Editing Short story (section)

== Awards ==
Prominent short story awards such as The [[Sunday Times EFG Private Bank Short Story Award|Sunday Times Short Story Award]], the [[BBC National Short Story Award]],<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/2QXsYTZYWZ40CTc8lbH0FdV/how-to-enter |title=The BBC National Short Story Award 2020 with Cambridge University |publisher=BBC Radio 4 |access-date=24 August 2021 }}</ref> the Royal Society of Literature's V.S. Pritchett Short Story Prize,<ref>{{cite web| url = https://rsliterature.org/award/v-s-pritchett-short-story-prize/| title = V. S. Pritchett Short Story Prize – Royal Society of Literature| date = 8 November 2017}}</ref> The London Magazine Short Story Prize,<ref>{{Cite web |title=The London Magazine Short Story Prize 2019 |url=https://www.thelondonmagazine.org/the-london-magazine-short-story-prize-2019/ |website=www.thelondonmagazine.org|date=6 November 2019 }}</ref> the Pin Drop Studio Short Story Award and many others attract hundreds of entries each year. Published and non-published writers take part, sending in their stories from around the world.<ref name="PinDrop">{{Cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/10831961/The-irresistible-rise-of-the-short-story.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220111/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/10831961/The-irresistible-rise-of-the-short-story.html |archive-date=2022-01-11 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=The irresistible rise of the short story. Pin Drop Studio|last=Baker|first=Sam|work=Daily Telegraph|date=2014-05-18|access-date=2018-03-21|language=en-GB|issn=0307-1235}}{{cbignore}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url= https://www.thebookseller.com/news/fuller-wins-royal-academy-pin-drop-short-story-prize-338201 |title=Fuller wins annual Royal Academy & Pin Drop short story prize |website = The Bookseller |last=Onwuemezi|first=Natasha |date=June 27, 2016|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://shortstoryaward.co.uk/articles/view/97 |title=The top short story competitions to enter |work = The Sunday Times Short Story Awards |date= 10 February 2017|language=en|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170816023001/https://shortstoryaward.co.uk/articles/view/97|archive-date=16 August 2017}}</ref>

In 2013, [[Alice Munro]] was awarded the [[Nobel Prize in Literature]]—her citation read "master of the contemporary short story."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/2013/summary/|title=The Nobel Prize in Literature 2013|website=NobelPrize.org|language=en-US|access-date=2019-04-16}}</ref> She said she hopes the award will bring readership for the short story, as well as recognising the short story for its own merit, rather than "something that people do before they write their first novel."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/2013/munro/25382-interview-with-alice-munro/|title=The Nobel Prize in Literature 2013|website=NobelPrize.org|language=en-US|access-date=2019-04-16}}</ref> Short stories were cited in the choice of other laureates as well: [[Paul Heyse]] in 1910 and [[Gabriel García Márquez]] in 1982.<ref name="Literature1910">{{cite web|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1910/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 1910|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=2008-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081011192641/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1910/index.html|archive-date=2008-10-11|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Literature1982">{{cite web|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1982/index.html|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 1982|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=2008-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081017212833/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1982/index.html|archive-date=2008-10-17|url-status=live}}</ref>