Tom-Gallon Trust Award

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 (1866–1914). The story should be traditional, not experimental, in character. The ALCS Tom-Gallon Trust Award is generously supported by the Authors' Licensing and Collecting Society (ALCS) and is administered by the Society of Authors.[1] Previous recipients include Man Booker Prize nominee Alison MacLeod, Simon van Booy and Claire Keegan.

List of Award winners

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2020s

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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

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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 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 for "Dolphin"

2015

  • Winner: Maria C. McCarthy for "More Katharine Than Audrey"
  • Runner-up: Caroline Price for "Vin Rouge"

2014

  • Winner: Benjamin Myers 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

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2009

  • Winner: Rosemary Mairs for "My Father's Hands"
  • Runner-up: Huw Lawrence for "Keeping On"

2008

2007

2006

  • Bethan Roberts for "An Elephant in the Thames"

2005

  • Colette Paul for "O Tell me the Truth About Love"

2004

2003

  • Judith Ravenscroft for "As She Waited for Spring"

2001

  • Paul Blaney for "Apple Tennis"

1990s

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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

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1988

  • Alan Beard for "Taking Doreen Out of the Sky"

1986

1984

1982

1980

  • Alan McConnell for "The Comrades Marathon"

1970s

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1978

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

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1966

  • Gillian Edwards for "An Evening in September"

1964

  • Peter Greave for "The Wonderful Day / Jean Stubbs A Child's Four Seasons"

1950s

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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

1951

1940s

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1949

1947

1945

  • Jack Aistrop for "Death in the Midst of What"

1943

References

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  1. ^ "The Tom-Gallon Trust Award" at The Society of Authors.