The Edge Hill Short Story Prize

Winner

Bernie McGill for This Train is for… (No Alibis Books)

Shortlist

• Total by Rebecca Miller (Canongate)
• Love in the Time of Chaos by Rosemary Jenkinson (Arlen House)
• Cat Brushing & Other Stories by Jane Campbell (Riverrun)
• Animals at Night by Naomi Booth (Dead Ink Books)

Naomi Booth won the Readers’ Prize

Winner

Saba Sams for Send Nudes (Bloomsbury)

Shortlist

• Wendy Erskine for Dance Move (Picador/Stinging Fly)
• Iphgenia Baal for Man Hating Psycho (Influx Press)
• Lucy Caldwell for Intimacies (Faber)
• Vanessa Onwuemezi for Dark Neighbourhood (Fitzcarraldo Editions)

Wendy Erskine won the Readers’ Prize

Winner

Kevin Barry, That Old Country Music (Canongate)

Shortlist

• Alice Ash Paradise Block (Serpent’s Tail/Profile)
• Rosemary Jenkinson Lifestyle Choice 10mg  (Doire Press)
• Jo Lloyd  The Earth, Thy Great Exchequer, Ready Lies  (Swift Press)
• Alexandros Plasatis Made by Sea and Wood, in Darkness  (Spuyten Duyvil)
• Hannah Vincent She-Clown and other stories (Myriad Editions.

The Readers prize was awarded to Alice Ash for Paradise Block.

Winner

Shelley Day What Are You Like (Postbox Press)

Shortlist

• Lucy Sweeney Byrne Paris Syndrome (Banshee Press)

• Ruby Cowling This Paradise (Boiler House Press)

• Sarah Hall Sudden Traveller (Faber)

• Linda Mannheim This Way to Departures (Influx Press)

The Readers prize was awarded to Ruby Cowling for Flamingo Land.

Winner

David Szalay, Turbulence (Cape)

Shortlist

• Wendy Erskine, Sweet Home (Stinging Fly)
• Vicky Grut,  Live Show, Drink Included (Holland Park Press)
• Chris Power, Mothers (Faber)
• Simon van Booy,  The Sadness of Beautiful Things (Penguin, USA)
• Lucy Wood, The Sing of the Shore (4^th Estate)

David also won the Readers’ Prize.

Winner

Tessa Hadley, Bad Dreams (Cape)

Shortlist

• Sarah Hall, Madame Zero (Faber)
• Alison MacLeod, All the Beloved Ghosts (Bloomsbury)
• Tom Rachman, Basket of Deplorables (Riverrun Books)
• Leone Ross, Come Let Us Sing Anyway (Peepal Tree Press)

Sarah Hall won the Readers’ Prize.

Winner

Daisy Johnson, Fen (Cape)

Shortlist

• Lucy Caldwell, Multitudes (Faber)
• Irenosen Okjie, Speak Gigantular (Jacaranda)
• K.J. Orr, Light Box (Daunt)
• Joanna Walsh, Vertigo (And Other Stories)

Daisy also won the Readers’ Prize.

Winner

Jessie Greengrass, An Account of the Decline Of The Great Auk, According To One Who Saw It (John Murray Press)

Shortlist

• Kate Clanchy, The Not-Dead and the Saved (Picador)
• Stuart Evers, Your Father Sends his Love (Picador)
• China Mieville, Three Moments of an Explosion (Macmillan)
• Thomas Morris, We Don’t Know What We’re Doing (Faber & Faber)
• Angela Readman, Don’t Try This at Home (And Other Stories)

China Mieville won the Readers’ Prize.

Winner

Kirsty Gunn, Infidelities (Faber & Faber)

Shortlist

• Madeleine D’Arcy, Waiting for the Bullet (Doire Press)
• Carys Davies, The Temptation of Galen Pike (Salt)
• Toby Litt, Life-Like (Seagull Books)
• Anneliese Mackintosh, Any Other Mouth (Freight)
• Rose Tremain, The American Lover (Chatto & Windus)

Madeleine D’arcy won the Readers’ Prize.

Winner

Kevin Barry, Dark Lies the Island (Jonathan Cape)

Shortlist

• Emma Donoghue, Astray (Pan Macmillan)
• Adam Marek, The Stone Thrower (Comma Press)
• Jon McGregor, This Isn’t The Sort Of Thing That Happens To Someone Like You (Bloomsbury)
• Jane Rogers,  Hitting Trees With Sticks (Comma Press)
• Lucy Wood, Diving Belles (Bloomsbury)