Recently, for the eleventh time, ABR presented the Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize. This year the Prize attracted 1,428 entries, from thirty-six different countries. In a virtual ceremony last night, ABR named Camilla Chaudhary as the winner of this year’s Jolley Prize for her story titled ‘The Enemy, Asyndeton’. The judges – Melinda Harvey, Elizabeth Tan, and Gregory Day – described Chaudhary’s entry as ‘a delightful, nimble story; the characters bristle with life, and the dialogue is crisply rendered’. In today’s episode, listen to Camilla Chaudhary read her story in its entirety.

'Roads to roads: Bathos of the ordinary' by Grace Roodenrys
07:44

'Lemmings over a cliff: On political and publishing expediency' by Joel Deane
12:07

‘When universities mattered: Higher education in a country addicted to the plough’ by Stephen Garton
32:34