The Sunday Times Short Story Award, also known as the Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award and later the Sunday Times Audible Short Story Award, was a British literary award for a single short story open to any novelist or short story writer from around the world who was published in the UK or Ireland.
The award was established in 2010 by Cathy Galvin of The Sunday Times newspaper and Sir Matthew Evans of EFG Private Bank (and formerly of Faber and Faber).
[5] It has been called the richest prize in the world for a single short story.
The Bookseller reported in July 2022 that the prize was "in danger of being discontinued" as Audible had withdrawn their sponsorship the previous year.
At that time Andrew Holgate, literary editor of the Sunday Times, said that the prize had had to be delayed for a year as no replacement sponsor had been found.