Preston author Jenn Ashworth has been shortlisted for the BBC National Short Story Award.
Jenn is a Betty Trask Award winner, and she has been nominated for her story ‘Flat 19’.
The shortlist was announced on BBC Radio 4’s Front Row show on Thursday 15th September. The list is dominated by five of the UK’s most original and imaginative writers, heralds a ‘new vanguard of British writing’ drawn from different disciplines – from music to poetry to crime writing. “Our five shortlisted stories are fine examples of this talent. Their subject matters are varied – step-families, road-trips through America, AI clones, a post-apocalyptic love affair, and urban knife crime – but they are connected by a surety of touch.
Elizabeth Day is joined on this year’s judging panel by Costa First Novel Award winning novelist Ingrid Persaud; writer, poet and editor, Will Harris; Booker Prize shortlisted novelist and Professor of Creative Writing, Gerard Woodward; and returning judge Di Speirs, Books Editor at BBC Audio.
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