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Irenosen Okajie

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Short Works: BBC National Short Story Award 2018: Synsepalum

19/09/2018

Synsepalum

BBC National Short Story Award 2018

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By Irenosen Okojie. A mysterious tailor makes fantastic frocks for his clients.

Five commissioned short stories to celebrate the BBC National Short Story Award. In Synsepalum by Irenosen Okojie, a mysterious tailor makes fantastic frocks for his clients.

Five commissioned short stories by leading writers to celebrate this year's BBC National Short Story Award:

In Synsepalum by Irenosen Okojie, the tailor in a pop-up atelier makes eye-catching dresses for his adoring clients - 'the designs rose from dark undulating slipstreams as if in resurrection'. But there is a price to pay for this adulation..

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Producer Duncan Minshull

Short Works: BBC National Short Story Award 2018

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Five short stories commissioned to accompany the BBC National Short Story Award 2018.

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