BBC National Short Story Award 2023

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The second in this year's BBC National Short Story Award with Cambridge University.

Nahel Tzegai reads Guests, the second story in this year's BBC National Short Story Award with Cambridge University.

Natalie is a young Australian woman, carefree and adrift. A mother, Bilen is a similarly young Eritrean woman, less carefree and adrift in a different way. The two neighbours live in close physical proximity, kept apart by a contested swimming pool. They are brought together by a shared coffee ceremony, but wider tensions percolate underneath the surface…

Reader: Nahel Tzegai has starred in Miracle Workers, The Swimmers and Cold Storage (forthcoming). Most recently she appeared at the National Theatre in Grenfell: in the words of survivors.

Writer: Cherise Saywell is author of two novels, Desert Fish and Twitcher. Her short stories have previously won the Pindrop, Mslexia and V.S. Pritchett prizes She currently works for the Royal Literary Fund's Bridge Project and lives in Edinburgh.

Producer: Ciaran Bermingham

BBC National Short Story Award: BBC National Short Story Award 2023

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The five stories in contention for this year's BBC National Short Story Award.

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