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[1] [2] It has been described as "one of the most prestigious [awards] for a single short story" [3] and the richest prize in the world for a single short story. [4] The award aims to increase interest in the short story genre, particularly British short stories. [2] As of 2017, the winner receives £15,000 and four shortlisted writers receive ...
Laird set up The Ethiopian Story Collecting Project in 1996 in collaboration with Michael Sargent, the British Council in Ethiopia and the Ethiopian Ministry of Education with the aim of creating reading materials in English for use in Ethiopian schools. Stories were collected in every region, amounting to over 300 in total.
The BBC National Short Story Award is an annual short story contest in the United Kingdom which is open to UK residents and nationals. [2] [3] It aims to increase interest in the short story genre, particularly British short stories. [3] As of 2017, the winner receives £15,000 and four shortlisted writers receive £600 each.
Children's short stories are fiction stories, generally under 100 pages long, written for children. Subcategories This category has the following 4 subcategories, out of 4 total.
Three Indian Goddesses and Three Indian Princesses are collections of short stories based around Indian legends. Nine other short stories were collected as The Magic Orange Tree and Other Stories . Grandpa Chatterji is a series for younger children, named after its first book, which was adapted for television in 1997. [ 11 ]
Short Stories from Hogwarts of Power, Politics and Pesky Poltergeists; Slow Birds and Other Stories; A Spaceship Built of Stone and Other Stories; A Spaniard in the Works; Stay of Execution (short story collection) Stranger in the House: The Collected Short Supernatural Fiction, Volume One; The Stratagem and other Stories; The Sunny Side
The Famous Five is a series of children's adventure novels and short stories written by English author Enid Blyton. The first book, Five on a Treasure Island, was published in 1942. The novels feature the adventures of a group of young children – Julian, Dick, Anne, George and their dog Timmy.
Gardam's first book was a children's novel, A Long Way From Verona, a 13-year-old girl's first-person narrative, it was published in 1971. [7] It won the Phoenix Award from the Children's Literature Association in 1991, which recognizes the best children's book published twenty years earlier that did not win a major award. [8]