2021
Winner: Kevin Barry That Old Country Music (Canongate)
2021 short story prize winner Kevin Barry
Readers Prize: Alice Ash Paradise Block (Serpent’s Tail/Profile)
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)
2020
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.
2019
Winner: David Szalay, Turbulence (Cape)
EHU Short Story Prize 2019 at Waterstone’s, Piccadilly, London on 25th October 2019.
Short List
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 (4th Estate)
2018
Winner: Tessa Hadley, Bad Dreams (Cape)
Short List
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)
2017
Winner: Daisy Johnson, Fen (Cape)
Photographed by David P Scott. All rights reserved.
Short List
Lucy Caldwell, Multitudes (Faber)
Irenosen Okjie, Speak Gigantular (Jacaranda)
K.J. Orr, Light Box (Daunt)
Joanna Walsh, Vertigo (And Other Stories)
2016
Winner: Jessie Greengrass, An Account of the Decline Of The Great Auk, According To One Who Saw It (John Murray Press)
Short List
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 )
2015
Winner: Kirsty Gunn, Infidelities (Faber & Faber)
Short List
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)
2014
Winner: John Burnside, Something Like Happy (Jonathan Cape)
Short List
Jaki McCarrick, The Scattering (Seren Books)
Bernie McGill, Sleepwalkers (Whittrick Press)
David Rose, Posthumous Stories (Salt)
Rachel Trezise, Cosmic Latte (Parthian)
2013
Winner: Kevin Barry, Dark Lies the Island (Jonathan Cape)
Short List
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)
2012
Winner: Sarah Hall, The Beautiful Indifference (Faber & Faber)
Short List
A.J. Ashworth, Somewhere Else or Even Here (Salt)
Tessa Hadley, Married Love (Jonathan Cape)
Rowena Macdonald, Smoked Meat (Flambard)
Zoe Lambert, The War Tour (Comma)
2011
Winner: Graham Mort, Touch (Seren)
Short List
Michèle Roberts, Mud, Stories and Sex and Love (Virago)
Polly Samson, Perfect Lives (Virago)
Helen Simpson, In-flight Entertainment (Jonathan Cape)
Tom Vowler, The Method (Salt Publishing)
2010
Winner: Jeremy Dyson, The Cranes that Build the Cranes (Abacus)
Short List
Jane Feaver, Love Me Tender (Vintage)
A.L. Kennedy, What Becomes (Vintage)
Nuala Ni Conchuir, Nude (Salt )
Robert Shearman, Love Songs for the Shy & Cynical (Big Finish)
2009
Winner: Chris Beckett, The Turing Test (Elastic)
Short List
Gerard Donovan, Country of the Grand (Faber)
Anne Enright, Yesterday’s Weather (Cape)
Shena Mackay, The Atmospheric Railway (Cape)
Ali Smith, The First Person and Other Stories (Hamish Hamilton)
2008
Winner: Claire Keegan, Walk the Blue Fields (Faber & Faber)
Short List
Christopher Fowler, Old Devil Moon (Serpent’s Tail)
Jane Gardam The People on Privilege Hill (Little Brown)
Simon Robson The Separate Heart (Vintage)
Robert Shearman Tiny Deaths (Comma Press)
2007
Winner: Colm Tóibín, Mothers and Sons (Picador)
Short List
Neil Gaiman, Fragile Things (Headline Review)
Jackie Kay, Wish I Was Here (Picador)
Nicholas Royle, Mortality (Serpent’s Tail)
Tamar Yellin, Kafka in Bronteland (Toby Press)