In association wit Pin Drop, the RA hosts regular events with leading novelists. From Sebastian Faulks to Ben Okri, listen to short stories from your favourite writers.



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tim winton

tim winton short story

Booker prize shortlisted Tim Winton talks to his editor about his novel Eyrie, and reads from the opening scene - in which Keely, his main character, has a large hangover. Find out more about the book at http://www.picador.com/books/eyrie.

Tim Winton talks about his novel Eyrie

Auckland Writers Festival 2015
Tim Winton is a leading exponent of short and long form fiction. Most recently the Guardian reviewed his novel Eyrie as “a superb tale of disillusionment and redemption, loss and beauty” – a description that could equally apply to his other novels including Cloud Street, Dirt Music, The Turning and Breath. Fiction aside, Winton has written on class, hospitals and the “chronically underrated” Western Australian town of Albany. He is in conversation with Jim Mora.

An Hour With Tim Winton

Award-winning and best-selling novelist Sebastian Faulks CBE reads a short story selected in response to ‘Rubens and His Legacy: Van Dyck to Cézanne’. In association with Pin Drop.

Image caption: Sebastian Faulks / Photo: Muir Vidler

Short Stories with Sebastian Faulks

The RA hosted the inaugural RA and Pin Drop Short Story Award. Here, Stephen Fry reads a story of youthful first love.
Bethan Roberts’s short story, Ms. Featherstone and The Beast, was voted unanimously by the judges as the winner of the inaugural RA and Pin Drop Short Story Award. The panel included Pin Drop co-founders Elizabeth Day and Simon Oldfield, and the RA’s Director of Artistic Programmes, Tim Marlow.

RA and Pin Drop Short Story Award with Stephen Fry

Internationally esteemed novelist Tim Winton reads from his collection of short stories ‘The Turning’.

Image caption: Tim Winton, Photo: Hank Kordas.

Short stories with Tim Winton

A short story reading by Graham Swift, the Booker Prize-winning author of ‘Waterland’ and ‘Last Orders'. In partnership with Pin Drop, a unique initiative that communicates the unforgettable power of storytelling in inspiring settings.

Image caption: Graham Swift / Image courtesy Simon + Schuster

Short stories with Graham Swift

Will Self is the author of ten novels, five collections of shorter fiction, three novellas and five collections of non-fiction writing. His latest novel, Umbrella, was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and was described by The Daily Telegraph as, “Self’s most ambitious novel to date”. He regularly appears on television and is a frequent contributor to publications including The Guardian, The New York Times and the London Review of Books. Self also writes columns for New Statesman, The Observer and The Times.

In this podcast – in association with Pin Drop – Self reads his own short story, The Shore.

Photo: Roy Matthews

Short Stories with Will Self

Join us for a rare view of Tim Winton's imagination at work and play as the Miles Franklin Award winning author reveals the real characters and events behind his bestselling novels in this intimate discussion with ABC's Andrea Ho.

In Conversation With Tim Winton

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Short stories with Tim Winton

Royal Academy of Arts