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Short Stories
RA Exhibitions
3 years ago
The Portrait: a short story inspired by Hockney
How can a portrait describe the relationship between an artist and a sitter? How does that differ in a written portrait? In our creative writing course, participants were asked to take inspiration from our current Hockney Portraits exhibition to create a short story.
RA Exhibitions
3 years ago
Podcast: Juliet Stevenson reads the winning entry of the RA & Pin Drop Short Story Award
The RA hosted the second RA and Pin Drop Short Story Award. Here, Juliet Stevenson reads A Quiet Tidy Man by Claire Fuller.
Inside the Academy
> 3 years ago
Podcast: short stories with Ben Okri
In partnership with Pin Drop, Booker Prize-winning author Ben Okri reads one of his short stories.
Inside the Academy
< 4 years ago
Podcast: short stories with Will Self
In partnership with Pin Drop, the highly acclaimed and award-winning author Will Self read his short story, ‘The Shore’.
Inside the Academy
4 years ago
Podcast: Stephen Fry reads the winning story of the RA & Pin Drop Short Story Award
The RA hosted the inaugural RA and Pin Drop Short Story Award. Here, Stephen Fry reads a story of youthful first love.
RA Exhibitions
> 4 years ago
Podcast: short stories with Sebastian Faulks
Award-winning and best-selling novelist Sebastian Faulks CBE reads a short story selected in response to our ‘Rubens and His Legacy’ exhibition.
Inside the Academy
< 5 years ago
Short stories with Graham Swift
The Booker Prize-winning author of ‘Waterland’ and ‘Last Orders’ reads from his latest collection ‘England and Other Stories’. In partnership with Pin Drop.
Inside the Academy
< 5 years ago
Short stories with Lionel Shriver
Orange Prize-winning novelist Lionel Shriver treats us to a short story reading.
Inside the Academy
5 years ago
Short stories with Tim Winton
Internationally esteemed novelist Tim Winton reads from his collection of short stories ‘The Turning’.
RA Exhibitions
> 5 years ago
Short stories with William Boyd and Ed Stoppard
William Boyd and Ed Stoppard read short stories in the galleries of ‘Sensing Spaces’.