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the national short story prize
find out more about the new national short story prize funded by NESTA and supported by BBC Radio 4 and Prospect magazine

Learn from the master

Principles of a Story by Raymond Carver

This essay was published in the September 2005 edition of Prospect magazine, who have kindly allowed us to make it available to users of this web site.

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Reclaiming the story

You can also read an article by Alexander Linklater, deputy editor of Prospect, which accompanied the announcement of the National Short Story Prize

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celebrating the short story