Best of the international Willesden Short Story Prize 2022

Tales and fables set variously in Bangladesh, Britain, Estonia, Ireland, Jamaica, Switzerland, Ukraine, with some spanning multiple locations from India, Israel and parts of Africa to the United States. Everything from the intensely personal to the epic and historical, from family crises to surreal relationships. There is strangeness, there is passion, there are flashes of humour, pathos, reflection and "news of the world".

Short fiction by David Butler, Helen Harjak, Catherine McNamara, Andy Mead, Jackie Morris, Diana Powell, Peter Newall, Anju Sharma, Lui Sit, Zakia Uddin. With an introduction by Jarred McGinnis.