‘Gahnun on Shabbat’ by current UEA student Leeor Ohayon has won the 2021 Royal Society of Literature V.S. Pritchett Short Story Prize. Leeor (pictured) is a writer and photographer based in north east London and a part-time student on the MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) at UEA. He is due to graduate in 2022. Earlier this year he was shortlisted for the Brick Lane Bookshop Short Story Prize and was the winner of the Leicester Writes Short Story Prize. The V.S. Pritchett Short Story Prize is worth £1,000, and Leeor’s story will be published in Prospect Magazine and the RSL Review. UEA alumna Emily Ruth Ford won the prize in 2017 and 2018. Grace Brown, a graduate of the MFA, was shortlisted in 2017.
Leeor Ohayon wins V.S. Pritchett Short Story Prize
