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. 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 and is administered by the Society of Authors. Previous recipients include Man Booker Prize nominee Alison MacLeod, Simon van Booy and Claire Keegan.

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
2017
  • Winner: Frances Thimann for "Shells"
  • Runner-up: Becky Tipper for "The Rabbit"
2016
2015
  • Winner: Maria C. McCarthy for "More Katharine Than Audrey"
  • Runner-up: Caroline Price for "Vin Rouge"
2014
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
2007
2006
2005
2004
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
1994
  • Janice Fox for "A Good Place to Die"
1992
  • David Callard for "Reading the Signals"
1990

1980s

1988
  • Alan Beard for "Taking Doreen Out of the Sky"
1986
1984
1982
1980

1970s

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

1966
  • Gillian Edwards for "An Evening in September"
1964

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
1951

1940s

1949
1947
1945
  • Jack Aistrop for "Death in the Midst of What"
1943