The Galley Beggar Press
Short Story Prize 2023/24
THE WINNING STORY
Santa Fe | Max Lury
The SHORTLIST
Santa Fe | Max Lury
Twins | Sarah Messerschmidt
Maintenance | Benjamin Wal
THE LONGLIST
i was a girl runner | A. Arbor
The Muffin Man | Will Hall
The Perils of Sleeping on Your Back | Rabia Kapoor
A Family Gathering | K. Lockwood Jefford
Santa Fe | Max Lury
Twins | Sarah Messerschmidt
Spume of the Mouth | Ruby Opalka
Dirty Weekend | Laurence Pritchard
Seven, Eight, Nine | Mohini Singh
Maintenance | Benjamin Wal
Special mentions
‘Partisans’, Mirri Glasson Darling | ‘Chef Recommends’, Gavin Weale | ‘Wapiti Bull’, Rob Magnuson Smith | ‘Cusp’, Letty Butler | ‘Departures’, James Young | ‘A Polished Affair’, Chioma Iwunze-Ibiam | ‘Chiak Kantang’, Emilia Ong | ‘Citrus & Cedar’, Rory Thorp | ‘Mind the Gap’, Isabel Brooks' | ‘Last Boat to Eden’, Mithran Somasundrum | ‘The Day Came Fat’, Riddhi Dastidar