The ALCS Tom-Gallon Trust Award is an annual award of £1,000 for a short story, financed by a bequest made by Nellie Tom-Gallon in memory of her brother, playwright and novelist

Tom Gallon Tom Gallon (5 December 1866 – 4 November 1914) was a British playwright and novelist. He was the brother of author and publicist Nellie Tom-Gallon, who founded the Tom-Gallon Trust Award Society of Authors The Society of Authors (SoA) is a United Kingdom trade union for professional writers, illustrators and literary translators, founded in 1884 to protect the rights and further the interests of authors. , it represents over 12,000 members and ass ...

."The Tom-Gallon Trust Award"
at The Society of Authors. Previous recipients include Man Booker Prize nominee Alison MacLeod, Simon van Booy and

Claire Keegan Claire Keegan (born 1968) is an Irish writer known for her short stories, which have been published in ''The New Yorker'', ''Best American Short Stories'', ''Granta'', and ''The Paris Review''. Biography Born in County Wicklow in 1968, Keegan i ...

List of Award winners

2020s

2023 * Winner: Ciarán Folan for 'A Day' * Runner-up: Karen Stevens for 'Among the Crows' 2022 * Winner: Kanya D’Almeida for I Cleaned The—''' * Runner-up: Dean Gessie for Head Smashed in Buffalo Jump''' 2021 * Winner: DM O'Connor for "I Told You not to Fly so High" * Runner-up: Sean Lusk for "The Hopelessness of Hope" 2020 * Winner: Wendy Riley for "Eva at the End of the World" * Runner-up: Diana Powell for "Whale Watching"

2010s

2019 * Winner: Dima Alzayat for "Once We Were Syrians" * Runner-up: Bunmi Ogunsiji for "Blessing" 2018 * Winner: Chris Connolly for , "The Speed of Light and How it Cannot Help Us" * Runner-up:

Benjamin Myers Benjamin Myers (born 14 May 1978) is an Australian theologian at Alphacrucis University College, and a research fellow of the Centre for Public and Contextual Theology at Charles Sturt University. From 2009 to 2017 Myers was a lecturer at Uni ...

for "A Thousand Acres of English Soil" 2017 * Winner: Frances Thimann for "Shells" * Runner-up: Becky Tipper for "The Rabbit" 2016 * Winner: Claire Harman for "Otherwise Engaged" * Runner-up:

Jessie Greengrass Jessie Greengrass (born 1982) is a British author. She won a Somerset Maugham Award and the Edge Hill Short Story Prize for her debut short story collection. Education and career Greengrass studied philosophy in Cambridge and London and now liv ...

for "Dolphin" 2015 * Winner: Maria C. McCarthy for "More Katharine Than Audrey" * Runner-up: Caroline Price for "Vin Rouge" 2014 * Winner:

for "The Folk Song Singer" * Runner-up: Claire Harman for "Poor Maggie Kirkpatrick" 2013 * Winner: Samuel Wright for "Best Friend" * Runner-up: Lucy Wood for "Wisht" 2011 * Emma Timpany for "The Pledge" * Runner-up: Miriam Burke for "A Splash of Words" 2010 * Winner: Carys Davies for "The Quiet" * Runners-up: Susannah Rickards for "The Paperback Macbeth" and Simon Van Booy for "Little Birds"

2000s

2009 * Winner: Rosemary Mairs for "My Father's Hands" * Runner-up: Huw Lawrence for "Keeping On" 2008 * Alison MacLeod for "Dirty Weekend" 2007 *

for "The Parting Gift" 2006 * Bethan Roberts for "An Elephant in the Thames" 2005 * Colette Paul for "O Tell me the Truth About Love" 2004 *

for "Men and Women" 2003 * Judith Ravenscroft for "As She Waited for Spring" 2001 * Paul Blaney for "Apple Tennis"

1990s

1999 * Grace Ingoldby for "The Notion of Deuce" 1996 * Leo Madigan for "Packing for Wednesday" 1994 * Janice Fox for "A Good Place to Die" 1992 * David Callard for "Reading the Signals" 1990 * Richard Austin for "Sister Monica's Last Journey"

1980s

1988 * Alan Beard for "Taking Doreen Out of the Sky" 1986 * Lawrence Scott for "The House of Funerals" 1984 * Janni Howker for "The Egg Man" 1982 *

Dermot Healy Dermot Healy (9 November 1947 – 29 June 2014) was an Irish novelist, playwright, poet and short story writer. A member of Aosdána, Healy was also part of its governing body, the Toscaireacht. Born in Finea, County Westmeath, he lived in ...

for "The Tenant" 1980 * Alan McConnell for "The Comrades Marathon"

1970s

1978 * Michael Morrissey for "An Evening with Ionesco" 1976 * Jackson Webb for "Vassili" 1974 * Neilson Graham for "Anscombe" 1972 * Kathleen Julian for "Catch Two" 1970 * A. Craig Bell for "The Nest / Aileen Pennington The Princess and the Pussy-cat"

1960s

1966 * Gillian Edwards for "An Evening in September" 1964 * Peter Greave for "The Wonderful Day / Jean Stubbs A Child's Four Seasons"

1950s

1959 * Harold Elvin for "God's Right Hand Upon My Shoulder" 1957 * E. W. Hildick for "A Casual Visit" 1955 * Robert Roberts for "Conducted Tour" 1953 *

Maurice Cranston __NOTOC__ Maurice William Cranston (8 May 1920 – 5 November 1993) was a British philosopher, professor and author. He served for many years as Professor of Political Science at the London School of Economics, and was also known for his pop ...

for "A Visit to the Author" 1951 *

Fred Urquhart Frederick Albert Urquhart, (December 13, 1911 – November 3, 2002) was a Canadians, Canadian zoologist and professor of zoology who studied the migration of Monarch butterfly, monarch butterflies, ''Danaus plexippus'' L. Together with his w ...

for "The Ploughing Match"

1940s

1949 *

Olivia Manning Olivia Mary Manning (2 March 1908 – 23 July 1980) was a British novelist, poet, writer, and reviewer. Her fiction and non-fiction, frequently detailing journeys and personal odysseys, were principally set in the United Kingdom, Euro ...

for "The Children" 1947 * Dorothy K. Haynes for "The Head" 1945 * Jack Aistrop for "Death in the Midst of What" 1943 * Elizabeth Myers for "A Well Full of Leaves"

References

{{reflist Short story awards