An annual award of £1,000 for a short story, financed by a bequest made by Miss Nellie Tom-Gallon in memory of her brother and generously supported by ALCS.

The 2022 award is now open for submissions!

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• Deadline for entries: 31 October 2021
• The author must be ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom, Commonwealth or the Republic of Ireland.
• The author must have had at least one short story published or accepted for publication.
• The story submitted must be in English and must not be a translation.
• The story submitted may be published or unpublished.
• The work must not have been previously submitted for the ALCS Tom-Gallon Trust Award. 
• The work must not exceed 5,000 words.

For any queries relating to the prize please contact prizes@societyofauthors.org

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2021 Winner 
DM O'Connor for 'I Told You not to Fly so High'

2021 Runner-up
Sean Lusk for 'The Hopelessness of Hope'

ALCS Tom-Gallon Trust Award shortlist

• Maeve O'Lynn for 'Eventually Meeting the Sky Somewhere'
• Anne Aylor for ''The House of Wild Beats'
• Alison Littlewood for 'Swanskin'
• Dafydd Mills Daniel for 'What the Deal is'

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The ALCS Tom-Gallon Trust Award is generously supported by the Authors' Licensing and Collecting Society (ALCS).

 

 

 

Charity number 212405