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

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 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

2009

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

2008

• Alison MacLeod for "Dirty Weekend"

2007

• Claire Keegan 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

• Claire Keegan 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 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 for "A Visit to the Author"

1951

• Fred Urquhart for "The Ploughing Match"

1940s

1949

• Olivia Manning 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

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