V. S. PRITCHETT LONGLIST ANNOUNCED 15 November 2021 THIS YEAR THE COMPETITION WAS JUDGED BY ROWAN HISAYO BUCHANAN, PAUL MCVEIGH AND EMMA JANE UNSWORTH. ALCS is delighted to announce that the judges have selected the following: Sophie Baker ‘Clay’ Owen Booth ‘Middle-Aged Sex Object’ Maureen Cullen ‘The Cailleach of Redgauntlet Close’ Rashad Hosein ‘Aji’ B Johnson ‘Idolatry’ Toby Lloyd ‘Bagatelles’ Amanda Mason ‘Three Times, Lefthandwise’ Maeve Mulrennan ‘Known To The Gardaí’ Emer O’Hanlon ‘Savior Complex’ Leeor Ohayon ‘Gahnun on Shabbat’ Penny Simpson ‘until your wild world ends’ Jacqueline Yallop ‘Dry Stone’ The 2021 shortlist will be announced on 24 November and the winner on 15 December. The V.S. Pritchett Short Story Prize was founded by the Royal Society of Literature in 1999, and ALCS has been a proud sponsor for several years. The prize of £1,000 goes to the best unpublished short story of the year, and the winning entry will be published in Prospect magazine online and in the RSL Review. Kate Lockwood Jefford won the 2020 V. S. Pritchett Short Story Prize with ‘Picasso’s Face’. Other previous winners have included Emily Ruth Ford, Jonathan Tel, Martina Devlin and Carys Davies. CONTACT US FAQS VIDEO TUTORIALS CONTACT US Fifth Floor, Shackleton House, 4 Battle Bridge Lane, London SE1 2HX 020 7264 5700 LEGAL NOTICECOOKIESPERSONAL DATA AND PRIVACY POLICY © 2021. Authors' Licensing and Collecting Society. All rights reserved. Made by Outlandish OUR USE OF COOKIES We use necessary cookies to make our site work. These are essential for you to browse our website and enable core functionality such as accessing the secure area of the ALCS site. We’d also like to set analytics cookies that help us make improvements by measuring how you use the site. These will be set only if you accept. For more detailed information about the cookies we use, see our Cookies page. ALLOW ALL COOKIESONLY ALLOW NECESSARY COOKIES