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Final Score by Sean Lusk (the 2025 HWA Dorothy Dunnett Short Story winner)

24 December 2025 By Sean Lusk

Sean Lusk’s Final Score won the 2025 HWA Dorothy Dunnett Short Story Competition. It’s with great pleasure that we publish it here in Historia. The competition judges called it: “A brilliantly-crafted and poignant story set in the wake of WWI. The dry, courageous narrator delivers a heart-rending and thought-provoking story of a veteran playing piano […]

The 2025 HWA Dorothy Dunnett Short Story Competition winner and shortlist

3 October 2025 By Frances Owen

It gives us great pleasure to announce the winning and shortlisted stories in the 2025 Historical Writers’ Association (HWA) Dorothy Dunnett Short Story Competition. The winning story in the 2025 HWA Dorothy Dunnett Short Story Competition The winner of the 2025 HWA Dorothy Dunnett Short Story Competition: Final Score by Sean LuskThe judges say: “A […]

The HWA Dorothy Dunnett Short Story Competition longlist for 2025

24 September 2025 By Frances Owen

We’re delighted to announce the longlist for the 2025 Historical Writers’ Association (HWA) Dorothy Dunnett Short Story Competition: 25 impressive pieces of historical short fiction which go through to the next round of judging. Congratulations to all the longlisted authors! The HWA Dorothy Dunnett Short Story Competition 2025 longlist: Iko of Benin, King’s Diver by […]

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