BBC National Short Story Award 2025Colwill Brown won the twentieth anniversary BBC National Short Story Award with Cambridge University for 'You Cannot Thead a Moving Needle', a story praised for its “startling prose” and “astonishing” voice. BBC Young Writers’ Award 2025The winner of the BBC Young Writers’ Award with Cambridge University 2025 was announced alongside the NSSA. Lauren Layfield, Chair of Judges, said:“Despite hundreds of incredible entries for the Young Writers Award 2025, it was Scouse’s Run that I couldn’t stop thinking about. About the awardsThe BBC National Short Story Award with Cambridge University was established in 2006 and is one of the most prestigious awards for a single short story. The BBC Young Writers’ Award with Cambridge University was created in 2015 to discover and inspire the next generation of short story writers.