Pin Drop Studio is an arts and entertainment studio founded in 2012 by Simon Oldfield and Elizabeth Day, with a particular focus on short fiction. Pin Drop Studio publishes short fiction, stages an annual short story award for new writing in association with the

Royal Academy of Arts The Royal Academy of Arts (RA) is an art institution based in Burlington House on Piccadilly in London. Founded in 1768, it has a unique position as an independent, privately funded institution led by eminent artists and architects. Its purpo ...

, has a podcast series and hosts live events in major cities around the globe with authors, actors, artists, cultural commentators and original thinkers. Pin Drop Productions commissions original fiction from new and established writers.

Books

''A Short Affair'' is an anthology of original short fiction from Pin Drop Studio, published in hard-back in July 2018 by Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, and edited by Simon Oldfield. The book contains eighteen original short stories by best-selling authors alongside new writers from the annual Pin Drop Short Story Award, with a foreword by

Tim Marlow Timothy John Marlow (born 1962) is a British writer, broadcaster and art historian who is the Director and Chief Executive of the Design Museum,Hannah McGivern (October 7, 2019)Tim Marlow leaves Royal Academy of Arts to head London’s Design Mu ...

. The cover design is by

White Cube White Cube is a contemporary art gallery founded by Jay Jopling in London in 1993. The gallery has two branches in London: White Cube Mason's Yard in central London and White Cube Bermondsey in South East London; White Cube Hong Kong, in Centra ...

artist Eddie Peake, and each story is accompanied by a unique contemporary artwork, created by artists from the Royal Academy Schools. A sequel to ''A Short Affair'' is in development.

Pin Drop Short Story Award

The Pin Drop Short Story Award is an annual writing prize for new original short stories. It is a free-to-enter, non-commercial, open-submission competition for both published and unpublished writers, and receives over 500 entries each year from writers across the globe. Regular judges of the award include the artistic director of the Royal Academy,

, along with the Pin Drop founders, Simon Oldfield and Elizabeth Day. The winning story is presented each year at a ceremony at the Royal Academy, where it is read in full to a live audience by a notable actor. Previous award winners: 2015 - author

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won with her short story, "Ms. Featherstone and the Beast", which was read to a live audience by Stephen Fry. 2016 - author

Claire Fuller Claire Fuller (born 9 February 1967 in Oxfordshire) is an English author. She won the 2015 Desmond Elliott Prize for her first novel, '' Our Endless Numbered Days'', the BBC Opening Lines Short Story Competition in 2014, and the Royal Academy & ...

won with her story, "A Quiet Tidy Man", which was read to a live audience by British actress Juliet Stevenson. 2017 - author Cherise Saywell won with her story, "Morelia Spilota", which was read to a live audience by British actress and Downton Abbey star Dame Penelope Wilton. 2018 - author and actress Sophie Ward won with her story, "Sunbed", which was read to a live audience by British actress and

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star Gwendoline Christie.

Pin Drop Podcasts

Pin Drop Podcasts is a series of live audio recordings of original short fiction and interviews with notable authors and actors, made available free of charge.

Short fiction portfolio

Pin Drop Productions holds the rights to a library of original short fiction and regularly commissions writers to produce new stories for publication and for film and TV adaptation.

Pin Drop Live

Pin Drop Live stages events at venues such as BAFTA, the Royal Academy, Hauser & Wirth Somerset and Soho House in London, New York, Los Angeles, Paris and other major cities. Typically an original story is read in its entirety to a live audience by an author, actor, artist or thinker, followed by an interview. Guest readers have included, Stephen Fry, Ben Okri, Russell Tovey, Juliet Stevenson, Sebastian Faulks,

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, Julian Barnes,

Richard Dawkins Richard Dawkins (born 26 March 1941) is a British evolutionary biologist and author. He is an emeritus fellow of New College, Oxford and was Professor for Public Understanding of Science in the University of Oxford from 1995 to 2008. An ath ...

, Princess Julia,

Selma Blair Selma Blair Beitner (born June 23, 1972) is an American actress. She played a number of roles in films and on television before obtaining recognition for her leading role in the film '' Brown's Requiem'' (1998). Her breakthrough came when she s ...

, A.L.Kennedy, Dame Sian Phillips,

Dame Eileen Atkins Dame Eileen June Atkins, (born 16 June 1934), is an English actress and occasional screenwriter. She has worked in the theatre, film, and television consistently since 1953. In 2008, she won the BAFTA TV Award for Best Actress and the Emmy Aw ...

, Dame Penelope Wilton, Tom Rob Smith, Peter Blake, Gwendoline Christie, Will Self, Maura Tierney,

Graham Swift Graham Colin Swift FRSL (born 4 May 1949) is an English writer. Born in London, England, he was educated at Dulwich College, London, Queens' College, Cambridge, and later the University of York. Career Some of Swift's books have been filmed, ...

Sue Tilley Sue Tilley (born 1957), also known as Big Sue, is a British artist's model and writer. She modelled for painter Lucian Freud. Born in south London, Tilley worked for performance artist and club promoter Leigh Bowery as a cashier at his "Taboo" n ...

, Molly Parkin, Tuppence Middleton, David Nicholls, Ed Stoppard, and Curtis Sittenfeld.

References

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External links

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