We’re delighted to announce the longlist for the 2022 Historical Writers’ Association Dorothy Dunnett Society Short Story Competition.
“2022 has proved another really strong year for the HWA DDS Short Story Competition with stories which took us from Homeric times to the 1980s. All of the stories long listed are fresh, engaging works and our final-round judges have savoured each and every one,” says HWA Chair Imogen Robertson.
“Huge thanks to our first-round judges for all their work and thank you to everyone who entered. It was very difficult to select only 25 from the fantastic stories submitted to the competition.”
The HWA Dorothy Dunnett Short Story Competition 2022 longlist:
Sugar Plum by Lucy Ashe
Uncertain Terms by Juno Baker
Terrible Wife by Briony Bax
Fortuna Redux by Thea Burgess
Featherweight by Andrew Burnet
The Stuff of which Fairytales Are Made by Georgina Clarke
Binkie by Chris Cottom
Freedom’s Fires by Malina Douglas
The Coachman’s Tale by Stuart Fortey
Forever Mine by Bradford Gyori
Screaming Dogfight with the Light by Richard Hooton
The Whole of the Moon by John Irving Clarke
The Quill Pen Maker’s Apprentice by Dee La Vardera
The Dinner Bell by Patrick Larsimont
The Prince and the Pardieri by Kate MacCarthy
Assumption Day by Lourdes Mackey
Sins of Pride by Sarah Matthews
Homecoming by Ruth Moore
The Selkie’s Gift by Catherine Ogston
The Tangerine Queen by Hilary Orme
Beasts of Holm by Willie Orr
Careme and the Crime of the Century by Emma Seaman
Collapse by Chrissy Sturt
The Tale of Mud-Mary by Valerie Thompson
I Have a Name by Frances Turner
Congratulations to all the longlisted authors!
The shortlisted stories, which will be published as an anthology at the end of this year, will be announced on the HWA website on 4 October, 2022. We’ll also announce the winner and the two highly commended stories on that date. They’ll also be mentioned on Twitter and Facebook (#HWADD22).
All the longlisted authors are invited to the HWA awards ceremony in November 2022.
Full details are on the HWA website.
Past winners of the HWA Dorothy Dunnett Short Story Prize:
2021: His Mother’s Quilt by Naomi Kelsey
2020: The Race by Alice Fowler
2019: The Daisy Fisher by Kate Jewell
2018: Nineteen Above Discovery by Jennifer Falkner
2017: A Poppy Against the Sky by Annie Whitehead
