Huge congratulations to all our winning and commended writers in the International Bath Short Story Award, 2022. The winning and commended stories were selected by our judge, writer, editor and writing teacher, Paul McVeigh and the Local and Acorn Award prizes were chosen by the BSSA team. Read the comments on the stories in our judges’ report. These winning stories, along with all the other brilliant shortlisted stories, will be published in our ninth anthology, to be published by Ad Hoc Fiction in November 2022.
Monthly Archives: July 2022
Shortlisted writers’ bios, BSSA 2022
Congratulations to all the BSSA 2022 shortlisted writers, listed here in alphabetical order. In his general remarks, our shortlist judge Paul McVeigh said:
“The 2022 shortlist was strong. It speaks to the reputation of the Bath Short Story Prize that the stories had such variety in genre, plot and style with impressive quality and I very much enjoyed reading them.”
The 2022 anthology will be out in paperback and available from our publisher adhocfiction.com and from Amazon in January 2023. Continue reading
Shortlist BSSA 2022
Many congratulations to the writers shortlisted in our 2022 Award. Continue reading
Longlist BSSA 2022
Many congratulations to the writers longlisted in our 2022 Award and big thanks to all those from around the world who entered. Sometimes titles are duplicated among entries and you will have received an email from us to confirm it is your story listed. You are welcome to share that you are longlisted on social media and elsewhere, but as judging is still in process, we ask you not to link your name with your story. Thank you.
| 2021 Bath Short Story Award Long List | |
|---|---|
| TITLE | AUTHOR |
| Acts of love on the 17.22 from Bristol Temple Meads | tba |
| All That Remains is Hope | tba |
| After the Good Shepherd’s Laundry, Buffalo | tba |
| A Good Night | tba |
| Beast | tba |
| Becoming a Ninja | tba |
| Bird of Paradise | tba |
| Bitty Vee | tba |
| Cock o’The North | tba |
| Dead Dog | tba |
| Don’t Step on the Cracks | tba |
| Extending the Olive Branch | tba |
| Flatmates | tba |
| Ham’s Place | tba |
| Hidden | tba |
| His Last Mandolin | tba |
| Hydrangea | tba |
| I Can’t Hear You | tba |
| Indian Tree | tba |
| Knowing the Enemy | tba |
| Landfill | tba |
| Looking for Anna | tba |
| My friend Jake | tba |
| Nine Storeys High | tba |
| Nobody believes a woman named Joanne | tba |
| Obituary Notice | tba |
| Only Me | tba |
| Park Life | tba |
| Polbo á Feira | tba |
| Raju and the Tiger | tba |
| Ratty | tba |
| Sophia Goes Bowling at 3.AM | tba |
| Starling Boy | tba |
| Stick People | tba |
| Still Life With Lemon | tba |
| Swimming Upstream | tba |
| The Ant House | tba |
| The Census Worker | tba |
| The Ghosts That Dance Between Us | tba |
| The Greenland Shark | tba |
| The Guising | tba |
| The Making of Koupepia | tba |
| The Neverending Picnic | tba |
| The Omiyage Maker of Yamanashi | tba |
| The Top Road | tba |
| The Vocabulary Builder of Utopia Gardens | tba |
| We are nothing more than birds | tba |
| Yellow Rose Fever | tba |
| Your_Bed | tba |