Praised by judges as ‘genuinely thrilling’, The Edge of the Shoal takes prestigious £15,000 honour
Read Cynan Jones’s winning story here
Welsh writer Cynan Jones’s “perfect” and “terrifying” tale of a man lost at sea, The Edge of the Shoal, has won the £15,000 BBC national short story award.
Jones’s entry was announced as the winner of the award on Tuesday evening, beating stories by authors including Helen Oyeyemi and Jenni Fagan. It tells of a man who sets out to scatter his father’s ashes from a kayak, leaving a note for his pregnant partner: “Pick salad x.” He is caught up in a storm and finds himself injured, adrift and struggling to survive.
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