D W Wilson wins the BBC National Short Story Award 2011

PhD student becomes the youngest ever winner of the BBC National Short Story Award

At 26, D W Wilson has become the youngest ever winner of the prestigious BBC National Short Story Award for his story ‘The Dead Roads’. He was presented with a cheque for £15,000 by this year’s Chair of Judges, broadcaster Sue MacGregor, as the news was announced live on BBC Radio 4’s Front Row from an event at The Free Word Centre in central London.

Wilson was born and raised in British Columbia before coming to England as the recipient of the inaugural MAN Booker Prize Scholarship for the Creative Writing MA at the University of East Anglia, where he is now a PhD candidate in Creative and Critical Writing.

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