 2026 BBC National Short Story Award are packed with small, intricate moments that unexpectedly reveal whole lifetimes of searching and struggle. A woman finds an injured slow worm in her lawn and watches as its mate returns to comfort it. A coastal rower climbs out of her boat, endangering herself and her crew, just to hear the sound of a minke whale singing beneath them. For all their attempts to define themselves as solitary and self-reliant, modern and cynical, each of these characters gets caught off guard by a sudden chance to reconnect, a chance to start again from scratch.
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