Best British Short Stories 2024

Best British Short Stories invites you to judge a book by its cover – or more accurately, by its title. This new series aims to reprint the best short stories published in the previous calendar year by British writers, whether based in the UK or elsewhere.

The nation’s favourite annual guide to the short story, now in its fourteenth year

Inspired by Giles Gordon and David Hughes’s Best Short Stories series, which ran to ten volumes between 1986 and 1995, Best British Short Stories this year reaches its fourteenth volume.

Best British Short Stories 2024 showcases an excellent and varied selection of stories, by British writers, first published during 2023 in magazines, journals, anthologies, collections, chapbooks and online.

‘If the latest iteration of Salt’s Best British Short Stories collection is anything to go by then the genre remains in safe hands.’ —Lawrence Foley, TLS

Featuring stories by: Alan Beard, Kevin Boniface, Paul Brownsey, Claire Carroll, ECM Cheung, Jonathan Coe, Rosie Garland, Kerry Hadley-Pryce, Timothy Jarvis, Cynan Jones, Bhanu Kapil, Sonya Moor, Alison Moore, Gregory Norminton, Nicholas Royle, Cherise Saywell, Kamila Shamsie, Ben Tufnell, Charlotte Turnbull and Cate West.

Contributor: Nicholas Royle (Series edited by), Alan Beard (Contributions by), Kevin Boniface (Contributions by), Paul Brownsey (Contributions by), Claire Carroll (Contributions by), ECM Cheung (Contributions by), Jonathan Coe (Contributions by), Rosie Garland (Contributions by), Kerry Hadley-Pryce (Contributions by), Timothy J Jarvis (Contributions by), Cynan Jones (Contributions by), Bhanu Kapil (Contributions by), Sonya Moor (Contributions by), Alison Moore (Contributions by), Gregory Norminton (Contributions by), Nicholas Royle (Contributions by), Cherise Saywell (Contributions by), Kamila Shamsie (Contributions by), Ben Tufnell (Contributions by), Charlotte Turnbull (Contributions by), Cate West (Contributions by)

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