Many congratulations to the writers longlisted in our 2022 Award and big thanks to all those from around the world who entered. Sometimes titles are duplicated among entries and you will have received an email from us to confirm it is your story listed. You are welcome to share that you are longlisted on social media and elsewhere, but as judging is still in process, we ask you not to link your name with your story. Thank you.
| 2021 Bath Short Story Award Long List | |
|---|---|
| TITLE | AUTHOR |
| Acts of love on the 17.22 from Bristol Temple Meads | tba |
| All That Remains is Hope | tba |
| After the Good Shepherd’s Laundry, Buffalo | tba |
| A Good Night | tba |
| Beast | tba |
| Becoming a Ninja | tba |
| Bird of Paradise | tba |
| Bitty Vee | tba |
| Cock o’The North | tba |
| Dead Dog | tba |
| Don’t Step on the Cracks | tba |
| Extending the Olive Branch | tba |
| Flatmates | tba |
| Ham’s Place | tba |
| Hidden | tba |
| His Last Mandolin | tba |
| Hydrangea | tba |
| I Can’t Hear You | tba |
| Indian Tree | tba |
| Knowing the Enemy | tba |
| Landfill | tba |
| Looking for Anna | tba |
| My friend Jake | tba |
| Nine Storeys High | tba |
| Nobody believes a woman named Joanne | tba |
| Obituary Notice | tba |
| Only Me | tba |
| Park Life | tba |
| Polbo á Feira | tba |
| Raju and the Tiger | tba |
| Ratty | tba |
| Sophia Goes Bowling at 3.AM | tba |
| Starling Boy | tba |
| Stick People | tba |
| Still Life With Lemon | tba |
| Swimming Upstream | tba |
| The Ant House | tba |
| The Census Worker | tba |
| The Ghosts That Dance Between Us | tba |
| The Greenland Shark | tba |
| The Guising | tba |
| The Making of Koupepia | tba |
| The Neverending Picnic | tba |
| The Omiyage Maker of Yamanashi | tba |
| The Top Road | tba |
| The Vocabulary Builder of Utopia Gardens | tba |
| We are nothing more than birds | tba |
| Yellow Rose Fever | tba |
| Your_Bed | tba |